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  • Would a sugary fizzy drink tax reduce health inequalities? Probably Yes

    … A possible tax on sweetened sugary beverages (SSBs, and in particular sugary carbonated soft drinks) is topical … on health as, say, reduction of salt in processed food or food reformulation to reduce sugar and satur The NZMA in … of SSB Tax Imagine (not unrealistically) the following: 1. As a percentage of total energy intake, SSBs make up a …
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  • When can COVID-19 be Declared Eliminated from NZ? New Modelling Study

    … In it we estimated that it would take between 27 and 33 days of no new detected cases of COVID-19 for there to … for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic virus that causes COVID-19. 1 In Australia, such a goal has been discussed as a potential … never had cases of COVID-19 and for whom NZ is the main or only air-traffic transit hub (eg, Samoa, Tonga, Cook …
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  • Improving our pandemic preparedness: Counterfactuals and continuous quality improvement

    … future. One approach is to think about strategic decisions and their counterfactuals. That means comparing our … favouring elimination for pandemics that have similar or greater clinical severity to Covid-19. We can also draw on … what might have happened if NZ had taken a different path. 1 Rather than imagining a world without the pandemic, a more …
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  • Monitoring CO2 indoors for improving ventilation as a Covid-19 control tool

    … for estimating the level of ventilation in a building and to guide ventilation improvements in schools and … states that the virus can spread in “poorly ventilated and/or crowded indoor settings”. This is also the case with the … contact with contaminated surfaces (fomite transmission) [1]. While droplets fall to the ground, aerosols can float in …
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  • Proposed vaping regulations for NZ: Strengths and limitations

    … the Government’s long-awaited Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill on Sunday 23 … to smokers who wish to use them to help them stop smoking or as substitutes for cigarettes.  It has been designed to … products, a measure that we have supported previously. 1   Beliefs that exhaled vaping aerosol are simply steam mean …
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  • Protecting children and young people from unethical junk food marketing: Upgrading the advertising codes

    …   Figure 1: McDonald’s supporting junior football in New Zealand – … Food could be substantially improved to protect children and young people from obesity and poor oral health. Although … is unethical, since children cannot properly understand or interpret advertising messages and are heavily persuaded …
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  • Human health impacts of plastic exposure – an evolving evidence base

    … five years, notably from chemical additives in plastics and plastic particles themselves. This evidence strengthens … on how to address the wicked problem of plastic pollution. 1 The evidence base for environmental harm caused by plastic … Plastic particles may be used in manufactured products or be released from plastic items during use, inevitably …
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  • Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data

    … There are striking inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality in NZ, by both ethnicity and socioeconomic … is 7 years less than for European/Pakeha New Zealanders (1). Also four times as many Māori women die of lung cancer … incidence, ethnic group, income group, education level, or age-group. Through the drop down menus, users can focus on …
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  • An open letter to Cabinet Ministers from 74 health professors calling for a sugary drinks tax

    … on 2 April 2016. Professors Boyd Swinburn, Rod Jackson, and Cliona Ni Mhurchu led the writing.  Dear Cabinet … general anaesthetic operations to remove rotten teeth (1). We applaud the government for making childhood obesity a … have rotten teeth extracted every year under general or local anaesthetic. … An open letter to Cabinet Ministers …
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  • Will the Health Star Rating labels improve people’s diets?

    … to have informative yet easy-to-use nutrition labelling, and effective labelling is one tool to help control the … new Health Star Rating label truly a win-win consensus, or might too much have been given away to reach a compromise? … introduce the Multiple Traffic Light (MTL) label system (1). Ministers expanded on this decision, saying they had : …
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