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• Looking after mental health and wellbeing during COVID-19

  Posted: Thursday, March 19, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: mental health, mental wellbeing, disease, advice, lockdown
  Message from the Mental Health Foundation: 18th March 2020 Tēnā koe. It's a tense time for most of us. COVID-19 is scary and it's rapidly changing the way we work, socialise, travel, access healthcare, exercise, shop and live

• Public information evening on COVID-19

  Posted: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: public health, seminar, disease, wellbeing, prevention
  Te Papa Hauora Health Precinct is hosting a FREE public information evening on COVID-19. The impact of COVID-19 has affected us all and there remain many questions about the future. You are invited to join in person or as part of an online audience

• $1.2m funding boost for Parkinson's disease study

  Posted: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: disease, research
  University of Canterbury media release: 30th June 2020 University of Canterbury-led research that could help Parkinson’s disease patients learn more about their risk of dementia has received a million-dollar funding boost

• Pools and gyms exercise healthy approach to personal safety

  Posted: Thursday, May 21, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: safety, disease, recreation
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 20th May 2020 Swimmers and fitness fans can now return to their regular workouts, with online bookings core to a safety-focused environment at the Christchurch City Council’s Recreation and Sport Centres

• Survey on how life is going for the disability community

  Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: survey, disabilities, disabled, lockdown, disease, emergencies
  The Office for Disability Services invites you to participate in a weekly survey on the issues and risks being experienced by disabled people in the COVID-19 environment

• COVID-19 info for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities

  Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: resources, lockdown, disease, migrants, refugees
  The Community Languages Information Network Group (CLING) in Canterbury is collating COVID-19 information for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities

• Libraries boost home connections to low-cost online access

  Posted: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: technology, disease, accessibility, lockdown
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 31st March 2020 Christchurch City Libraries (CCL) is helping families and individuals get online at home

• Stay calm and play your part to contain COVID-19

  Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: prevention, disease, advice
  Canterbury District Health Board media release: 10th March 2020 New Zealanders should try not to panic about COVID-19 and instead focus on ways they can limit its spread, advised Te Papa Hauora experts at the country’s first coronavirus public meeting

• Information on the novel coronavirus from the Ministry of Health

  Posted: Thursday, February 13, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: health, prevention, information, disease, advice
  There are currently outbreaks overseas of a new disease called COVID-19 (also known as novel coronavirus). The Ministry of Health is closely monitoring the situation and following guidance from the World Health Organization

• Community and Public Health providing advice on novel coronavirus to passengers

  Posted: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: public health, information, disease, advice
  Canterbury District Health Board media release: 27th January 2020 Community and Public Health will have staff at Christchurch International Airport from today to provide information on novel coronavirus for passengers arriving on flights direct from Main

• CDHB Sexual Health Newsletter: November 2019

  Posted: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 in: Newsletters With tags: newsletter, sexual health, sexuality, disease
  Welcome to Community and Public Health's CDHB Sexual Health Newsletter! It provides up to date information to health co-ordinators in schools and others working in the area of sexual and youth health in the Canterbury and West Coast regions

• Health Promoting Schools Magazine: Term 4 2019 Issue

  Posted: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 in: Newsletters With tags: children, newsletter, nutrition, wellbeing, smokefree, education, water, disease
  Find about health promotion activities happening at Canterbury and West Coast schools/kura and early childhood education settings.  You can also read health promotion messages and find about about upcoming events

• CDHB Sexual Health Newsletter: August 2019

  Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 in: Newsletters With tags: newsletter, sexual health, sexuality, seminar, research, disease
  Welcome to Community and Public Health's CDHB Sexual Health Newsletter! It provides up to date information to health co-ordinators in schools and others working in the area of sexual and youth health in the Canterbury and West Coast regions

• Canterbury measles outbreak declared officially over

  Posted: Thursday, May 16, 2019 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: disease, medical, health
  Canterbury District Health Board media release: 16th May 2019 Canterbury health authorities have today declared the measles outbreak that started in the region on 16 February officially over

• City learns from gastro outbreak in Havelock North

  Posted: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, environment, environmental health, health, disease
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 13th June 2017 A reference group is working to make sure the mistakes that contributed to the gastro outbreak in Havelock North last year will not be repeated here

• Top tips for staying healthy in the New Year from the WHO

  Posted: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: physical activity, smokefree, mental wellbeing, water, safety, disease, alcohol
  A new you in the New Year: Stay active Aim for at least 2 hours and 20 minutes of physical activity per week. Eat healthier Try to consume less than 5g of salt and less than 25g of sugar per day