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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … In this blog, we discuss the importance of developing an on-going monitoring and evaluation plan around this … We also explain why communications with smokers – whether on-pack or mass media – must be salient and timely to have … with the much broader agenda carefully scoped in the ASAP report to accelerate progress to 2025. … Standardised …
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  • The strong case for mask requirements in public transportation and border control settings in NZ’s current COVID-19 pandemic context

    … High quality randomised controlled trial (RCT) evidence on mass masking is not available. However, there is … risk from public transport exposure is illustrated by a report of a COVID-19 outbreak in Zhejiang province, China, … of avian influenza virus in aerosols (compared to 97% for medical masks) [16]. Evidence from epidemiological studies: A …
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  • Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?

    … the Australian National University and the British Medical Association? They have all decided in the last few … organisations are disinvesting, check out the Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5 th Assessment, released on November 2. …
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  • Putin and the Bomb: Why New Zealand national risk assessments should include planning for the potential impacts of nuclear winter

    … In this blog we briefly review the literature on the probability of nuclear war and what various models … President Vladimir Putin intend to use nuclear weapons, under what circumstances, and what would be the impact of … and Cabinet (DPMC), should consider doing an updated report on the impacts and responses to nuclear war and …
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  • Why Aotearoa New Zealand needs a Public Health Communication Centre

    … from the blog will continue to be available, archived here on The Briefing website.    This is just one part of the work … interests leads to decades-long policy inaction and under-resourcing. Preventing and better managing these … ideas about public health threats and opportunities. They report on new research, interview experts, follow leads and …
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  • Taxing sugary drinks: Empirical findings out of Mexico

    … Last month the British Medical Journal published a study on the highly anticipated purchasing data examining the … unhealthy foods. SSB tax is recommended by the final report from the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO) …
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  • Contradictions surround Government’s move to slash tax on heated tobacco products

    … Casey Costello recently halved the excise tax levied on heated tobacco products. Tobacco companies had advocated … with respect to the measures she repealed and her stance on heated tobacco products. The tobacco industry has a long … by recruiting new smokers (the majority of whom are under the age of 18), preventing current smokers from …
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  • Is Euthanasia a health priority for New Zealand at present?

    … to implement some of the findings of the Simpson review on health system reform. Arguably more suffering would be … all the practitioners who are prepared to provide services under the Act and providing and promulgating standards of … policies addressing how they will respond to requests for medical assistance in dying. Given the strength of feeling …
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  • What will the Government’s free vape starter kit programme achieve?

    … the likely impact free vape starter kits will have on the number of people who stop smoking, using both … that, at best, this policy is likely to support fewer than 500 people to stop smoking this year. This estimate is less … population size remained the same, a smoking prevalence of under 5% in 2025 would mean fewer than 216,618 people smoked …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning

    … by the Government have never sought to evaluate impact on school achievement. In the absence of direct impact … that the Ka Ora, Ka Ako school lunch programme was under review, with Associate Minister of Education David … school achievement. What’s new in this briefing? We report high rates of food poverty for 15-year-old Māori …
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