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  • Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation

    … measures the Government should implement rapidly, to reflect its commitment to achieving the Smokefree 2025 … disquiet . The Government urgently needs to demonstrate how it will realise the goal set by a previous National … in 2012 , plain packaging transformed tobacco packages from marketing media to health promoting platforms and …
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  • Mortality declines in Aotearoa NZ during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic

    … first 2 years of the pandemic and there has also been time to prepare the country for the current Omicron wave.     Over … . The measure is defined as the ‘difference between how many people died during the pandemic, from any cause, and … the associated use of tight border controls (quarantine), stay at home orders (‘lockdowns’), and other public health …
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  • Covid-19: A planetary disease

    … and other planetary crises. I argue that major changes to our relationship with our planet and its creatures are … we went to seek them out.’ 1 Human beings have suffered from diseases arising from contact with animals since time … Preventing the next pandemic – Zoonotic diseases and how to break the chain of transmission) This blog is a much …
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  • The UK Government shows leadership with a Soft Drink Tax announcement

    … 25 teaspoons (1,2). Beverages are the highest contributor to total sugars intake for Kiwi kids and the second highest … rate of obesity in the OECD and many children suffer from tooth decay. In response to similar problems in the UK, … for a tax on sugary drinks. We have previously outlined how difficult it is to estimate precisely the health impact …
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  • Aotearoa’s government-funded school lunches failing nutrition standards

    … teens. Despite all providers being contractually obliged to meet the Ministry of Education’s Nutrition Standards, none … (Only 13 out of 53 SLC meals had sufficient information to assess them.) Along with the other well-published … Programme 1 was radically changed to save costs, moving from a model consisting of local suppliers to a large …
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  • Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?

    … The Government announced the Healthy Families NZ initiative to tackle our escalating obesity crisis. It will be based on … are available, it is pertinent to ask – what is HTV, how could it be adapted for New Zealand, and will it work? … are. Third, it has very visible and strong leadership from the Health Minister, David Davis, and a highly dynamic …
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  • Preventing diabetes: What does the latest modelling evidence tell us about health gains and cost savings?

    … investment in interventions of proven effectiveness to prevent type 2 diabetes could substantially benefit … diabetes [1]. However, men are more likely than women to have diabetes, Māori and Asian New Zealanders are twice as … incidence [7]. The majority of this modelled gain comes from the impacts of reducing diabetes directly, but as …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Good health in childhood is vital for lifelong wellbeing: time for a preventive approach

    … series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. Childhood provides … inadequate household income, and poor housing, leading to under-nutrition, recurrent illness, and high levels of … before the pandemic, immunisation coverage increased from a low base through a multi-pronged approach . Large …
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  • Politicians in Aotearoa NZ live longer than other Kiwis and the gap keeps widening

    … Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). The NZ politicians were found to live at least 5 years longer than the general NZ … is the lower smoking rate of NZ politicians compared to the rest of the population. Perhaps it is time for NZ … politicians in 11 countries where data were available from 1816 to 2017 (Australia, Austria, Canada, France, …
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  • Ireland leads New Zealand in the battle against obesity

    … visiting her home-country, Ireland. Cliona sent an email to myself and other Kiwis during that time outlining the … Government is planning on obesity and food – a far cry from the state of play in New Zealand. Which has led to this … adults and 33% of children). What is different however is how the two countries are tackling a problem that has serious …
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