The Best Start in Life, the Public Health Advisory Committee’s report to the Minister of Health, explores why there has been an overall lack of progress in improving health outcomes for New Zealand children aged under six.
PHAC publications pre 2011
The Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC) was a statutory sub-committee of the previous National Health Committee (NHC) prior to 2011. The following are documents published by PHAC during that time.
Phac Publications
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Published 26 June 2010
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Published 30 April 2010Healthy Places, Healthy Lives, the Public Health Advisory Committee’s report to the Minister of Health, provides an evidence-based review of how the urban environment influences the health of communities. In New Zealand and worldwide, there has emerged a range of health problems that are linked with how we live in our towns and cities today.
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Published 26 April 2010This report outlines the findings of a survey of urban planners, urban designers and transport engineers in New Zealand.
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Published 12 December 2008Rethinking urban environments and health is a set of five think pieces commissioned by the Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC) that provide insights into the links between urban environments and health that are not necessarily reflected in the academic literature. -
Published 16 April 2008This review will discuss the international evidence in relation to the health effects of the urban environment. The vast bulk of research evidence to date has been collected in the United States where the emergence of the ‘New Urbanism’ movement has led to a proliferation of research centres exploring the impact of urban design on health.
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Published 16 April 2008The World Health Organization (WHO) identified the urban environment as a key area for future policy development and intersectoral collaboration when it established the Healthy Cities project in the 1980s.
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Published 26 March 2007This publication from the New Zealand Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC) encourages policy makers to carry out a health impact assessment (HIA) as a routine part of policy making. It discusses what health impacts are, the benefits of HIA, what the PHAC has learned from its work on HIA, describes some HIA case studies, and considers what is needed to make HIA a routine part of policy making in New Zealand. -
Published 16 June 2006Health is Everyone’s Business: Working Together for Health and Wellbeing is a report to the Minister of Health from the Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC) that looks at the implications of a changing context for public health in New Zealand. -
Published 26 May 2006This report provides advice about obesity prevention and reversal from the Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC). The Minister passed the advice to the Health Select Committee inquiry on obesity. It is a paper to the Minister of Health, rather than a published document.
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Published 19 June 2005A Guide to Health Impact Assessment: A Policy Tool for New Zealand was prepared by the Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC) to introduce health impact assessment (HIA) as a practical way to ensure that health and wellbeing are considered when policy is being developed in all sectors.
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Page last updated: 07 October 2011
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