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  • Transport, carbon emission reduction and health- the possibility of a virtuous circle?

    … note: In this Blog, Caroline Shaw and Simon Hales reflect on the weak evidence on health co-benefits for some ‘big’ environmental policies, … of these policies. One study estimated that if trips under 7km in urban centres in NZ were done on bike rather …
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  • Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

    … in the Budget to build an extra 3,000 new public homes on top of the 14,050 homes which have already been funded by … Ora has so far built 11,830 public homes with a further 4,500 under way. T here was a welcome reduction of 10 percent in …
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  • How can we address tobacco companies’ manipulation of cigarette prices?

    … Pricing is one of the most potent influences on consumers’ behaviour. Governments around the world have … blog, we discuss the findings of our just published paper on pricing and changes in the NZ tobacco market during a … these measures by differentially ‘over-shifting’ or ‘under-shifting’ the tax increases, (i.e., increasing prices …
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  • The UK Government shows leadership with a Soft Drink Tax announcement

    … increase if manufacturers and retailers fully pass it on to the shelf price (without reducing their profit … billion. The UK Government says it will spend the revenue on fitness programmes and extended school hours for children … to children on all media as recommended in the ECHO Report (see a previous blog on SSB tax implementation). These …
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  • Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts

    … public settings.  This Briefing reviews overseas evidence on the economic impact of Long Covid, considers its potential … Long Covid: growing recognition of a substantial impact on population health Long Covid refers to a change in health … discussion of the types of impacts that Long Covid has on the workforce and some estimates of their prevalence). …
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  • Long COVID: Century-old Lessons We Still Have Not Learned

    … and police, and in some towns, people were not permitted on public transport or allowed to enter a theatre or cinema … data from: i) the ten contributing studies; ii) two large medical record databases in the US; and iii) findings from 44 … suggested that people with long COVID were less likely to report long COVID symptoms shortly after vaccination and over …
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  • Limiting the size of single serve sugary drinks: New NZ study on health and cost impacts

    … There is a lot of focus on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) internationally, due to … be cost-effective in NZ [5]. In this Blog we elaborate on the issues and consider this intervention in the context … analysis or interpretation of data, in the writing of the report, or in the decision to submit the article for …
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  • Covid-19 Hospitalisations Now Peaking in Aotearoa NZ – But Key Covid-19 Control Measures Still Need to be Maintained

    … daily case numbers. This is because case numbers massively under-represent true infections in the community since some … in hospital with a Covid-19 diagnosis peaked for Auckland on 15 March 2022, but for the rest of NZ this peak is still … the peak hospitalisation burden for all NZ (971 cases on 16 March) is lower than has been seen with Omicron in …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … that denicotinising smoked tobacco products could have on smoking prevalence in Aotearoa New Zealand. A policy … modelling study that we recently published as a pre-print on the medRxiv site . 1 Methods Using an Excel spreadsheet … the commonly used indicator of achieving Smokefree 2025 of under 5% smoking prevalence will be achieved for the overall …
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  • Regulatory Standards Bill threatens the public interest, public health and Māori rights

    … existing legislation conform to these principles. Similar Bills, promoted since the 2000s by the ACT party, have been … Standards Bill (RSB)   was introduced into Parliament on 19 May 2025. It is currently being considered by the … released by the Minister for Regulation in May 2025 , the  Report of the Waitangi Tribunal on the Proposed Regulatory …
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