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  • Strong public support for healthy food policies in Aotearoa

    … Summary In Aotearoa New Zealand, poor-quality food contributes … from diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes in Aotearoa New Zealand. An increasing number of New … of healthy food, and back policies such as healthy lunches in schools and a tax on sugary drinks.  That is just one of …
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  • Eliminate the pandemic virus causing COVID-19 or risk an animal reservoir

    … Elimination has been an effective strategy for New Zealand in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic virus … elimination within reach. There is one additional argument in favour of elimination: the longer the highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus circulates in the human population, the greater is the likelihood that …
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  • Unaffordable home heating increases risk of severe mental distress

    … being unable to afford to heat their homes. We know living in cold housing contributes to many negative physical health … also has negative mental health impacts. If we don’t put in place further economic support and policies to protect … energy consumers so that everyone is able to live in warm dry housing, we risk worsening mental health outcomes …
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  • A new review on dietary fats: Putting its findings in context

    … We have concerns about some aspects of this review, in particular the lack of context around the totality of the … ideally being long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (as found in fish, flax seed and nuts). The issue of whether … (CHD) by Rajiv Chowdhury and colleagues has appeared in the journal “Annals of Internal Medicine”. The authors, …
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  • Food and beverage taxes for a healthier diet: The Pacific experience

    … impact of the food environment on chronic disease burdens. In response, the World Health Organization recommends fiscal … policies like taxes on sugary drinks and unhealthy foods. In our region, Pacific countries have led the way with excise … to contribute to underlying growing rates of NCDs in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) such as diabetes, cancer, and …
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  • Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax

    … of debate [1] (some thoughtful, some distortionary), and in particular debate on the complexities of taxing food. In this blog I argue that, yes, such tax packages have to be … could be potentially gained by taxes on saturated fat. In the paper we published in the Australian and New Zealand …
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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … 2024 World Happiness report (WHR24) found a steep decline in the mental wellbeing of youth. Findings from New … World Happiness report (WHR24) has revealed a steep drop in the mental wellbeing of young people. Happiness levels have fallen significantly in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, by …
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  • The case for lowering salt levels in processed foods is now even stronger – new research

    … for lowering dietary salt intakes became a bit confused in recent years by studies which suggested that both low … sodium intake measured by the gold standard method of [the average of] several 24-hour urine collections, had a direct … people eat, the higher their risk of death. However, the average estimated sodium intake from several spot urines …
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  • What does art have to do with public health, and how can they work together?

    … architect, and public health practitioners and academics. In this blog we consider some of the issues raised and build … from complex environmental and socio-economic processes, in particular, climate change and growing social and health … and had four sessions. Session One: Public Health & Art in dialogue After a welcome from UOW’s Rautaki Hononga Māori, …
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  • It’s been 3 years since COVID entered New Zealand – here are 3 ways to improve our response

    … of Covid-19 from year three of the pandemic is resulting in frequent infection and reinfection with associated … health effects. This strategy needs to be delivered in an effective and equitable way. An integrated respiratory … 28 marks three years since COVID was first reported in Aotearoa New Zealand. Since then there have been major …
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