What is NZ doing to stop obesity?

The Government is taking a broad population approach to achieving healthy weight, with a focus on improved nutrition and increased physical activity. The approach is designed to help address the significant health losses associated with obesity-related non-communicable diseases in New Zealand.

What are some of the challenges that New Zealand’s health and wellbeing sector face today?

New Zealand’s health workforce also faces challenges. It is ageing – 40% of doctors and 45% of nurses are aged over 50 years. It also has a large unregulated workforce (numbering about 63,000), including care and support workers, or kaiāwhina, who often have limited access to training.

What is New Zealand health Strategy?

The New Zealand Health Strategy sets the platform for the Government’s action on health. It identifies the Government’s priority areas and aims to ensure that health services are directed at those areas that will ensure the highest benefits for our population, focusing in particular on tackling inequalities in health.

Is New Zealand a FATF country?

New Zealand, which is a member of both the FATF and the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), has recently completed an extensive review of its AML/CFT regime, and the legal framework that underpins it.

What problems is NZ facing?

Inflation / cost of living (53%) and housing (51%) are by far the biggest issues facing the country with almost twice as many concerned New Zealanders when compared to the other top-5 issues: healthcare (27%), petrol prices / fuel (25%) and the economy (24%).

What is the biggest health issue in New Zealand?

Mental health issues (including suicide), cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, musculoskeletal conditions, dementia, injuries and oral health are New Zealand’s main health concerns.

How can we improve Māori health?

  1. Plan to improve Māori health.
  2. Set realistic practice goals.
  3. Build trusting therapeutic relationships.
  4. Engage patients in their health issues.
  5. Agree on realistic patient-centred health goals.
  6. Make it easy for patients to come back.
  7. Form partnerships.

When did NZ join FATF?

New Zealand’s involvement in the Financial Action Task Force New Zealand joined the FATF in 1991 and is an active and well-respected member.

What are two things government could do to combat the obesity epidemic?

Provide nutrition information in fast food and other restaurants (fingers crossed that the FDA will eventually get on this). Require physical education, nutrition, and cooking classes in schools. Ban marketing of junk foods to children. Ban marketing of junk foods in schools (USDA is trying to do this).

What are the recommendations of the Taskforce for the new agency?

The Taskforce recommends that the new agency: a. be required to consult, where appropriate, health and safety representatives and committees and unions, where present, in all interactions with workplaces, e.g. when undertaking investigations or assessments b.

What is the New Zealand workplace safety Taskforce?

The Taskforce was established in June 2012 to evaluate whether the workplace and safety system in New Zealand was fit for purpose, and to recommend practical strategies for reducing the high rate of workplace fatalities and serious injuries by 2020.

What are the new terms of reference for the Taskforce?

The new Terms of Reference for the Taskforce reflect and replace the original Terms of Reference, developed in 2005. The Terms of Reference have therefore been modified to ensure a more strategic approach. They also provide for better accountability structures, and reflect current membership.

What are the recommendations of the workplace health and safety Taskforce?

The Taskforce recommends that the Government: a. establish a new workplace health and safety agency with a clear identity and brand, and statutorily defined functions, including: i.