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Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames
… health risks it poses became clear. Government policies and social marketing campaigns have progressively reduced … smoking is a personal choice. In this blog, we expand on research exploring smoking’s trajectory and declining … will need to address. Social norms govern many aspects of our everyday lives by defining what practices we view as …
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Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?
… to tackle our escalating obesity crisis. It will be based on Healthy Together Victoria (HTV) which the Health Minister, … – what is HTV, how could it be adapted for New Zealand, and will it work? The launch of Healthy Together Victoria: Victorian Minister for Health, …
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Front-of-pack nutrition labels improve understanding but don’t improve healthy food choices; Starlight Trial just published
… Health Star Rating and Traffic Light nutrition labels have a minor impact on New Zealand consumer healthy food choices, according to a … from our HRC-funded DIET Programme based at the University of Auckland. This is important evidence for policy. We had …
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Energy poverty: The lowest-income households pay more in Aotearoa
… to rise significantly from 2025, due to a combination of factors putting pressure on Aotearoa New Zealand’s electricity system. This is … countries means we use more electric heating to keep warm and healthy over winter. The evidence shows that those who …
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Why don’t we make rental housing safer?
… interventions? We unpack the narrative around home injury and find progress in addressing safety via rental housing … by institutional arrangements that favour the framing of home injury as a product of individual behaviour and … their houses modified with the installation of handrails on stairs; grab rails for bathrooms; outside lighting; edging …
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Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?
… obesity expert Dr Robyn Toomath outlines the dogmas and arguments for the ‘individual-responsibility’ explanation and (lack of) solution to the obesity epidemic. She then points to the … (Auckland University Press). If you stop and ask people on the street, nine out of ten (including the overweight …
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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 … New Zealand towards adopting a sugary drink tax. As part of the policy briefing prepared for this FIZZ Symposium, we … 1 January 2018 the UK will implement a tiered levy based on the sugar content of drinks on the beverage industry (more …
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Being forced to leave your rental home can harm health
… found that eviction can harm health through causing stress and grief, and precipitating a move into homeless or to a … situation. We argue that reducing the incidence and impact of evictions is an important public health and social welfare … stayed in a caravan for two months, her two-year-old daughter got sick: ‘she picked up a really bad cold and we …
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Faster mortality decline – slower population ageing. How could this be?
… SNZ predictions of number of New Zealanders aged 65 plus Have you sat in a … is invoking the aging population as a harbringer of doom and gloom due to the tsunami of older people with poor … social services, etc. Have you then asked yourself “Hang on a minute, if people are living longer are they not also …
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That old chestnut again – does any alcohol consumption reduce cardiovascular disease risk? More evidence for “no”.
… The so-called J-shaped curve. We summarised the ‘state of play’ on this topic at PHE Blog in early 2014 . In the last few … taxation even more justified. In this blog, we explain and critique this latest study in the British Medical …
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