Healthy Lifestyles
Go4
your life is the Wairarapa District Health Board's strategy to
create an environment where individuals and whanau are supported to
achieve their maximum health and wellbeing.
Go 4 Your Life is about healthy living to
reduce the risk of developing long term conditions such as diabetes,
heart disease, emphysema or depression.
There are 4 major components:
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Smokefree living
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Good nutrition for a healthy weight
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Physical activity - enough to benefit your
health
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Mental wellbeing - violence free living and
preventing depression and suicide
A
Go4 Your Life Charter has been developed to
provide a platform for genuine collaboration within and between
sectors. Forty-five Wairarapa organizations, community groups,
networks and businesses have become Community Partners and signed
the Charter to record their commitment to working together to
achieve the vision. We expect to add others in the future. Community
Partners are eligible to use the Go4 Your Life branding for their
local initiatives and a CD with logos, photos and templates is
available.
This Wairarapa call to action to support people
to live longer, healthier lives was launched on 21st
September 2009 with a function and a
Wairarapa Midweek 12 page
supplement
Supporting
healthy lifestyles is a key strategy in positively
affecting the the health and wellbeing of all the Wairarapa's health
priority groups. It has the added benefit of improving the health of the
rest of the population too!
This challenge of supporting healthy choices and healthy lifestyles is
being met by many groups in our community, working together in both
Operational and Steering groups that break down former barriers between
groups with the same aims.
Scholarship for professional development
offered by
Breastfeeding Peer Counsellor Programme & La Leche League NZ
Up
to two scholarships are available to attend this comprehensive 40
hour train-the-trainer course, with ongoing support and mentoring, that
equips health and community workers to design culturally appropriate
breastfeeding peer support and counseling to other mothers.
The Wairarapa
Healthy Lifestyles Team:
Sue McAuley, Healthy Lifestyles Programme Manager, Planning & Funding,
DHB.
Sue.mcauley@wairarapa.dhb.org.nz
/ (06) 946 9892
Nicky Poona, Health Promotion Team Leader, Wairarapa Public Health
Nicky.poona@wairarapa.dhb.org.nz
/ (06) 570 5020
Jill Stringer, Communications Advisor, DHB
Jill.stringer@wairarapa.dhb.org.org.nz
(06) 946 9800 Ext. 5840
Linda Spence, Smokefree Co-ordinator, DHB
Linda.spence@wairarapa.dhb.org.nz
(06) 946 9800 Ext. 5727
Jane Mills, Suicide Prevention Co-ordinator, DHB
Jane.Mills@wairarapa.dhb.org.nz
(06) 946 9800 Ext.
6219
Gaye Rowberry, Family Violence Co-ordinator, DHB
Gaye.rowberry@wairarapa.dhb.org.nz
(06) 946 9800