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  • Regulation of alcohol marketing is needed to meet health, wellbeing and equity goals

    … the code. The ASA exemplifies both an ineffective approach to protection of the population from harm, and an explicit commercial conflict of interest. … physical and is distributed inequitably, 2,3 contributing to wider health and social inequities. Social costs of …
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  • Food poverty for NZ teens creating an achievement lag of up to four years

    … is partially explained by the number of students coming to school hungry. For the first time, the PISA study included … decades, maths achievement for 15-year-olds had dropped from fourth in the OECD to 19 th . 1 This rank comes from the … time, PISA 2022 student wellbeing data included data on how many teenagers went hungry due to a lack of money for …
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  • “Action for Healthy Waterways”: some big ticket actions that the Government has neglected

    … gaps. In this blog we consider three big ticket items to include in an integrated strategy to improve our … integrated and holistic health and wellbeing of freshwater from mountains to sea, is a valuable way forward for … nitrogen taxes on fertiliser in a Danish setting [6], and how a nitrogen tax (on fertiliser) compares with other …
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  • Engaging online simulator of measles outbreaks (& how NZ needs to do better in eliminating measles)

    … To help explain the concept of ‘herd immunity’, The Guardian … We comment on why this simulator is informative and how it also demonstrates chance effects in the spread of … that’s the effect of chance. For a community to be really safe from a measles outbreak it pays to have a very high …
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  • Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further

    … group, there are still striking mortality gaps that need to be addressed. Ethnic mortality inequalities are generally … inequalities, NZ policy-makers have many options, ranging from equalising socio-economic factors between ethnic groups, … services. … Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … that New Zealand can use intense public health controls to eradicate COVID-19 from the country – we must also plan … alcohol-related patients were more likely to have a longer stay than others. 5 In NZ, as elsewhere, the patients include … are much more likely after even light alcohol use. 7 How can we reduce non-COVID-19 ED use? So in the time of …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … the troubling state of New Zealand’s food environment due to inaction from successive Governments and calls for this to change. … high in energy and sodium 6 . What surprised us was just how unhealthy some of the meal combos were, with some …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) chose not to accept the assessment of the International Agency for … basis has Dr Rowarth concluded that certain exposures are safe (i.e., do not increase cancer risk)? We are not … by Monsanto? If so, were the figures verified by EPA and how? The questions that arise from the work on glyphosate are …
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  • New standardised packaging regulations: Some good steps, but many missed opportunities

    … Australia’s legislation , but they also miss opportunities to recognise tobacco industry innovations. This blog … benchmark and why these are important, but also examines how the regulations could have gone further and suggests … to the rolling papers and filters used to make cigarettes from RYO tobacco; these should also have been required to …
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  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … smoking. However, there is no robust, independent evidence to support heated tobacco products as smoking cessation … (i.e., more addicted). It is time for the Government to take the evidence-based approach to decision-making that … tax on heated tobacco products (HTPs), despite advice from the Ministry of Health and Treasury. Instead, it …
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