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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … issues that should be issues of the day.  We undertake to make this blog informative, relevant, and as evidence-based … Health (and everything else), I guarantee you that I could make life expectancy in New Zealand the best in the world … introduce new ones on sugar, salt and saturated fat. Then make it super easy for people to cycle and walk to work by …
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  • Backing off international infant formula standards: A retrograde step

    … is a missed opportunity to protect infant health, to make sure parents and caregivers have accurate information … labels are not misleading, consumers should be allowed to make their own informed choices.    Argument 5  Addresses the … their health and wellbeing, ensuring that they are able to make informed choices around infant feeding …
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  • Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking

    … Conversely, NZ has some key barriers to overcome to make the best use of that data – most importantly, data … analytic methods. For example, one of us (NN) is unable to make reasonably basic machine learning algorithms work in the … Agency Chief Executive or Vice Chancellor somewhere to ‘make it happen’.  The good news is that the awareness within …
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  • Will the Health Star Rating labels improve people’s diets?

    … including traffic light labelling … [would help consumers] make informed choices” . (2) Many were incredulous that the … strong enough to disrupt habitual behaviour patterns and make a meaningful difference to improving dietary choices. … particular, help consumers who don’t often use the NIP to make decisions like those who do use it (14-16). MTLs also …
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  • Long Covid in Aotearoa NZ: Risk assessment and preventive action urgently needed

    … myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and neurological disorders. Commonly experienced … urgent need to revise NZ’s eligibility criteria. NZ should make vaccines available and accessible to younger age groups … 50 myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome [ME/CFS]), 51 52 and clinically significant neurocognitive …
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  • Perspective: The NZ Health Research Strategy Discussion Document – much scope for improvement

    … a country to have a health research strategy. It should make it easier for prioritising how best to target limited … aspects – and it will need substantial additional work to make it more fit for purpose. This blog tries to get the … in NZ that identifies the most cost-effective ways to: Make the largest reductions in health loss for the NZ …
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  • Beyond unhelpful dichotomies: a co-regulatory approach to protecting children from junk food marketing

    … you don’t invite groups to the table, you invite people. Make sure they have the authority to make decisions if acting on behalf of an organisation. This … delegate responsibility in order to utilise expertise, but make sure everyone’s on the same page about roles, …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … to this reasoning, many adults who smoke enjoy smoking and make an informed choice to continue to smoke. As a result, … they assert that people who smoke should be left to make their own decisions about quitting, and smokefree policy … should not restrict their autonomy by using policies to make smoking less appealing, available, addictive, or …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … hours, and reduced or banned advertising of alcohol would make significant and valuable differences for hospital staff, … needs to be made to reduce health system stresses and make the system more resilient, how can we quickly improve …
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  • New Vaping Bill: Some important progress but critical gaps remain

    … the Bill fails to address price promotions, which make vapes highly accessible to children; it also fails to … bundling promotions (such as buy-one-get-one-free) could make vaping products less affordable for young people while … pods and cartridges remain available, excise tax could make these products less affordable to young people while …
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