Actions for 'Outcome: Happy and healthy'

We are prioritising work to improve youth mental wellbeing, the maternity system, and support in the early years.

Action focus areas

Improve maternity and early years support

• Redesign maternity services through the five-year Maternity Whole of System Action Plan
• Review of the Well Child Tamariki Ora programme
• Intensive parenting support: expanding the Pregnancy and Parenting Service

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Inspire active, healthy and creative children and young people

• Healthy Active Learning programme
• Extend and enhance nurses in secondary schools (School-Based Health Services)
• Delivery of Strategy for Women and Girls in Sport and Active Recreation
• Creatives in Schools programme

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Increase support for mental wellbeing

• Expand access and choice of primary mental health and addiction support
• Improve forensic mental health services for young people
• Develop a suicide prevention strategy
• Promote wellbeing in primary and intermediate schools.

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Indicators for 'Outcome: Happy and healthy'

Indicators are used to measure progress on outcomes - for this outcome, the indicators are:

• Prenatal care
• Prenatal exposure to toxins
• Subjective health status
• Preventable admissions to hospital
• Mental wellbeing
• Self-harm and suicide

You can learn more about these measures on the Indicators page.