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  • Likely rise in invasive strep infections in NZ requires a strategy

    … 10 the most affected group. In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) a 2016 report noted that iGAS infections had increased over the … per 100 000 people in 2002 10 to  9 per 100 000 in 2016. 11 The direct healthcare-associated costs of …
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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … a mental health crisis. The 2024 World Happiness report (WHR24) found a steep decline in the mental wellbeing … health problem across the world. The 2024 World Happiness report (WHR24) has revealed a steep drop in the mental … (6%) and high (11%). 5 Additionally, rangatahi Māori report higher rates of depressive symptoms - for example, 38% …
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  • Health co-benefits need to be adequately considered in the Climate Change Commission’s final advice

    … the Government has been tabled in Parliament. This final report further acknowledged the potential health co-benefits … 14 (as well as causing hospitalisations and deaths) . A report prepared by the Law and Economics Consulting Group on …
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  • What we would like to see on the Ministry of Health’s website to better inform progress on COVID-19 elimination

    … travel variable blank (13) have a similar distribution of report dates to those with the overseas travel variable as … Furthermore, the 11% with a duration between arrival and report date of greater than 14 days is an underestimate of … that have been reported, the duration between arrival and report date has ranged from 2 to 6 days. The current border …
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  • Tax reform pros & cons: A brief look from a Public Health perspective

    … leaders in tobacco tax policy – with a recent series of annual increases ( see this blog ). Historically, tax was … New Zealand Government: Government Response to the Report of the Māori Affairs Committee on its Inquiry into the … tax on sugar sweetened beverages: observational study. BMJ 2016, 352:h6704. The Economist: Stopping slurping: Taxes on …
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  • Improving our pandemic preparedness: Counterfactuals and continuous quality improvement

    … from the pandemic. Most were covered by the Phase one report so work to implement improvements can begin … to start implementing the recommendations of the Phase one report now, and strengthen our essential public health … experience Excerpts from the British Medical Association’s report  COVID-19: Impact of the pandemic on healthcare …
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  • Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame

    … in our just published study in Tobacco Control : Annual 10% tobacco tax increases until 2025 (ie, a … A sinking lid on tobacco supply strategy which involved an annual reduction in the amount of tobacco supplied to the … may seem very bold, international surveys actually report high levels of public support for a ban on sales of …
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  • Taxing sugary drinks: Empirical findings out of Mexico

    … unhealthy foods. SSB tax is recommended by the final report from the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO) published 25 January 2016 (2), as one of a range of measures to address the … to children on all media as recommended in the ECHO Report. The extra tax revenue could be used to fund child …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey

    … About the New  Zealand Health Survey The NZHS is an annual nationally representative population survey. It has … every year. Full details of the methods and a methodology report are available on the Ministry of Health website . Data … than 2%, compared to 2021/22. These are similar to the annual reductions seen in the previous two surveys.   Smoking …
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  • Tobacco industry ‘transformation’ – more smoke and mirrors?

    … (PMI) announced their intention to transform in 2016 and now claim to be building a ‘smoke-free future’ , … data, and appraisal of the Tobacco Transformation Index report (noting the caveat that this index is wholly funded by … cigarette sticks in 2015 to 625 billion by 2021 – an annual decline of 37 billion sticks per year – represents …
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