“The Health Promotion Agency (HPA) is a Crown entity established under the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Amendment Act 2000.
We
have a Board
that is appointed by the Minister of Health.
HPA
has an overall statutory function to lead and support activities for
the following purposes:
- promoting health and wellbeing and encouraging healthy lifestyles
- preventing disease, illness and injury
- enabling environments that support health and wellbeing and healthy lifestyles
- reducing personal, social and economic harm.
It
also has the following alcohol-specific statutory functions:
- giving advice and making recommendations to government, government agencies, industry, non-government bodies, communities, health professionals, and others on the sale, supply, consumption, misuse and harm of alcohol so far as those matters relate to HPA’s general functions
- undertaking or working with others to research the use of alcohol in New Zealand, public attitudes towards alcohol, and problems associated with, or consequent on, the misuse of alcohol.
In delivering its
alcohol-specific functions, HPA must only have regard to government
policy if directed to do so by its responsible Minister. As a Crown
agent under the Crown Entities Act 2004, HPA is required to give
effect to government policy when direct by the responsible Minister
for its work on other areas.”
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