tŌ MĀTOU MAHI

OUR WORK

Our goal is for all New Zealanders to enjoy health promoting social and physical environments that enable healthy food and physical activity choices, being smokefree, drinking alcohol only in moderation and increasing mental health, resilience and wellbeing.

The Healthy Families NZ approach focuses on addressing the underlying conditions that impact our health and wellbeing, in order to reduce the risk of preventable chronic disease.

​We seek to uncover the journey that leads to chronic disease, understanding the lived experience of whānau and communities so that we can determine together how best to address the conditions that lead to experiencing preventable chronic disease.

Ngā Kaupapa Auaha

Creating change

A systems approach recognises that the relationships and connections within a system are key, and that by looking at a system as a whole we can find effective ways to challenge the status quo and use the relationships and connections to disrupt the system to get a desired outcome.

It also recognises that no one individual, organisation or sector can do this alone, so working deliberately and collectively is essential to creating change. This disruption creates opportunities to adapt the system to better serve our people. We enable community-led change through the Six Conditions of Systems Change.

These six interdependent conditions are what hold problems in place, and also what enable a problem to be resolved through systemic disruption. Some Conditions are explicit and obvious, and some are more implicit and harder to see. Each provides a focus area that can inform the development of change strategies and system interventions.

To find out more about the Healthy Families NZ approach to systems change visit www.healthyfamiliesnz.org/creating-change