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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 … suggests they could improve diets and produce substantial health gains. However, the proposition of food pricing … – it is still suggestive of favourable impacts on health e.g., given the results of a recent systematic review …
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  • We need rapid progress on digital solutions to help eliminate COVID-19 from New Zealand

    … of the COVID-19 pandemic has quickly overwhelmed existing health systems in affected countries. Most countries are … and implement an effective response. On 2 April, the World Health Organization hosted a high-level meeting between … coverage, and interfacing between individuals and health care authorities (who coordinate and monitor contact tracing …
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  • In the news: PHCC co-hosts political panel on prevention

    … political panel on prevention co-hosted by the Public Health Communication Centre, Health Coalition Aotearoa, and the University of Otago, … 2023. The panel was held on the back of the release of a Health Coalition Aotearoa political survey on where the …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … will be more long term.   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand s on healthcare services … death in Aoteaora , responsible for almost 10% of all health loss (measured in DALYs) and contributing greatly to …
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  • Monkeypox has arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand: what is the level of risk and how do we manage it?

    … This outbreak currently represents a relatively low public health risk to NZ because, while potentially transmissible … However, this outbreak could become an important global health threat for low- and middle-income countries. NZ should … This includes, but is not limited to, frontline health care workers, hospitality workers, children, and household …
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  • Transport, carbon emission reduction and health- the possibility of a virtuous circle?

    … Shaw and Simon Hales reflect on the weak evidence on health co-benefits for some ‘big’ environmental policies, but … ‘no-brainer’ actions that can be taken now with likely health and environmental co-benefit. They have recently published a systematic review “Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Policies in …
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  • Severe domestic squalor in Aotearoa New Zealand: A preliminary survey

    … throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. There are significant health risks for these individuals as well as risks for those … living in severe domestic squalor referred to the Public Health Service i n Taranaki between 2014 and 2016 had a … and the oldest 97 years old. 4     There are significant health risks for these people as well as risks for …
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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 … IMPORTANT.]   The overall evidence around salt and harm to health (as outlined in two recent systematic reviews (1, 2)) …
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  • Thoughts on NZ Adopting an Aussie Community Health Programme … and Forthcoming Nutrition Policy Events

    … Blakely and Associate Professor Nick Wilson Late last year Health Minister Tony Ryall visited Victoria, Australia , to … a series of four forthcoming blog posts here at Public Health Expert. The Australian programme has healthy nutrition … smoking. Actually, large chunks of it sound like the old Health Eating – Healthy Action programme. “The Healthy …
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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 … ‘what next’ for using these new technological tools for health research and promotion in NZ. In NZ, tobacco use and … apps to recommend for use to support clinical care as well as self-care. Doing this would require both …
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