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Child Poverty Should Be a Key Focus for Inquiry Into Mental …
WebIt is heartening that the Government has announced a national Inquiry into Mental Health and Addictions. Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says it is vital that this Inquiry addresses child poverty as a preventable cause of mental health problems.
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Poverty in Childhood Linked to Mental Health Problems: New Report
WebA new report co-written by CPAG and the NZPsS is being launched this Thursday, May 18. Child Poverty and mental health: A literature review shows that poverty has a serious impact on the mental health and wellbeing of children in Aotearoa-New Zealand. “Increasing the danger for children in poverty is that these effects may go …
CPAG Policy Brief: Pacific Child Health
WebJuly 06, 2023. Policy Briefs/. CPAG Policy Brief: Pacific Child Health. View PDF of full Pacific Child Health Policy Brief. OPTIMISING HEALTH FOR PACIFIC CHILDREN. Diverse Pacific people account for around 9% of New Zealand’s total population – approximately 470,000 people – half of whom have Samoan heritage.
Free Dental and Health Care For All Young People
WebChild Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is calling for free healthcare, including dentistry, prescriptions and specialist hearing and vision care for all children and adolescents under 18 years of age, in a submission to the New Zealand Health and Disability System Review, released today. In the group’s submission, CPAG says …
CPAG Welcomes He Ara Oranga: Report of the Government …
WebChild Poverty Action Group (CPAG) applauds the newly released He Ara Oranga: Report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction, and says it a comprehensive and substantive response to the wide ranging submissions, with commendable focus on prevention, and notably on the impacts of poverty on children’s …
New Health Targets for Children Welcomed
WebMay 03, 2017. Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) commends the Government’s new Better Public Services (BPS) health targets which it says has improving child well-being at the heart. The 2012 BPS health target on increasing immunisation rates to adequate levels has been highly successful. The 2012 target of reduction in rates of rheumatic fever
CPAG Welcomes Ministry of Health Focus on Food Insecurity
WebChild Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says that income adequacy, along with the consistent certainty of income, is key to ensuring that children's nutritional needs are met for healthy brain development in their critical early years, and for ensuring that they are able to do well in their lives thereafter.
Free GP visits — Child Poverty Action Group
WebCPAG has advocated for all-hours access to free healthcare for 0-18 year olds since the mid-2000s. Policy timeline. The Free Child Health Care Scheme was introduced in 1996. It provided free in-hours GP visits for children under six years old. This led to a marked increase in visits by infants in the poorest households.
Hospitalisation rates — Child Poverty Action Group
WebData are from 2019, presented in the Child Poverty Monitor 2020. Overall hospitalisation rates. Hospitalisation rates of under-15 year olds for medical conditions have risen between 1991 and 2019; from 50.2 hospitalisations per 1,000 age-specific population in 1991, to 79.3 hospitalisations per 1,000 age‑specific population in 2019.
Child abuse: what role does poverty play
WebThe Child Poverty Action Group has released Child Abuse: What role does poverty play? a review of the past 25 years of child abuse research and finds higher than average rates of child maltreatment and neglect associated with poverty. CPAG Health spokesperson Professor Innes Asher says the report strongly identifies poverty as a key …
Too Soon for the Tooth Fairy: New Report From CPAG
WebChild Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has released a new report this morning, Too soon for the tooth fairy: the implications of child poverty for oral health, which summarises current knowledge about the prevalence of poor oral health among children in Aotearoa-New Zealand. The report is co-authored by oral health researcher Prathibha …
Election 2017: A New Zealand where all children can flourish
WebIn the lead up to the 2017 general election, Child Poverty Action Group published five key election documents focusing on health, social investment, incomes, housing and education with the aim of putting children at the heart of policy making. On this page you can read CPAG’s 2017 priorities and how each party’s proposed policies …
Election 2020: Health, Housing and Liveable Incomes
WebElection 2020. Ahead of the 2020 General Election, Child Poverty Action Group outlined its policy recommendations in the areas of income, housing and health to better inform voters and political parties about how the next Government could most effectively reduce child poverty.. CPAG said, “With foresight and commitment, the next …
Aotearoa, land of the long wide bare cupboard: Food insecurity in …
WebAotearoa, land of the long wide bare cupboard Background In 2019/20 CPAG ran a campaign highlighting the challenges faced by children living in food-insecure households. Food insecurity occurs when people do not have consistent access to enough, appropriate food&nbs
Poverty to Blame for Escalating Respiratory Illness and …
WebChild Poverty Action Group (CPAG) applauds the recent spotlight on children’s health by the New Zealand Herald. “This is a welcome focus, and it is clear that what is needed is a much more strategic multi-sector policy response to supporting good health in children, and ensuring that families have all their needs met,” says Professor …
Preventable, avoidable diseases are still putting our most …
WebCure Kids’ annual State of Child Health Report released today confirmed very high rates of costly, yet often preventable, diseases in Aotearoa. Yet as a country we could protect children from these diseases with …
Aotearoa, Land of the Long Wide Bare Cupboard: Food Insecurity …
WebChild Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has launched a series of papers to highlight the problems children face living in food insecure households. The first three papers in the series, entitled “Aotearoa, land of the long wide bare cupboard”, are available for download now.
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