It aims to improve people’s health where they live, learn, work and play by taking a dynamic systems approach to preventing chronic disease. The Healthy Families NZ approach is underpinned by a set principles including an explicit focus on equity, improving Maori health and reducing for groups at increased risk of chronic diseases. Healthy Families NZ locations do not fund or deliver services, or interventions within their communities, but accelerate and mobilize action within the health system and beyond. This has been a crucial difference by Healthy Families NZ compared to previous initiatives funded by Ministry of Health.