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  • The urgent need for a Covid-19 Action Plan for Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … New Zealand (NZ) in early 2022, the Government announced a policy for schools that was essentially a business-as-usual … adverse consequences for school communities. NZ’s pandemic policy for schools needs to pivot to a whānau-centred … the return of other winter respiratory infections. Current policy settings for Covid-19 in schools During Term 1 2022, …
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  • Social advantage associated with greenhouse emissions from transport in Aotearoa

    … New Zealand: this information is essential to design good policy and achieve a fair transition to a low carbon … people who live in the least deprived quintile. Transport policy must focus on measures to reduce emissions that are … reduce inequities. This will require scrutiny of current policy processes, serious attention to transport disadvantage …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … Policy-makers need to know how much of ethnic inequalities in … to determine causal relationships that can shed light on policy-relevant questions.  A half or more of … due to tobacco smoking?” are important questions for policy-makers. The problem is these questions are …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … In this blog we explore that question and explain why policy makers should continue to treat tobacco companies with … a precursor to proposing it should have a role in policy making. Nor is PMI alone in making these claims; … have also joined the “transformation” caravan. Wisely, policy makers have not rested all their hopes on tobacco …
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  • Tobacco Excise Taxes and the Smokefree 2025 Goal: Some Ways Forward

    … intensified as research indicates potentially conflicting policy directions. On the one hand, excise tax increases … outcomes and support continuation of an effective policy intervention. As the last scheduled tobacco excise tax … Peters argues excise taxes have reached the limits of the policy’s effectiveness and have “ less effect on reducing …
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  • Media release: Aotearoa New Zealand ranks lowest in international alcohol policy comparison

    … at the bottom of the list, highlighting urgent gaps in policy settings that could better protect the public from … Centre Briefing , the International Alcohol Control Policy Index is used to assess the strength of alcohol policy across four areas with the strongest evidence of …
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  • Happiness surveys, & can health sector interventions improve well-being?

    … (re)focus on happiness as the goal of living and public policy, superseding a consumerist trajectory since Adam Smith … review ). Chapter 6 in the Report looks at the way policy makers can use “well-being as a policy goal”. The main policy areas considered are health, …
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  • A policy and research agenda for roll-your-own tobacco

    … examining roll-your-own tobacco use and explore potential policy implications. Roll-your-own tobacco (RYO) has … co-morbidities such as mental health illnesses, illicit drug addictions, and risky drinking behaviours (5). Even … more natural and less harmful (16),  our findings suggest policy makers need to reduce the positive attributes young …
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  • Implementing healthy food environment policies in Aotearoa

    … Summary Food-EPI (Healthy Food Environment Policy Index) was recently conducted for the fourth time in … income to make healthy food choices with autonomy. Five policy actions and five infrastructure support actions were … action. A mandatory approach needs to be adopted in many policy areas, such as marketing of unhealthy food to children …
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  • Treaty Principles Bill threatens public health and equity: It needs your submission

    … that would radically alter decades of established law and policy recognising Māori rights. The Bill’s definition … Tiriti o Waitangi and would remove an  important legal and policy mechanism for recognising Māori rights and addressing … mechanism that has been used to promote equity in social policy, including health.  Treaty principles have underpinned …
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