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  • Public Health at the Movies: A Selection of 35 Top Movies

    … We have assembled a collection of 35 high quality movies as part of public health teaching for medical students. In this blog post we detail the movies and reflect on some of the aspects that make them both educational and …
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  • Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic

    … that tobacco – and for that matter alcohol – with orders of magnitude more harm gets the wet bus ticket regulatory … sorted out by lunch time. Party pills – sales now subject of stringent regulation – in contrast to tobacco and alcohol … Psychoactive Substances Act, which introduces regulation of ‘party pills’, came into force on August 1 st 2013 with …
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  • Social contract needed to deliver a 'no BS' public health agenda

    … with little regard to any economic understanding of the true productive resource constraints. Financial and … with little connection to an economic lens, outside of its gratuitous title of Going for Growth . As always, there are claimed …
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  • Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?

    … are disinvesting, check out the Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5 th … released on November 2. This sums up the thousands of pages written by three Working Groups on climate sciences, … revolution, one that turns the old model of carbon-heavy development on its head, surely it makes a lot of sense to …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … product changes that sustain the appeal and addictiveness of smoked tobacco products. How did filters become an integral component of cigarettes? Cigarettes initially had no filters. … to prevent sore throats” (see Figure below). As the harms of smoking became well-established, 1 2 filters’ role as a …
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  • Regulatory Standards Bill threatens the public interest, public health and Māori rights

    … establish “a benchmark for good legislation through a set of principles of responsible regulation”, thereby enhancing governmental … flawed. Moreover, many principles that have guided the development of modern welfare states, including improving …
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  • New Zealanders strongly support policies to curb alcohol harm – will government listen?

    … causes significant harm to the health and wellbeing of the consumer, their families, and society as a whole, … for Māori who experience a disproportionate amount of harm.   New independent public polling commissioned by … affordability, advertising, and protecting policy development from alcohol industry influence. These findings …
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  • Should NZ spend relatively more health resources on improving men’s health?

    … discusses if there is a plausible case for shifting more of the available health resources towards improving male health. Figure: Years of life lived in good and poor health (based on data in: Ministry of Health 2013 ) The key data has been produced by the …
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  • Targeting a new generation – time for a greater focus on smoking uptake prevention?

    … The theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is how the tobacco … Aotearoa equitably and sustainably. The importance of supporting smoking cessation Discussions about how to … to realise the Smokefree goal, will require large numbers of existing smokers to quit. 1 Also, there is a strong …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … Getting Through Together already provides a statement of shared values which can be used to guide a wide range of responses. In response to Wilson and Baker’s timely piece … decisions that are needed.   We are at phase 1 and 2 of the New Zealand (Influenza) Pandemic Plan : ‘plan for it’, …
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