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  • How might NZ expand community water fluoridation?

    … The recently published Report on the safety of water fluoridation (Royal Society of … for the oral health of New Zealanders.   The new Report [1], provides an updated review of the evidence for … with adverse impacts on child intelligence). The report discusses mild dental fluorosis as a potential …
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  • Ten things we can learn from new smoking and vaping data about progress to Smokefree Aotearoa 2025

    … NZ Health Survey (NZHS) data as available on the 2018-19 annual data explorer website ( … https://minhealthnz.shinyapps.io/nz-health-survey-2018-19-annual-data-explorer/ ). The figures reported are unadjusted … of about 1.5% per year. Prevalence then halved again by 2016/17 (3.9%), a reduction of about 0.8% per year. Since …
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  • Protecting children in cars from tobacco smoke: The inconsistent case of new mandatory child restraints while optional smoking persists

    … remain exposed to hazardous second hand tobacco smoke (SHS) in vehicles. This blog ask why regulators are prepared … jeopardised by smoking in cars is magnitudes higher. The annual ASH year 10 surveys reveal that nearly one quarter of 14–15 year olds were exposed to SHS during an average week (23% in 2012). 6 These results …
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  • The rising influence of big business on policymaking: What it means for public health in NZ

    … Summary The World Health Organization recently released a report on social determinants of health equity that outlined … communities often disproportionately affected. The report called for more work to analyse and manage the … managed. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) recent report on  Social Determinants of Health Equity calls …
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  • Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?

    … the latest Census results on smoking. We then modelled annual increases in tobacco excise tax of 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% (with 10% reflecting the annual increase legislated by the NZ Government to 2016). The modelling results suggest that with a continued …
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  • Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory

    … electricity retailers mandatory to protect health. A new report shows up to 55% of residential consumers are not … and the Electricity Authority has just released its first report of an annual assessment for 2021-2022 on compliance. Voluntary …
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  • Taxing tobacco in NZ: What we know and what could be next

    … A series of seven annual tobacco tax increases, typically at the 10% level, will end in January 2016 unless it is extended by the NZ Government. In this blog … policy and research. Recent trends The recent pattern of annual tobacco tax increases in NZ has been associated with a …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … carcinogen”. Instead the EPA commissioned its own report which found that glyphosate is “unlikely to be … assessment on glyphosate, and instead commissioned its own report. This was written by Dr Wayne Temple, a toxicologist … of the National Poisons Centre, and published in August 2016 [4]. The aim of the EPA review was the same as the IARC …
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  • Tax policy reform: equity, fairness, and health

    … instead of the current top rate of 39% over $180,000. A 2% annual tax on net wealth over $2m (net after debts subtracted) eg, an annual $20,000 on $3m net wealth, along with a wealth … of one element of this under-investment is shown by a 2021 report for government:   ‘The Ministry of Health estimates …
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  • Illicit tobacco trade and the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: Arguments and evidence

    … appears to be the case in NZ also. For example, a 2010 report commissioned by British American Tobacco claimed … represented 3.3% of tobacco consumption in NZ in 2009. A 2016 report commissioned by Philip Morris International (PMI) … had increased to 9% in 2016 and to 12.7% in 2017. An annual tobacco industry-commissioned study on illicit tobacco …
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