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  • Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax

    … Associate Professor Nick Wilson, University of Otago Wellington An article we published last week … That is livestock agribusiness is not currently sustainable in terms of greenhouse gas production, water … New Zealand should strive to be a leader in research and development that does all of: maintaining our competitive …
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  • Beyond unhelpful dichotomies: a co-regulatory approach to protecting children from junk food marketing

    … It is a good time to reflect not only on the content of those approaches, but also the regulatory frameworks for … approach that could be applied to the strengthening of junk food marketing restrictions to children.   “Black and … and you’ve got a shiny example of a co-regulatory development process. Drawing on my research about FoPL …
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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … health.  We will traverse the range from birth to end of life care and death, efficiency versus equity, learning … Myself and academic colleagues will blog about issues of the day, and issues that should be issues of the day.  We undertake to make this blog informative, …
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  • Proposed vaping regulations for NZ: Strengths and limitations

    … minimising uptake by young people. Its proposed extension of prohibitions on advertising and sponsorship from tobacco … we discuss the provisions, as summarised in the Ministry of Health’s Factsheet , and outline important questions that … the final Act should address. The Bill brings the prospect of some welcome clarity about the regulation of vaping …
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  • Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study

    … Yet there are interventions that can reduce the risk of falls. In this blog we examine some programme options. … in the programme, the health gains over the remainder of their lives would be 47,100 quality-adjusted life-years … 95% uncertainty interval [UI]: 22,300 to 74,400). In terms of “value-for-money”, the incremental cost-effectiveness …
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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 … a critical public health concern. The health consequences of energy poverty cost the health system over $38 million per … to broader well-being impacts and increases the risk of severe mental distress. 2 Living in energy poverty exposes …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … as its impact will be more long term.   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective … and cultural wellbeing of Māori , constraining their development aspirations and opportunities .    Most health … interventions have a strong basis in evidence, logic and theory. Relying on these strong foundations means there is …
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  • Proposed Emissions Reduction Plan: A weak response to a weak target

    … emissions trading and technological advances, the latter of which are highly speculative and uncertain. Even if the … reducing emissions in the first place. 6 After 40 years of development, few CCS projects exist globally and storage of … University of Otago Prof Ralph Sims, Emeritus Professor of Sustainable Energy and Climate Mitigation at Massey. Prof …
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  • The need for an expanded national smokefree law – just got more critical

    … A just released Judicial Review has opened up the question of how “open areas” of buildings (where smoking is permitted in New Zealand) are … practice. In this blog post we consider the implications of this ruling and why it heightens the need for an expanded …
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  • Food taxes and subsidies will probably protect health & reduce inequalities – but the devil is in the detail

    … in the last few weeks on food taxes and subsidies – both of which depend on what are called price elasticities.  Timely, in light of the launch last week of Appetite for Destruction that is … release here ).  This is entirely consistent with economic theory – and data about price impacts for other consumer …
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