Green Prescription

The Ministry of Health and other health agencies have been the drivers behind the Healthy Eating – Healthy Action: Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau Strategy. Implementing the plan addresses three of the 13 priority areas for population in the New Zealand Health Strategy. The health sector is keenly aware that it alone cannot produce the outcomes required, so must coordinate its activities with education, sport, transport, local government and non-government agencies, to improve nutrition, increase physical activity and reduce obesity.