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• Measuring deprivation in the Otago region

  • When
    02 Apr 2019
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Alexander McMillan Room Dunedin Community House 301 Moray Place Dunedin Central

  A presentation series by CPAG & Associate Professor Dan Exeter and co-hosted by PHA Otago Southland branch with guest speaker  Jordana Whyte from Cosy Homes

  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, 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

  Dan Exeter is an Associate Professor 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.

  Guest Speaker Jordana Whyte

  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.

  Free, RSVP as space is limited. Light snacks and non-alcoholic drinks provided.
  

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• Waiora: Promoting Planetary Health and Sustainable Development for All

  • Start
    07 Apr 2019
  •  
    8:18 AM
  • End
    11 Apr 2019
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Rotorua

  

  Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand (HPF) is co-hosting the 2019 World Conference on Health Promotion with IUHPE (International Union for Health Promotion and Education).
  

  The conference is a great opportunity for all public health and health promotion colleagues and institutions to network,  gain knowledge and share their research findings and professional experience with 2,000 colleagues from around the world.

  The theme “Waiora: Promoting Planetary Health and Sustainable Development for All” is very apt and timely, given the range of global  challenges – environment, economy, ethical governance & leadership, equity & equality, and sustainable development– to name a few, that we are all being confronted with in our common home, planet earth.

  The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the framework for the conference.

  We have world champions of public health, health promotion and planetary health, such as Sir Michael Marmot, Professor Fran Baum, Professor Anthony Capon, and Sir Mason Durie, as key note speakers

  For more information and early bird registration

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• Lifestyle Medicine 2019

  • Start
    07 Jun 2019
  • End
    09 Jun 2019
  • Location
    Grand Millennium Hotel, Auckland

  

  Lifestyle Medicine 2019

  Auckland, New Zealand | Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa

  June 7-9, 2019

  Lifestyle Medicine promotes prevention, early intervention, self-management, modification, and dare we say it, even reversal of some chronic conditions.

  Immerse yourself in the interdisciplinary, evidence-based practice of Lifestyle Medicine at Lifestyle Medicine 2019, and explore opportunities for ‘Innovation & Intervention, Environment & Equity’ in the evolution of healthcare.

  Lifestyle Medicine 2019 features a ‘how to’ multidisciplinary clinical focus designed for doctors and allied health practitioners, blended with an exploration of determinants and systemic issues for public health physicians and health policy professionals. This is complimented by scientific abstracts integrated into the main program, which will discuss:

  •   Reversing type 2 diabetes, overweight, risk factors, and metabolic dysfunction;

  •  Microbiome and health tech: Emerging science, innovation and application;

  •  Mental health: Mood disorders, emotional well-being and more.

  Join your like-minded peers and register or find out more at https://www.lifestylemedicine.org.au/conference.

  
  

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