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2020 Health and Lifestyles Survey: Top line

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.

First 1,000 Days

Ngā Wānanga o Hine Kōpū Evaluation Summary Report

Evidence is building in support of an antenatal programme from Northland that is setting an example for nationwide maternity care and enduring issues of equity for Māori.

Te Hiringa Hauora Research Framework

The Te Hiringa Hauora 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.

2019-2021 Stroke FAST Campaign Evaluation - interim report

This evaluation highlights the long term impact of the successive Stroke F.A.S.T campaigns, run since 2016. The St John Ambulance Service data from 111 calls has demonstrated the impact of consecutive campaigns, with an increase in the number of 111 calls for suspected stroke, and the average number of daily calls has increased over time.

Impact of COVID-19 August/September 2021 Topline results – Wave 3

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.

National Alcohol Harm Minimisation Framework

A key piece of work over the past two years for Te Hiringa Hauora has been the development of a Te Tiriti o Waitangi-aligned National Alcohol Harm Minimisation Framework. It is structured around the two pillars of policy change and culture change, with the aspiration of Aotearoa free from alcohol-related harm. Download the Alcohol Harm Minimisation Framework below.

Māori Māmā views and experiences of vaccinating their pēpi and...

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.

2020 Health and Lifestyles Survey Methodology Report

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.

2020 Health and Lifestyles Survey Questionnaire Showcards

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.

Monitoring alcohol affordability in Aotearoa New Zealand: 2020 update

In 2019/20, 1 in 5 New Zealanders (aged 15+) drank alcohol in ways that were especially harmful to their wellbeing or the wellbeing of others. There is strong evidence that lower alcohol prices lead to higher alcohol consumption, thereby increasing the risk of alcohol-related harm.

2020 Health and Lifestyles Survey Questionnaire

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..

Tobacco control

Difference between perceived and actual daily smoking prevalence among New...

Individuals’ social norms, beliefs and attitudes towards a behaviour predict their intentions and behaviours. Several studies have found that smoking behaviour is greatly influenced by individuals’ perceptions of social norms about smoking. There is substantial evidence that the perceived smoking prevalence rate is a strong predictor for actual smoking behaviour among young people.