Healthy Environments

The Healthy Environments section of Te Puna Waiora provide the following services.

Sexual Health

Provision of an assessment and treatment based service for self-referred clients with sexually transmitted diseases
Contraception and family planning services
Sexual health education
Cervical screening services
Termination of pregnancy counselling.

Communicable disease control activities aimed at preventing the spread of infectious disease
Food administration activity aimed at improving the quality of food presented for sale as well as ensuring regulatory regimes surrounding manufactured food
Environmental health activity aimed at reducing the risks to health from the physical environment. Activity includes water supplies, feral shellfish monitoring programmes, improvements in sewage, solid waste disposal, health input into processes under the Resource Management Act, control of hazardous substances etc
Regulatory input into programmes aimed at reducing the prevalence of smoking and alcohol consumption.

The Healthy Workplaces framework is under development at present. It aims to offer the following:

Workplace health and wellness resources, promotion and education.
Input into evaluating a workplace’s current health and wellbeing position.
Input into the identification of staff needs and of workplace opportunities to improve staff health and wellbeing.
Links to a network of agencies and service providers able to assist in improving workplace health and wellbeing.
Assistance in organisational policy development linked to workplace health and wellbeing (e.g workplace wellness policy, smokefree policy).
Development of a set of workplace standards in the area of staff wellbeing which businesses can work towards achieving.