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  • Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream

    … standards for nitrate pollution and publicly available information suggests more could follow.  Last year, … own 2020 drinking water targets in its Canterbury Water Management Strategy for drinking water quality. 5 The … 0.3 and 1.0   mg/L. 7 Importantly, the MAV is a human health limit, not a limit that should be applied to the …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … that tried to answer that question from a NZ public health perspective. In this blog we discuss what we found and … individuals need support to change. Rapid evolution of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) offers ever more … also noted NZ work on smartphone-mediated cardiovascular management [8,9]. But in particular we reported that there is …
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  • Urgent action needed to prevent a measles epidemic in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … to strengthen epidemic response capacity across the public health, healthcare, and educational sectors. Aotearoa New … across the country, including procedures to ensure safe management of cases presenting in healthcare and educational … Public Health Communication Centre Appendix: Additional information on measles epidemiology, prevention, and control …
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  • What public health lessons can NZ still learn from the United States?

    … The United States has many major health problems – including declining life expectancy and an exorbitantly expensive health care system. However, the large number of state and … well described [12]. Despite delays and dilution, greater information is given to smokers and the public on tobacco …
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  • Food and beverage taxes for a healthier diet: The Pacific experience

    … on chronic disease burdens. In response, the World Health Organization recommends fiscal policies like taxes on … in the Pacific (and elsewhere). 15 For example, following American Samoa’s approach (excise tax and import tariff on … of sugary products (New Caledonia), 19 education (American Samoa and Marshall Islands), and public health …
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  • Health-related food taxes and subsidies: A critique of opposition arguments

    … Health-related food taxes and subsidies are a hot topic … also favoured a SSB tax (17). Both the NZ Medical Association and the Heart Foundation support SSB taxes. “ … it is a legitimate and needed role of academics to provide information for this debate). E.g., should NZ strive to shift …
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  • Mounting complexities in the dietary salt & health relationship

    … A large prospective study on dietary salt and health has recently been reported in the New England Journal … work that a (very) high intake of salt is hazardous to health – an increased hazard was also found for low intakes … any such measurement error would tend to weaken the association with sodium intake and health outcomes. Again, it …
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  • Artificially sweetened beverages: What does the latest evidence tell us on health benefits versus harm?

    … (ASBs). But there are multiple concerns about potential health risks of ASBs – although limited evidence and hard … summarise current evidence, to inform the public, public health practitioners and policy makers. In NZ there are … extracts (eg, steviol gylcosides from the stevia plant). Association of ASBs with weight Starting with the association …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Taxes to protect health and reduce inequity

    … consideration of other polluter pays taxes to protect health and the environment. The Election 2023 Public Health Survey In the lead up to the 2023 General Election, the Public Health Communication Centre contacted each of the five major …
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  • Living longer, living healthier? Latest Official Report on independent life expectancy in NZ

    … In this blog we review the latest update by the Ministry of Health on how much of NZers life expectancy can be expected to be in good health. The good news? We are both living longer, and living longer in good health. The bad news? According to this report, the …
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