595 Results

  • Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research

    … into a wider context of how nutrition could be improved in NZ. This study was done given the high importance of dietary … we aimed to model the health benefits and costs for NZ of reducing salt intakes – given this is a country that … processed foods (which has already been happening to some NZ food such as soups). In our study, published in the …
    Briefing

  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … We were involved in a study published in last Friday’s NZ Medical Journal that tried to answer that question from a NZ public health perspective. In this blog we discuss what we … technological tools for health research and promotion in NZ. In NZ, tobacco use and overweight/obesity are the two …
    Briefing

  • International index ranks Aotearoa New Zealand last for effective alcohol policy

    … policy and compares scores in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) relative to other similar jurisdictions in 2022/3. … Four countries scored above average and higher than NZ both in the overall score and in three of the four policy … Wim van Dalen, Ashley Wettlaufer and Thomas Graydon–Guy for assistance with data collection. … International …
    Briefing

  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … based at the University of Auckland, has been monitoring NZ’s food environments since 2014. Our first comprehensive … from 2014 to 2017 1 concluded that the food environment in NZ is largely unhealthy. Since then, there have been a few … commitments and actions aimed towards improvement of NZ diets. But have these made an impact on the food …
    Briefing

  • Cyclone Gabrielle by the numbers – A review at six months

    … regions of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) in February 2023. It joined the list of NZ’s mass fatality events with 11 people losing their lives. … Author details Professor Nick Wilson , Adele Broadbent  & Dr John Kerr . All authors are based at the Public Health …
    Briefing

  • Protecting fresh waterways in Aotearoa/NZ: The strong Public Health case

    … process which ends on 31 October.   Introduction   The NZ Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has recently published … water quality has recently become an important issue in NZ with increased public concern and political attention. … has become increasingly intensive and over the same period NZ’s waterways have shown a range of indicators of degraded …
    Briefing

  • Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks

    … survey of political parties in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) about policies to strengthen the country's resilience to … University of Otago, Wellington, and Director of the PHCC Dr John Kerr , Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, and Science Lead, PHCC Dr Matt Boyd , Director, Adapt Research Ltd None of the …
    Briefing

  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … measures, are highly consistent with those made in the NZ tobacco control sector’s Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa Plan … all peoples in Aotearoa.   When the Labour/New Zealand (NZ) First/Green Government formed in October 2017, there were … efforts to reduce their impact. It comprised a review of NZ and international literature; an analysis of secondary …
    Briefing

  • Media release: Poverty and disadvantage fuel NZ’s rising rates of dementia

    … 60% higher for people living in the most deprived areas of NZ compared to those in the least deprived areas. Dr ‘Etuini Ma’u and co-authors from the Department of … in areas of high social disadvantage and poverty.” Dr Ma’u says this presents opportunities for prevention with …
    News

  • Throwing open the windows: The need for ventilation improvements as part of Covid-19 outbreak control in Aotearoa

    … and filtration are needed for indoor settings in Aotearoa NZ. In this blog we address the particular need to improve … not been a focus of efforts to reduce transmission in the NZ setting. This is despite the identification of ventilation … to multiple quarantine system failures in Australia and NZ [15, 16]. For example, after three transmission events at …
    Briefing

Subscribe

Briefing CTA

Public Health Expert Briefing

Get the latest insights from the public health research community delivered straight to your inbox for free. Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest research, analysis and commentary from the Public Health Expert Briefing.

PHCC logo PHCC

The PHCC is funded by a philanthropic endowment from the Gama Foundation and hosted by the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington.

Contact

Email phcc@phcc.org.nz
43 Hanson Street, Mt Cook, 
Wellington | Te Whanganui-a-Tara
PO Box 7343, Wellington South 6242
New Zealand | Aotearoa

 

Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)