New Zealand First has released its plan to “Make NZ Healthy”, promising to put prevention at the centre of healthcare if re-elected.<\/p>\n
A policy document released on Sunday said the country had an “epidemic of chronic illness” that overwhelmed hospitals and put pressure on the economy.<\/p>\n
“It’s time for new thinking with a bold shift from treating illness to preventing it,” the document said.<\/p>\n
It includes a number of pledges; embedding good nutrition into the New Zealand Curriculum, focusing on metabolic health to prevent chronic illness, funding research into how nutrition can prevent or treat mental illness, funding a review of how vitamin D can maintain health and investing in hospital trials of how effective intravenous vitamin C pre- and post-surgery is for treating infection.<\/p>\n
The full list of pledges:<\/p>\n
In a media release, a party spokesperson said other parties’ solutions to health were more spending on medicines and treatment instead of funding prevention of the causes of illness.<\/p>\n
“By supporting healthier lifestyles, early intervention and stronger communities, we can keep New Zealanders healthier, reduce pressure on hospitals, and build a more sustainable health system.<\/p>\n
“Having adequate funding for medicines is an essential part of the health system but should not be the goal nor seen as the solution – it will only ever manage the decline of our country’s health,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand First has released its plan to “Make NZ Healthy”, promising to put prevention at the centre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}