Healthy Eating – Healthy Action Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau: A strategic framework 2003.

The Healthy Eating – Healthy Action: A strategic framework is a planning tool for action that aims at achieving three main health objectives: improve nutrition, increase physical activity and reduce obesity of New Zealanders. Key priority areas are: lower socioeconomic groups, children, young people, and their families and wha¯nau (including older people), environments, communication and workforce. For each priority area the strategy sets out the underlying rationale for selecting the key issues, and actions based around the goals of improving nutrition, increasing physical activity and reducing obesity. These priority areas are shaped by the approaches for action, guiding principles, goals and vision, and especially by the overarching Treaty of Waitangi and the reducing inequalities framework. Six key approaches have been identified to guide actions for each of the priority areas, based on the Ottawa Charter: 1) build healthy public policy; 2) create supportive environments; 3) strengthen community action; 4) develop personal skills; 5) reorient services and programmes; 6) monitor, research and evaluate.
To help eliminate hunger and food insecurity, the Strategy main proposals are embedded in its vision, goals and actions. Poor nutrition, lack of physical activity and obesity are recognized as the major and increasing causes of preventable disease, disability and death in New Zealand.
To enable more inclusive food systems, proposed interventions aim to strengthen community action and create supportive environments as well develop personal skills with the focus at improving both personal and population health.