Kia ora koutou,
This is our first PolicySpot of the year and we want to start by sending our aroha to our members affected by the murderous attack on the mosques in Christchurch last Friday. We know that like us you will be reeling from the enormity of what happened and the awful finality of the senseless deaths of so many innocent people.
While this is a time for mourning and self-reflection as a nation it is also time to push for decisive action to reform our gun control laws. This morning I was at Parliament to witness the handover of a petition organised by Action Station to ban semi-automatic weapons (see the photo above). Reforms must also include a number of other evidence-based measures which researchers Hera Cook and Marie Russell (PHA member) from the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington have been calling for for some time. Marie was also interviewed on RNZ.
Our week started with a Te Tiriti o Waitangi training workshop in Auckland run by PHA member Heather Came-Friar and Mitzi (see photo above). It seemed very appropriate in the light of the previous Friday's tragic events to be getting into the nitty gritty of Te Tiriti, talking about respect, diversity and wairuatanga. The impetus behind the workshop was a remit by the PHA Auckland branch recommending the PHA engage in a committed way to Te Tiriti in all its practices. We came away from the workshop with a blueprint to do just that.
Earlier in the year we made a submission on the Budget Policy Statement 2019. This will be the first Wellbeing Budget and we are very supportive of the Government's intention to measure our country's progress in terms way beyond GDP. "It is clear that economic measures like GDP are an inadequate way to measure or express a country’s success - a country’s success must be assessed by the wellbeing of its most vulnerable citizens."
Hei konā mai,
your PHA policy team
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IUHPE - PHA event for 2019
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Coming very soon! The International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) World Conference on Health Promotion will take place from 7-11 April.
As part of the collaborative effort and joint leadership with the Health Promotion Forum, the PHA Council has agreed to adopt this event as our PHA event for 2019.
It promises to be an interesting and stimulating event with the extremely timely theme of WAIORA: Promoting Planetary Health and Sustainable Development for All. 'The aim is to provide an unparalleled opportunity to link and demonstrate the contribution of health promotion to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to acknowledge the way SDGs contribute to improvements in health and wellbeing.'
It's not too late to register and PHA members registering last minute are being offered a bargain rate of $1200 (non-member rate is $1605) so you’ll get a $405 discount! (Please note this is a correction from the Bulletin we sent out last week in which we gave the earlybird discount rate.)
If you're a PHA caucus member look out on the programme for special caucus network meetings.
The programme has an outstanding line-up of speakers from home and abroad and offers some innovative initiatives. One of these is the Master Class series where students and early career researchers and health promotion practitioners are invited to submit an application to apprentice a Master health promoter. Individuals put forward an issue to be discussed with the Master of their choice and three lucky apprentices per class will be chosen.
Our new CE Prudence Stone will be attending the conference including all three PHA caucus meetings. Be sure to look out for her and say kia ora.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Ka kite!
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STIR (Stop Institutional Racism), one of PHA's special interest groups, and its friends have launched a new initiative He Hōmiromiro. This is a bookclub with a difference; it's a virtual decolonisation reading group held once a month to read and reflect on decolonisation texts, both classic and fresh off the press.
The convenors are Alex Hotere-Barnes and Heather Came-Friar.
You can join the meetings by Zoom on the third Friday every month at 1 pm.
Contact alexlbarnes@gmail.com for the Zoom address
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Public Health Seminars - 2019
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University of Otago Public Health Seminar Series
These free lunchtime seminars highlight recent findings from leading public health researchers. They are held on Fridays 12:30 – 1:15pm in the Small Lecture Theatre at the University of Otago, Mein Street, Newtown, Wellington, and also webcast live via this link.
All welcome!
Friday, 29 March Epidemiology: Past, present and future
Tony Blakely, University of Melbourne
To join by web-conference go to: https://otago.ac.nz/zoom/ph_seminars
For more information, see http://otago.ac.nz/UOWevents
Watch seminars: UOW Public Health Seminars 2018
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Consultations and Submissions
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Update on Health and Disability System Review
The Review (see Terms of Reference) was established by the Minister of Health in August 2018 with the aim of 'future-proofing' NZ's health and disability services. The panel will consult widely during the review process and will be seeking seek independent advice and analysis as well as engaging with DHBs, primary care, health professionals and the public in developing its recommendations.
