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  • Reducing the spread of antibiotic resistance in New Zealand, action is long overdue!

    … infections that may have a significant impact on the health of the unwell person. Any reductions in this antibiotic use may harm the health of the unwell person. And there are some conditions … Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), and collaborators 19 While Te Whatu Ora and the Royal New Zealand College of …
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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … declined since its peak in the 1960s, after the serious health risks it poses became clear. Government policies and … specific date. Achieving endgame goals will bring profound health benefits but face opposition. Tobacco companies have … without ever understanding what that addiction would mean.[19] Yet these measures face powerful opposition. Despite …
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  • Keeping public health on the agenda for the new government

    … Summary The Public Health Expert Briefing will be highlighting evidence-informed public health solutions in a new series: Briefings to the Incoming … and new areas of focus. What doesn’t change are the health and sustainability challenges we face as a country. …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Improving the cost, composition and availability of foods can save lives

    … of processed food. This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. … food environment can have important effects on population health. Poor diet and obesity cause cardiovascular disease, …
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  • Media release: Why we need an Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

    … pandemics which have the potential to be far worse than Covid-19 according to global health and infectious disease experts. In the latest Briefing …
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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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  • What the fizz! A week of dealing to sugary drinks in NY and NZ

    … the world of soft drinks. The surprising darling of public health action on soft drinks, New York, suffered a set-back … Supreme Court Appellate Division said that Bloomberg’s health board had gone too far in stopping sales of non-diet … international poster child for local government public health action on obesity.  (Interestingly from a New Zealand …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … sales of smoked tobacco products. Although supported by health researchers, we know little about how young people – … benefits, with the SFG delivering around 5.6 times the health gain per capita to Māori relative to non-Māori, due … Health Research Council of New Zealand (programme grant (19/641). A story commenting on these findings is now …
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  • Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact

    … and reduce smoking rates – while benefiting population health and generating savings on health care spending (1-3). Within the last decade in NZ, …
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  • Red meat & processed meat: Summarising the Public Health isues

    … perspective on other aspects of meat consumption on human health and the environment, and risk communication.   The cancer agency of the World Health Organization, the International Agency for Research on … those 100 lifetime bacon-eaters” ( http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34615621 ) Only 12.7% of the NZ adult population …
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