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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Improving the cost, composition and availability of foods can save lives

    … looks at solutions in the food system: reducing the cost and increasing the availability of healthy food and reformulation of processed food. This blog is part of the … ), which has been estimated to reduce dietary cost by 13% or $28.70 a week for an average family of four . Or …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … New Zealand has been a world leader in the smokefree arena and is doubling down on its efforts to reach the 2025 goal. … This blog asks if it is enough to aim just for smokefree or whether Te Tiriti o Waitangi demands we aim higher and … in this group smoke compared with only 8% of non-Māori (1). It is further obliged under the UN Convention on the …
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  • What can Aotearoa NZ learn from Australia’s new vaping policies?

    … product imports, end sales of disposable vaping products, and decrease the appeal of vaping to young people. Should NZ … vapes, which are young people’s product of choice. 1 While the details still need to be outlined, these measures … , Australia has not announced plans to denicotinise or greatly reduce the availability of smoked tobacco products …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle by the numbers – A review at six months

    … Gabrielle caused significant damage across northern and eastern regions of the North Island of Aotearoa New … there has been an inquiry into slash and land use , 1 2 and an ongoing review of the Hawke’s Bay Civil Defence … account of the mental stress faced by people with damaged or written off homes and livelihoods. The Treasury has …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … is very dynamic (new products, changing ways people vape) and there is no evidence yet about long-term effects of … that vapers take longer inhalations than do smokers (eg, 1-4). Further, many models of vaporisers have adjustable … measure excreted metabolites (such as in exhaled breath or urine), were more likely to capture the impacts from what …
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  • Social media and youth wellbeing: The need for a multi-layered public health approach

    … approach that includes action at all levels to protect and promote the health of individual children and the wider … and teens represents a pressing public health challenge. 1 There is a growing body of evidence linking social media … provoke a similar reaction, so it's crucial when policies or public health campaigns are introduced that we track and …
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  • Monitoring and forecasting the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand including the successful impact of the lockdown

    … Dr Jaijus Pallippadan-Johny 1 , Dr John McDermott 2 , Rodney Jones 1 and Michael Duddin 1 ( 1 Wigram Capital Advisors, Auckland; 2 … when an outbreak can be seeded by travellers from abroad, or by movement between cities and regions within a country. …
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  • How much revenue would a New Zealand sugary drink tax raise? And how might be best to do it?

    … Professors Tony Blakely and Cliona Ni Mhurchu Last week a FIZZ symposium was run in … We also consider implementation options.   Many countries or jurisdictions have put in place a sugary drink tax, and from 1 January 2018 the UK will implement a tiered levy based on …
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  • And now the Brits are doing it: A sugary drink tax levy on the industry

    … From 1 April 2018, the UK is putting in place a type of sugary … reviews how they are doing it, early signs of its success, and ponders its relevance for NZ.  We also take this … strong evidence that SSB experimental research funded by or associated with the beverage industry reports biased …
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  • Living longer, living healthier? Latest Official Report on independent life expectancy in NZ

    … in good health. The good news? We are both living longer, and living longer in good health. The bad news? According to … with some dependency due to poor health is increasing. And there are marked inequalities in healthy life expectancy. … topic, and is sometimes framed in terms of the compression or expansion of morbidity. You need to be able to think …
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