Publications

This top line summary provides a high-level overview of results from the 2020 Health and Lifestyles Survey (HLS). The HLS monitors short, medium, and long-term societal changes in attitudes, knowledge, and behaviours related to mental health and wellbeing, tobacco use, vaping, gambling, nutrition, alcohol, and sun exposure. The HLS also tracks changes in views about the social desirability and acceptability of various strategies to minimise harm from these risk factors and promote wellbeing. This summary focuses on the prevalence of these risk factors, exposure to harm, and strategies to minimise harm.

Te Hiringa Hauora's Research Framework is designed to guide and enable shared understanding of what best practice health promotion research in Aotearoa New Zealand is and what it seeks to achieve.

This report is the third in a series of reports about the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on New Zealanders’ habits and behaviours. Based on survey results, it examines changes in alcohol drinking, smoking, vaping and gambling behaviours during the August/September 2021 lockdown.

This report explores the complex social and cultural reasons that Māori may be less likely to engage with childhood vaccination services. Delayed immunisation is a factor strongly associated with increasing rate of infectious diseases.

The Health and Lifestyles Survey (HLS) is a biennial monitor of the health behaviour and attitudes of New Zealand adults aged 16 years and over, first carried out in 2008. The HLS uses face-to-face interviews to collect information relating to Te Hiringa Hauora programme areas of alcohol, tobacco control, sun safety, minimising gambling harm, nutrition, and mental wellbeing.