0emailprint Quitline is stepping up its attack on nicotine addiction in its next step in the ambitious goal of having a smokefree New Zealand by 2025. A new television, internet and billboard campaign to be launched on Tuesday will focus on becoming “the new you” by stubbing out. The government-funded programme uses ex-smokers who have [...]
“Blatant bloody racism” is how MANA leader Hone Harawira described National’s call for a review into ‘the cost effectiveness of Maori health providers’. “Government spends $7 million over several years on an assessment tool for adult literacy but only $150,000 on an evaluation tool for Maori health providers and they want it yesterday”. “And how [...]
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A Maori health provider says the Government has a hidden agenda in pulling funding for its programme. The Waipareira Trust, part of the Family Start programme that provides support for young families, is one of five health providers being pulled by the Government after a 2009 report showed they were falling short of the criteria [...]
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(RadioNZ) A social services Grovider in south Auckland says its work is coming under intense government scrutiny. Family Start Manukau says it is visited every month by officials from the Ministry of Social Development checking up on its home visiting programme for high-needs whanau. Chief executive Colleen Fakalogotoa says her staff have been frightened that [...]
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Uria Management Trust is inviting all wahine between 20-69 who are due for their 3 yearly cervical screening to come to their Free clinic on 23 March. Have a look at the panui below: Special Clinic for our wahine. Pass this on to your loved ones so they can benefit from either participating in a screening or just [...]
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On Monday 28th November over 50, 000 juvenile paua were placed into the sea along the Kahungunu coastline. Reseeding paua has been a long held aspiration of Ngati Kahungunu whanau, hapu and iwi, who have been concerned about diminishing numbers, and increasing fishing pressure on this iconic taonga (treasure). The project was a collaborative effort [...]
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Associate Health Minister Hon. Tariana Turia has announced that the Hauora Maori Scholarships 2012 are now open for applications from Maori students seeking support to either start or finish their studies in health related courses. “These scholarships have been established to support Maori to enter into health related fields of study, while also recognising their [...]
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(Stuff.co.nz) Lucy Lawless and a group of Greenpeace protesters have been arrested after more than three days at the top of a Shell oil ship berthed at the Port of Taranaki. Police had climbed the ship’s tower to reach them earlier this morning. Lawless and a group of Greenpeace activists scaled the Noble Explorer’s 53-metre [...]
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(Radio NZ) The Maori Midwives Collective Nga Maia plans to change its business model and launch a marketing campaign. Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia officially opened the organisation’s new national premises in Hastings on Tuesday. National Board member Jean Te Huia says the move from having an office in Christchurch, which was destroyed in last [...]
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The publication of New Zealand research in The Lancet today prompted a call for new strategies to reverse health disparities. Pacific and Maori people have more than twice the risk of needing hospital care for infectious disease, write Otago University researchers in the Lancet report. Rates for Pacific Islander and Maori populations are respectively 2.35 and 2.15 times [...]
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