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  • Local alcohol policies: What’s the opportunity to reduce harm?

    … alcohol in 2020. 3 National maximum trading hours are long at 8am-4am for on-premises (eg restaurants and pubs) and … are more exposed to alcohol outlets, this will require a long-term sinking lid in the LAP which can gradually reduce … actual hours of trade. Where outlet density is high, long-term sinking lid policies will be needed to meaningfully …
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  • Communicating public health evidence – a successful first year for the PHCC

    … health equity ; Strategic directions, notably the need for long term thinking ; Improved interventions, including smoke … the policy agenda, we are mindful that it typically takes long-term systems-level change to improve public health. 1 We … of health are a force that often works against long-term public health interests – along with high-quality …
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  • Debate on ultra-processed foods shouldn’t derail good dietary advice

    … high in fat, sugar and salt, low in fibre and with a long shelf life. Examples include biscuits, chips, candy, … high in fat, sugar and salt, low in fibre 3 and have a long shelf life e.g. biscuits, chips, candy, instant noodles, …
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  • Casting a long shadow: Infection drives stomach cancer inequalities in Māori and Pacific peoples

    … child poverty have marked implications and can cast a very long shadow. Preventing children getting infected with H. … Blakely Prof Michael Baker Prof Diana Sarfati … Casting a long shadow: Infection drives stomach cancer inequalities in …
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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … to ask in relation to a product range about which the long-term health effects are still largely unknown. Yet the … meaning those retailers can continue selling tobacco as long as they stay in business. Our just published [1] …
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  • Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

    … 2023 Wellbeing Budget has now taken an even more long-sighted view by expanding the Warmer Kiwi Homes … not necessarily reflect Board policy. … Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing …
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  • “Appetite for Destruction”: A new book with attitude – but also strong science

    … is an amazing success story of capitalism (high energy, long shelf life, ‘fake food’ cheaply available wherever you … have become so integral to food production (they ensure long shelf life, and flavour over all sorts of nasty tastes), …
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  • A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data

    … more marked [5, 6], and these have been described over long time courses [7, 8]. Eg, in 2011 there was a Māori vs … by itself to redress health inequalities, it will have long legacy effects. Dealing with specific health problems … its important focus on reducing child poverty (which has long-term benefits to reduce inequalities in non-communicable …
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  • Taxing sugary drinks: Empirical findings out of Mexico

    … of seasonal (more SSBs drunk in Mexico in summer) and long-run trends in SSB consumption (e.g., a pre-tax trend of … are probably taken into account. Put another way, as long as the net impact of health agency and industry activity … inform the evidence around SSB taxation and clarify the long-term impact of the tax, potential substitutions and its …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … alarming the world, so they remain silent for too long. Their function is analogous to a fire alarm, they are … be workable?) Incentives for countries to WANT to set up long-term systems and care about monitoring Incentives for … will scan for pathogens and prepare vaccines, with long-term predictable funding and public-private partnership. …
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