Founders of innovative diabetes project to speak

7 November 2007

Founders of innovative diabetes prevention project to speak in HB

Dr Jennie Harre Hindmarsh and Mark IIes will be speaking at the Hawke’s Bay Medical Research AGM on Thursday 15th November at 5.15pm at the Education Centre of Hawke’s Bay Hospital. They will be speaking about the Ngati & Healthy East Coast Prevent Diabetes Project.

Ngati and Healthy was initiated by the Ngati Porou Hauora in partnership with the Edgar National Centre for Diabetes Research. The two year programme looked at health intervention to prevent diabetes among the largely Ngati Porou Maori communities of the East Coast, north of Gisborne. Hawke’s Bay Medical Research Foundation was one of the major funders for this research project.

The three main components of the community intervention were: four community based programmes, made up of regular lifestyle education programmes and monitoring available to the whole community but also particular focus on high risk individuals. A health promotion strategy targeting the overall community of the East Coast and a strategy to ensure fresh food and exercise options were available and affordable on the coast.

In November 2006 Ngati Porou Hauora received a Whanau Ora Award for Ngati & Healthy- in addition to Ngati & Healthy having been one of the 25 finalists in the 2006 Health Innovation Awards run by the Ministry of Health and ACC.

Anyone interested in this subject is welcome to attend the presentation.

ENDS