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Website: Health Promotion Agency
Email: enquiries@hpa.org.nz
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2014
The Health Promotion Agency (HPA) monitors parents and caregivers’ opinions on food marketing to children in the Health and Lifestyles Survey (HLS). Results from the 2012…
This fact sheet uses data from HPA's 2014 Health and Lifestyles Survey (HLS) to gauge tobacco brand recognition among New Zealand adults. This is achieved by…
This fact sheet assesses whether the prevalence of risky alcohol consumption (defined as high levels of alcohol consumption on a single occasion) among New Zealand adults…
Globally, depression is marked to become the second leading cause of disability by 2020 (Murray & Lopez, 1996). Six percent of New Zealanders experience a major…
In New Zealand it is illegal to sell tobacco products to people under the age of 18 years, yet young people continue to smoke. It is,…
Young people’s perceptions of parental attitudes and rules about smoking are associated with youth smoking, and these perceptions may be an even stronger influence on youth…
Parents have a significant influence on the societal norms, values and behaviour learned by their children. Permissive parental rule setting and monitoring has been shown to…
This research was undertaken to understand how risky gambling behaviours, gambling-related harm, and related life situations change over time. HPA will use the findings to help…
This fact sheet is an analysis of data about alcohol and pregnancy collected in HPA’s 2013 Attitudes and Behaviour towards Alcohol Survey (ABAS). ABAS is an…
Last Publication Date: 1 Oct 2013
New Zealand and Australia have the highest rates of melanoma in the world. Three risk factors for developing melanoma include skin type, skin colour, and family…