You are invited to give feedback on the 9 broad Phase One Questions via the online tool on the Review website or you can also email your responses to systemreview@moh.govt.nz
Submissions close 31 May 2019.
Next steps
The review panel will provide an interim report by July 2019 on which it will seek public feedback during Phase 2 (August – October 2019). The panel will then produce a final report by 31 March 2020.
Inquiry into Māori health inequalities
The Māori Affairs Select Committee has announced that it will hold an inquiry into Māori health inequalities. The terms of reference have yet to be announced. We'll keep you posted on the timetable of the inquiry and opportunities for submissions.
You can check these links to see what consultations and submissions are coming up: NZ Parliament submission website and NZ Government Consultations website.
Please get in touch if there's something we need to know about, by emailing libby@pha.org.nz
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PHA Otago Southland branch & CPAG event - Measuring deprivation in the Otago region
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Measuring deprivation in the Otago region
The New Zealand Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is a set of tools for identifying concentrations of deprivation in New Zealand. It measures deprivation at the neighbourhood-level in data zones custom-designed to produce better small area information without losing their contents to suppression or confidentiality. The IMD comprises 28 indicators grouped into seven domains of deprivation: Employment, Income, Crime, Housing, Health, Education and Access to services, which may be used individually or in combination to explore the geography of deprivation and its association with a given health or social outcome.
Associate Professor Dan Exeter, who co-developed the IMD with Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), will discuss its development, how it compares to NZDep, and demonstrate the different ways in which the IMD and its domains can be used to better understand the drivers of deprivation within the Dunedin area. Dan will also discuss the potential for the IMD to inform health and social policy.
Speakers
Associate Professor Dan Exeter is based in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland. He is a quantitative health geographer and has a background in Geographical Information Systems and spatial analysis. Dan’s research uses large datasets, such as the census or routine health databases, to identify the occurrence of or potential solutions to, inequalities in health.
Jordana Whyte is the Project Manager for the Cosy Homes Trust, the coordinating agency for healthy homes
work across Otago. She will offer some local context around the challenges of fuel/energy poverty in our
region, and how unhealthy housing helps perpetuate a cycle of poverty.
Venue: Dunedin Community House, Alexander MacMillan Room, 283-301 Moray Place, Dunedin
Time: 17:30-19:30
Date: Tuesday 2 April 2019
Free, RSVP as space is limited.
Light snacks & non-alcoholic drinks will be provided.
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Have an event to share? Send the details through to libby@pha.org.nz and we'll feature it here.
Measuring deprivation in the Nelson-Marlborough region. Tuesday, 26 March 2019, 5-7pm. Red Cross Rooms, 59 Parkers Rd, Nelson. RSVP
Measuring deprivation in the Otago region. Tuesday 2 April 2019 5:30-7:00pm Alexander McMillan Room, Dunedin Community House, 301 Moray Place, Dunedin. RSVP
Measuring deprivation in the Canterbury region. Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 6-7pm. Community Law Canterbury, 198 Montreal Street, Christchurch. RSVP
The "Rightness of Whiteness?" with Suzanne Menzies-Culling 3 April 2019 6:30pm, Auckland Central Library 44 Lorne St. Free public lecture
23rd IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion 7 – 11 April 2019. Rotorua.
Hidden in plain sight: Why gender & men’s health may be keys to achieving health equity with speaker Derek Griffith: 16 April 4:30-6:30pm AUT South campus ME 104 RSVP heather.came@aut.ac.nz
CPAG and PHA Wellington Post Budget Breakfast Friday 31 May 2019, 7:30 am. The Boatshed, Wellington
CPAG Auckland Post Budget Breakfast Friday 31 May 2019, 11 am. Mt Eden War Memorial Hall, 487-489 Dominion Road, Mt Eden,Auckland.
CPAG Christchurch Post Budget Breakfast Friday 31 May 2019. Details will follow
CPAG Nelson & Tasman Post Budget Breakfast Wednesday 5 June 2019. Details to follow
18th International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS) 30 June - 5 July 2019 Queenstown
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