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Healthy Homes Newsletter

Healthy Homes is a bi-annual newsletter provided by Toi Te Ora – Public health Service’s Our Community programme.  The Our Community programme aims to support and resource organisations and communities who take action to improve health outcomes for individuals, and families/whanau in the home.

11 October 2011

 
Healthy Homes
Issue Four: October 2011
 

Welcome to the fourth issue of Healthy Homes!

Healthy Homes is a bi-annual newsletter provided by Toi Te Ora - Public Health Service's Our Community programme. The Our Community programme aims to support and provide resources to organisations and communities who take action to improve health outcomes for individuals, and families/whanau in the home.

As summer approaches we are looking not just at the health inside the home, but outdoors as well. This is the last Healthy Homes news letter for 2011 and we would like to thank our readers for your continued support.

 

New food security project 

Kai @ the Right Price offers good quality, fresh produce at an affordable price. This supports those with low or irregular incomes to budget.  It also supports a pattern of inclusion of fruit and vegetables in weekly food spending. It is hoped this will lead to greater consumption of fruit and vegetables.

Two businesses that sell fruit and vegetables have recently taken the opportunity to partner with Toi Te Ora-Public Health Service and trial Kai @ the Right Price. Kai @ the Right Price isavailable in Western Heights Rotorua, and Mangakino. Customers can place an order in store for a $10 or $15 bag of fruit and vegetables at:

Produce Plus, Brookland Rd, Western Heights, Rotorua

 

Mangakino 4-Square, Main Rd, Mangakino

The produce is pre-packed ready for pick up in sturdy bags with handles making it easy for those who walk to their local shops.

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For more information click here to email Kathy King at Toi Te Ora.

  

Fencing to prevent accidents this summer

Drowning and driveway run over injuries are significant causes of fatalities in New Zealand. Coming into summer driveways get busy and can be hazardous to children. Families with small or portable pools need to be reminded to comply with pool safety regulations. A portable/ flexible fence can be used to make places where children play safer.

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See Safekids NZ messages around preventing drowning here.

 

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See information about Safekids driveway runover prevention here.

Managing mosquitoes 

Mosquitoes are unwelcome visitors during the warmer season, but if families know how, they can manage the home environment to minimise this problem.

Families can prevent mosquitoes breeding by emptying out anything that holds water, such as old tyres or buckets.

 

 

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 See the Toi Te Ora website for more information here.
 

 

Helping to prevent Rheumatic Fever

Rheumatic fever is a serious preventable disease which may cause permanent heart damage.

An untreated sore throat ('strep throat') can lead to Rheumatic Fever. By taking sore throats seriously, we can help prevent life long illness and suffering for our whanau. 

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For up-to-date information and advice please click here.

 

 

Sun Safety

Slip, Slop, Slap and Wrap! That’s the SunSmart message, reminding families to cover up whether it is outside at home, playing sports after school or swimming at the beach.

 

 

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To learn how to be a SunSmart organisation and for free SunSmart resources, click here.

 

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