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  • Tax policy as a key health determinant: Reform for the Covid-19 reset

    … is the way we all share our resources in contributing to a healthy, decent and just society. Tax reform options should … become less progressive than they were in the 1980s. 1 As a flat tax, GST takes a bigger chunk out of the incomes of … Marshall Plan’, similar to that used to rebuild Europe after World War II. This should require multinational …
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  • Dropping the ball on measles? Aotearoa must close an ‘immunity gap’ to avoid a measles epidemic

    … requirements for primary schools and pre-schools to reach a 95% plus coverage target. It is these institutions that … to new measles cases arising in the community to have a stronger immunisation component.  The global increase in … exposure to the case and mostly contacts are identified after this time. To date, there has been limited use of wider …
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  • More evidence that elimination is the best COVID-19 control strategy for health and the economy

    … In this blog we briefly consider a new report from a European think tank that aims to identify an optimal … in health and economic terms. Nevertheless, more data and a longer-term perspective is needed, before we can be really …
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  • Tax policy reform: equity, fairness, and health

    … money for public services  to deal effectively with a daunting range of economic, social, health and climate … change crises . Our tax system does not regard wealth as a source of revenue: we do not tax assets, inheritances, or … over $180,000. A 2% annual tax on net wealth over $2m (net after debts subtracted) eg, an annual $20,000 on $3m net …
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  • Plugging the gap: Aotearoa’s piped water loss far worse than global leaders

    … countries such as the Netherlands (5%) and Germany (6%). A more sophisticated metric (the Infrastructure Leakage … were entirely gravity-powered, unlike modern-day systems often requiring electrically powered pumps. One Roman … water filters or buy bottled water.  Additional problems after natural hazard events: Aging pipes are more likely to …
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  • Phasing out smoking: The Tobacco-Free Generation policy

    … The NZ Government has published a discussion document outlining an Action Plan for achieving … TFG disallows the sale of tobacco to individuals born after a certain date. In the Smokefree 2025 discussion … less than 3% of secondary students smoked weekly or more often, and prevalence among 15-24 year olds has also been …
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  • Faster mortality decline – slower population ageing. How could this be?

    … of number of New Zealanders aged 65 plus Have you sat in a meeting recently, or listened to the radio, where someone is invoking the aging population as a harbringer of doom and gloom due to the tsunami of older … are other significant differences as well. These include cognitive improvements (the “Flynn effect” applies at all …
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  • Vaccination is often cost-effective but not (currently) HPV vaccination for boys in NZ

    … This blog looks at a study we just published on a cost-utility analysis around … results into a wider context of vaccination – which is often, but not always, a good use of limited health sector … would always be a better investment. Vaccination of boys, after achieving a more intensive (73% uptake) for girls, only …
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  • The science is certain: masks work. Policy and practice must support their use

    … Summary A new comprehensive evidence review has concluded that masks have a valuable role in preventing the spread of infectious … and widely worn when indoor air quality is poor and infection risk is high. Why Aotearoa New Zealand needs to act …
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  • Digesting things further: High dietary salt intakes are almost certainly problematic

    … We recently did a blog post on dietary salt and health , particularly with regard to a new large prospective study (the PURE Study). This … to completely rule out reverse causation, it could be that undiagnosed pathological processes were reducing their sodium …
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