Nutrition

Other Related Publications
Information on ordering and downloading publications

Breastfeeding: A Guide to Action (Nov 2002)
This document sets out the Ministry of Health's plan of action for improving the initiation and maintenance of breastfeeding throughout New Zealand during 2002-03.

Healthy Eating Healthy Action: A background (Mar 2003)
Healthy Eating - Healthy Action: A Background provides the scientific support and rationale for the directions proposed in the accompanying strategy document, Healthy Eating - Healthy Action: A strategic framework.

Healthy Eating – Healthy Action: Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau Implementation Plan: 2004–2010 (June 2004)
The Healthy Eating – Healthy Action: Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau: Strategy framework (HEHA Strategy) provides an integrated policy framework to bring about changes in the environment in which New Zealanders live, work and play as this relates to nutrition, physical activity and obesity. It is the Ministry’s response to three of the 13 priority population health objectives in the New Zealand Health Strategy (Minister of Health 2000).

Healthy Eating Healthy Action Oranga Pumau Oranga Kai: A Strategic Framework (Mar 2003)
This strategy calls for a more integrated and multi-sectoral approach to addressing nutrition, physical activity and obesity, and highlights the importance of both individual behaviour and our environment.

Improving Folate Intake in New Zealand: Policy implications (Sep 2003)
This publication examines the evidence for a very unusual situation in public health. Rarely has there been a case where the science has been so unequivocal, uncontentious and universally accepted, yet the development and implementation of appropriate policy continues to be problematic.

Review of the New Zealand Interpretation of the World Health Organization's International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the WHO Code) (Sep 2004)
Eleven action points which will provide a framework for refining and strengthening New Zealand's interpretation of the World Health Organization's International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, have been agreed by the Ministry of Health.

Implementing and Monitoring the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes in New Zealand: The Code in New Zealand (Aug 2007)
Implementing and Monitoring the International Code of Marketing Breast-milk Substitutes in New Zealand: The Code in New Zealand has been revised and is now the Ministry's single, standard reference document. The Code in New Zealand includes the Code of Practice for Health Workers in New Zealand and the New Zealand Infant Formula Marketers' Association Code of Practice for the Marketing of Infant Formula.

Page last updated: 26 October 2007