Ngati and Healthy, the 2006 Whanau Ora Award supreme winner and a 2006 Health Innovation Award finalist, is a collaborative community intervention between Ngati Porou Hauora and the Edgar National Centre for Diabetes and Obesity Research (now EDOR).
The project aimed to reduce the incidence of insulin resistance in the short term, and type 2 diabetes in the long term. Implementation of the diabetes prevention community intervention began in 2004.
Community initiative reduces diabetes risk
12 April 2008
Otago Daily Times
Maori health scheme claims success
3 April 2008
New Zealand Herald
Innovative Ngati Porou Programme Reduces Diabetes Risk Factors (PDF 55KB)
2 April 2008
University of Otago Press Release
Founders of innovative diabetes project to speak
7 November 2007
Scoop.co.nz
East Coast diabetes timebomb
17 December 2004
New Zealand Herald
