Health Promotion | Te Whatu Ora

Te Hiringa Hauora | Health Promotion Agency is a Crown entity established on 1 July 2012 under the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. We are an evidence-based health promotion organisation, influencing all sectors that contribute to health and wellbeing. Our key role is to lead and support health promotion initiatives to: - promote health and wellbeing and encourage healthy lifestyles - prevent disease, illness and injury - enable environments that support health, wellbeing and healthy lifestyles - reduce personal, social and economic harm. We have alcohol-specific functions to: - give advice and make recommendations to government, government agencies, industry, non-government bodies, communities, health professionals and others on the sale, supply, consumption, misuse and harm of alcohol as those matters relate to Te Hiringa Hauora general functions - undertake, or work with others, to research alcohol use and public attitudes to alcohol in New Zealand and problems associated with, or consequent on, alcohol misuse.