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  • Aotearoa’s skin cancer crisis: The case for sun safety action

    … cancers, the country’s most common cancer. This places a significant and avoidable burden on our healthcare system … public health outcomes, and make skin cancer prevention a national priority. Skin cancer affects two in three  New … in skin cancer prevention initiatives is very strong. A recent nationally representative survey found that 87% of …
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  • Implementing healthy food environment policies in Aotearoa

    … that children see. Sixty experts prioritised the need for a comprehensive multi-sector food systems strategy and for … support actions were prioritised for immediate action. A mandatory approach needs to be adopted in many policy … for public health policy Government needs to act quickly after over a decade of inaction to make progress on …
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  • Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected

    … In 2023, 341 people died in road crashes in NZ . In around a third of these, speed was a contributing factor , and this proportion rises to over … people use time savings to be more productive, which they often don’t. 15 In fact, making it easier to travel further …
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  • New Vaping Bill: Some important progress but critical gaps remain

    … on youth vaping and proposes introducing new measures in a new bill. These include disallowing disposable vapes, … truly wishes to “crack down” on youth vaping, it must take a more comprehensive approach. When vaping products were … could not be located within 300m of schools and marae after August 2023. However, the restrictions did not apply to …
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  • Taxes on fizzy drinks in NZ: preventing premature deaths and raising funds for health

    … A task of public health research is to quantify the health … Medical Journal that finds that about 67 premature deaths a year might be prevented by a 20% tax on fizzy drinks. And … keen to act.  Globally governments and the public realised after the global financial crisis of 2008 that financial …
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  • Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes

    … New Zealanders continue to die every year from smoking and a persistence of associated health inequities.  Introduction … world-leading ‘endgame’ actions with the potential for a ripple effect that could greatly reduce the global … or non-addictive by reducing their nicotine content to a maximum of 0.8 mg/g; a reduction of over 90% compared to a …
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  • Firearms incidents cost Aotearoa $322m a year: Strong laws save lives 

    … shows that although firearm suicide rates decreased after firearms legislation tightened in 1992, firearm … long-term costs to the health system. While public debate often centres on high-profile shooting events, our new study, … the leading cause of firearm death, but it now makes up a smaller share of all suicide deaths and of all firearm …
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  • Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory

    … for electricity retailers mandatory to protect health. A new report shows up to 55% of residential consumers are not … their health. Those earlier guidelines were brought in after the tragic 2007 death of Mrs Folole Muliaga, who had … an electrically powered oxygen machine at home, and died after the electricity at her home was disconnected due to an …
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  • Red meat & processed meat: Summarising the Public Health isues

    … red meat. Here we briefly look at this topic and also take a wider perspective on other aspects of meat consumption on … in humans and strong mechanistic evidence supporting a carcinogenic effect. There is also evidence of associations … actually associated with cancer? Sir David Spiegelhalter, a risk professor at Cambridge University, summarised the …
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  • #JUULGATE Nicotine industry documents highlight the need for greater transparency in public health policy

    … Summary A  cache of thousands of documents released following … from the tobacco industry’s influence, noting: “ There is a fundamental and irreconcilable conflict between the tobacco … at that time. Furthermore, given policy development often occurs over a long period, relationships tobacco …
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