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Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research
… to lower salt in food by about 10% a year with virtually no one noticing. Indeed, there is even some research … (which we reviewed in our paper [ 4 ]), there were no big surprises in our results. Indeed, there is now a quite … in scenario analyses in the main paper we also considered no discounting and 6% discount rate. In summary, there are …
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Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations
… campaign run for Vype (now Vuse), illustrated below), will no longer be possible. Charge beyond with the new Vype ePod … sporting events, such as the activities shown below, will no longer be possible; Section 33 prohibits supply of free … flavours popular with children and young people will no longer be available from these outlets, which will be …
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Does healthy food really cost more?
… steeper for healthy food. Price metrics There is currently no consensus in the literature about the best way to measure … the NZ Adult Nutrition Survey. However there is currently no routine monitoring which compares the cost of healthy food to unhealthy food, and there is no consensus on which price metric to use. Instead, the cost …
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Media release: Urgent action needed: Aotearoa must accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer
… cervical cancer and help create a future where almost no one in Aotearoa NZ dies from this now-preventable disease. … in this country until all groups achieve elimination and no one is left behind” Dr Gregory says the Government needs …
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What will the Government’s free vape starter kit programme achieve?
… e‐cigarettes without nicotine, or 4 of 100 people having no support or behavioural support only.” 1 Recent trials … smoking anyway 1 , using previously available supports (or no support), so assuming these people are additional quitters … more than 82,000 people needed to quit smoking . Sadly, no policy will now see the 2025 Smokefree goal realised by …
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FoodSwitch. Smartphone consumers beat industry to better labeling
… most easily using a traffic light label system. There is no evidence for the new star system and, due to challenges changing labels in the real world, no robust evidence (i.e. a real-world studies) for whether … led the development of the NZ FoodSwitch App. There is no direct financial gain for NIHI in FoodSwitch or related …
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Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?
… in the next few decades to restrict global warming to no more than 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels”. You … is a bigger picture to consider. After all, “there is no place to move to should we degrade our biosphere to the point where it can no longer meet our needs and sustain our economies” writes …
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Parliamentary voting for smokefree over two decades: Implications for future progress
… product safety and packaging). Passed on a voice vote (no further details). On the First Reading (in June 2020) … 55; Labour: 46; NZ First: 9; Greens: 8; Other: 1. No “Noes” were heard on the recording of the Third Reading … Minister of Health in a Labour-led Coalition Government. No votes were recorded for the First and Second Readings. …
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Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?
… transport is important for health and sustainability. But no one has previously looked systematically at how NZ cities … (Dunedin). Given the opportunity (i.e. when there is no congestion) half of people drive above 50km/hr in an urban …
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Mind the gap: Associate Health Minister’s actions conflict with Ministry advice, align with tobacco industry lobbying
… as a reduced harm alternative to smoking, and they found no evidence of this product’s effectiveness as a smoking … the MOH’s concern that there is only weak evidence (or no evidence in the case of oral nicotine products) these … that “Associate Health Minister Casey Costello said no one had raised any problems about the sale of these …
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