Health Promotion

The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines health promotion as ‘the process of enabling individuals and communities to increase control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health’.

• Principles of health promotion
• Whanau Pack
• Health promotion contacts
  

Principles of health promotion:

It works with people, not on them. It starts and ends with the local community. Is directed to the underlying as well as immediate causes of health. It balances concern with the individual and the environment. It emphasises the positive dimensions of health. It concerns and should, involve all sectors of society and environment.

The Health Protection Unit includes a team of health promoters based in Thames, Waihi, Huntly, Hamilton, Te Kuiti, Taumarunui and Tokoroa, who promote healthy living in different Waikato communities.

Whanau Pack

The Whanau Pack is a resource for parents of teenagers, which provides realistic advice on how to get through difficult issues with their children such as exposure to drugs, alcohol and other substances, teen pregnancy and sexual health, relationships and nutrition – to name a very few.

The booklet also offers contact details for a multitude of support agencies, should these factors become an issue in the families’ lives.

Whanau Pack - English version

Whanau Pack - Te Reo

• Whanau Pack Feedback Form

Where to get support:

Waikato
South Waikato & Matamata Piako
Thames, Coromandel & Hauraki
Ruapehu
Hamilton & Waipa
Te Kuiti & Otorohanga

Contact details for each base are as follows:

Taumarunui Taumarunui Hospital Kururau Road Private Bag 1002 Phone (07) 895 7931 Fax (07) 896 0037	Tokoroa Tokoroa Hospital Maraetai Road Tokoroa Phone (07) 886 7239 Fax (07) 886 5235	Te Kuiti Te Kuiti Hospital Ailsa Street PO Box 2, Te Kuiti Phone (07) 878 6704 Fax (07) 878 6398	Huntly 37 Williams Street PO Box 77, Huntly Phone (07) 828 6532 Fax (07) 828 6482
Thames Thames Hospital Mary Street PO Box 707, Thames Phone (07) 868 6550 Fax (07) 868 6598	Hamilton Hugh Monckton Trust Building Rostrevor Street PO Box 505, Hamilton Phone (07) 838 2569 Fax (07) 838 2382	Waihi Blue Lizard 25 Haszard Stree PO Box 81, Waihi Phone (07) 863 6721 Fax (07) 863 6071

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