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  • The UK Government shows leadership with a Soft Drink Tax announcement

    … adults, and it is clear that Kiwis far exceed the World Health Organization free sugars target of less than 10% of … ensuring public support for new taxes designed to protect health or the environment. Is this new tax likely to work? … purchases (7), and modelling work is suggestive of health benefits (e.g., this NZ modelling work (8). …
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  • Lessons from jurisdictions that are battling their own Delta variant outbreaks

    … of the pandemic virus. In this blog we discuss public health responses employed in other jurisdictions in response … to the Alert Levels and improvements to ventilation management. There is also a need to strengthen border control … outbreak responses to inform current and future public health measures in NZ. Why is the Delta variant such a …
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  • Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?

    … will be based on Healthy Together Victoria (HTV) which the Health Minister, Tony Ryall, visited on a recent trip to … of Healthy Together Victoria: Victorian Minister for Health, Hon David Davis, Prof Boyd Swinburn, Dr Alan Shiell, … and solutions to put into an election platform and, in health, the failure to address obesity is a biggie. Two out …
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  • Action needed to halt New Zealand’s obesity epidemic: Themes from Big Food Symposium

    … International and national public health experts and delegates met on Monday this week to … initiative recently announced by the Minister of Health, they stress the critical need to focus on upstream … costs are a mix of costs to the tax payer funded health system (approximately $6 billion) and lost …
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  • Improving our pandemic preparedness: Counterfactuals and continuous quality improvement

    … Covid-19 inquiry ( see Appendix ). 4 The British Medical Association also  reported on the devastating impact of the pandemic on UK health care delivery. 5 The Phase 2 Inquiry has a particular … (like RATs or the COVID-19 Tracer app), and public health materials (like masks).” We highlight evidence related …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … The objective of the Crown providing funding for health practitioners to deliver assisted dying services is to … objective is that: CA1 Entitlement to Make a Claim b. the health practitioner must not: i. be providing the assisted … services in their capacity as an employee of a District Health Board; ii. be entitled to have the claim satisfied …
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  • Aotearoa’s skin cancer crisis: The case for sun safety action

    … Summary Each year, Aotearoa New Zealand’s (NZ) health system treats tens of thousands of skin cancers, the … investment to reduce UVR exposure and improve public health outcomes, and make skin cancer prevention a national … making it one of the country’s most common and preventable health conditions. 1 The financial impact is considerable, …
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  • The changing COVID-19 situation in Taiwan – what can NZ learn from Taiwan’s latest outbreak?

    … the SARS epidemic, Taiwan established the National Health Command centre (NHCC) in 2004 which works alongside … test: COVID-19 in Taiwan. Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi, 2020. 119 (4): p. 884-885. Lin … Teng JH, Tu P, and Mullen J, Policy Decisions and Use of Information Technology to Fight 2019 Novel Coronavirus …
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  • Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?

    … 50%+ in Māori men and 71%+ in Pacific men. The World Health Organization recommends all countries consider … yet little has been done toward this goal in NZ. The NZ health system needs to consider the value of adding H. pylori … countries). A pilot could be designed to provide local information on the effectiveness, feasibility and …
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  • About us

    … Our story The Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC) is dedicated to increasing the reach and impact of public health research, making it more accessible to the public and … intersection of Aotearoa New Zealand’s world-class public health research, public understanding, and evidence-informed …
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