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  • More courage needed from our political parties—reviewing our election series

    … and transport.  Here we summarise each of the articles as well as flagging relevant policy announcements that came after the … long-term thinking would be a longer election term (4-5 years). 3 Our overall verdict from this election series: …
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  • Front-of-pack nutrition labels improve understanding but don’t improve healthy food choices; Starlight Trial just published

    … concluded that labels which interpret healthiness such as Traffic Light labels (TLL) and Health Star Rating (HSR) … of food. But the bottom panel, for all participants (i.e. as per planned analysis) shows no significant effect of …
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  • Global survey shows New Zealanders value science highly, prioritise public health

    … years since the start of the COVID pandemic, it can feel as if trust in the knowledge of experts and scientific … were more supportive of public health measures such as mandatory face masks in public to prevent COVID infection. … effect opinions of a minority can have in society . 5 Vocal and influential voices who distrust science may have …
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  • The need for an expanded national smokefree law – just got more critical

    … that any member of the public would regard such an area as “substantially enclosed” – and hence they argued that it … Act – the effects from smoking there cannot be prevented, as there is no known safe level of tobacco smoke. We argue … with the Government’s Smokefree Nation Goal for 2025. As such it could incorporate major endgame strategies such as
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  • Media release: Government is siding with polluting commercial interests over public health in freshwater proposals

    … align itself with narrow, polluting commercial interests as it proposes to remove key protections in national … water supplies and nationally worsening water quality.” As an example, national data shows 12% of monitored … align with the demands of agricultural lobby groups such as Federated Farmers and DairyNZ, which have lobbied the …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle by the numbers – A review at six months

    … The cost to the country is estimated to be up to $14.5 billion. The large scale of this disaster would have … (see Appendix, Table A1 ). Some of these injuries, such as concussion, can result in months of poor health. These … be up to $14.5 billion. 4 But this estimate could increase as initial repair work gets washed away by ongoing weather …
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  • Would reducing the number of tobacco retail outlets achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal?

    … nation? The best approach to this tobacco endgame, as it is often called, is unclear. Options include ongoing … to a reduction in tobacco consumption of around 2% to 5% in high-income countries). So we used this relationship … to be conservative and under-estimate the true impact, as there would likely be additional denormalisation of …
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  • The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review

    … (41,000), and the long-term burden of disabilities as suggested by war pension payments to veterans in 1921 … influenza pandemic in 1918, but also for conditions such as meningitis. For civilians, there was the psychological … military personnel leaving for war in 1914 was 8.3 years [5]. Number of wounded personnel 41,262 This total is unlikely …
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  • The cost burden of excess weight in New Zealand: Sizing up a new report

    … decades, obesity prevalence has increased substantially, as have health care costs and population size, so it is very … The costs identified in this report need to be read as costs to society for a societal problem. The children and … up with a range of $2-26 billion. This is a wide range, as might be expected, and I would expect it to be closer to …
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  • Media release: Social media age restrictions needed to protect young people from harm

    … media may offer some benefits for some young people, such as helping connect with peers and find support, Dr Marsh … to provide on and offline support for vulnerable youth, as well as empowering communication campaigns.  The Briefing’s …
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