Health Promotion encompasses a range of strategies and programmes to produce social change for promoting good health and enabling the community to make the healthier choice the easier choice.

The programmes provided are as follows:

• Health Promoting Schools

• Healthy Communities

• Child & Youth Health

• Oral Health

• Men’s Health and Fathering

• Injury Prevention

• Alcohol and Other Drug Related Harm

• Smokefree/Tobacco Control

• Nutrition and Physical Activity

• Sexual Health

• Mental Health Promotion

• Cervical Screening Health Promotion

 

 

 

 

The Health Protection Service is committed to preventing illness or injury arising from environmental or preventable factors including communicable disease control. 

The service operates across the top of the south on a district wide basis, covering the following areas of work:

• Bio security and quarantine

• Burial and Cremation

• Communicable Disease Control

• Contaminated Land

• Drinking Water

• Early Childhood Centres

• Emergency Planning and Response

• Food Safety and Quality

• Hazardous Substances

• Ionising and non-ionising radiation

• Recreational Water

• Resource Management (including air quality, waste management, and environmental noise management)

• Sewage Treatment and Disposal

• Shellfish and Shellfish Waters

• Ship sanitation and radio pratique

• Smokefree Environments

Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control work is undertaken by Health Protection Officers who are Designated Officers on the Ministry of Health, and also Food Act Officers for the New Zealand Food Safety Authority.

Shellfish Surveillance

Monitoring and reporting on recreational and commercial shellfish gathering.  Key emphasis on microbiological and bio toxin aspects, ensuring that the shellfish taken are safe to eat.

As Authorised Providers of Health Education Resources we stock and distribute a wide range of Health Resources through our Nelson and Blenheim offices. 

The Resource unit is open to the public between 8.30am and 16.30pm daily.


We stock resources covering the following topics:

• Alcohol and other Drugs

• Child Health and Safety

• Communicable Diseases

• Dental Hygiene

• Diabetes

• Environmental Health

• Food Safety

• Health Promoting Schools

• Hearing

• Immunisation

• Maori Health

• Mental Health

• New Immigrants’ Health

• Nutrition and Physical Activity

• Older Peoples’ Health

• Pacific Peoples’ Health

• Sexual Health

• Smokefree

• Teenagers’ Health

• Women’s’ Health

A free Public Health Nurse service is provided in all schools. This service works closely with families and schools to address all child and adolescent health issues such as: child abuse, behavioural issues, communicable diseases, allergies, head lice, skin infections, wetting and soiling, eczema, asthma, nutrition, grief and health camp referrals.
 
Programmes provided are:

• Well Child Pre-school and School services

    • Public Health Nurse Referral Form (Word Version)
    • Public Health Nurse Referral Form (PDF Version)

• B4School Check

• Well Child Aged 0-5 (Tamariki Ora)

• Immunisation programmes

The Sexual Health Clinic Service provides information, diagnosis and check-ups for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The service provides for all peoples regardless of cultures, values and beliefs, gender, age, abilities and choice of sexual expression.

 

The Sexual Health Clinic is free and confidential. No referral is required.

The National Screening Unit (NSU) provides health screening programmes in New Zealand

A separate unit of the Ministry of Health, the Unit is responsible for the safety, effectiveness and quality of health and disability screening programmes.

The Unit is currently responsible for five screening programmes:

Antenatal HIV Screening
Screens pregnant women for HIV to reduce the chances of HIV being passed to the baby.

BreastScreen Aotearoa
Screens women (aged 45 - 69) for breast cancer.

National Cervical Screening Programme
Screens women for abnormal changes to cells on the cervix.

Newborn Metabolic Screening
Screens newborn babies for certain metabolic disorders.

Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
Screens newborn babies for hearing loss.

 

The National Screening Unit is also responsible for introducing the quality improvement measures for antenatal screening for Down syndrome.

To find out more about enrolling and programmes, please visit the official website:

 

 

 

BreastScreen Aotearoa

You can have a free screening mammogram every two years through BreastScreen Aotearoa if you meet the following requirements:

·                  you are aged 45 to 69 years of age

·                  you have no symptoms of breast cancer

·                  you have not had a mammogram in the last 12 months

·                  you are not pregnant

·                  you are eligible for public health services in New Zealand. (If you are not sure if you are eligible to receive free public health services in New Zealand, visit www.moh.govt.nz/eligibility).

How can I join the programme when I'm 45?
You can ring Freephone 0800 270 200 or you can register on-line
www.nsu.govt.nz/Current-NSU-Programmes/1528.asp 

Our advice is that one of the best things you can do for your health, and your family’s health, is to stop smoking

With support, you can become smokefree.

 

Click here for a list of cessation support available in Nelson/Tasman

Click here for a list of cessation support available in Marlborough