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Press Release – University of Auckland
The first New Zealand study to look at the effects of food hardship on pre-schoolers’ nutrition has found that nearly half of families struggle to access healthy food in their child’s first year of life and this can have a negative downstream impact on children’s diets.
Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal study.
Lead researcher, Dr Sarah Gerritsen, from the University of Auckland’s School of Population Health, says the aim was to investigate whether food hardship impacted young children’s nutrition.
Dr Sarah Gerritsen
“We discovered that food hardship was most prevalent when children were infants and this influenced the quality of nutrition children received, even once we accounted for differences in family circumstances, such as income and education,” Dr Gerritsen says.
Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 6:08 am
The first New Zealand study to look at the effects of
food hardship on pre-schoolers’ nutrition has found that
nearly half of families struggle to access healthy food in
their child’s first year of life and this can have a
negative downstream impact on children’s diets.
Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal
study.
Lead researcher, Dr Sarah Gerritsen, from the
University of Auckland s School of Population Health, says
the aim was to investigate whether food hardship impacted
young children’s nutrition.
Dr
Sarah Gerritsen
“We discovered
that food hardship was most prevalent when children were
Press Release – Auckland University of Technology
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND INSTITUTIONAL INTERACTIONS MATTER: IMPROVING USE AND EXPERIENCE OF CHILD HEALTHCARE SERVICES
A report released today, “Ethnic Differences in the use and experience of child healthcare services in NZ”, reveals that interactions with family members and with health professionals are crucial in determining immunisation uptake, engagement rates and satisfaction levels with New Zealand’s health system.
Funded by the Ministry of Social Development’s
Children and Families Research Fund and the Health Research Council, the study was led by AUT’s NZ Work Research Institute (NZWRI) in collaboration with the University of Auckland and Oxford University Clinical Research Unit.