Creating supportive environments
Health promotion aims to create supportive social, physical and cultural environments
that make healthy choices the easy choices. Health promotion actions should be
designed to recognise and respond appropriately to the needs of local communities and
consider wider health and social environments that both directly and indirectly affect oral
health. He Korowai Oranga: Māori Health Strategy provides a strategic framework for
developing supportive environments because it considers whānau ora in the context of
wider health determinants