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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 recently published the findings in Public Health Nutrition . 8 (See map) Several Pacific … expenditure on taxed products. 10 To improve fairness and public acceptability, it is paramount that nutrition …
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Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research
… dietary salt intake of New Zealanders could produce major health gains and major cost savings for the publicly-funded health sector. We also put these results into a wider context … for Australasia. In particular, we aimed to model the health benefits and costs for NZ of reducing salt intakes – …
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Stubbing out democracy: no Government mandate for smokefree repeal
… the legislation. The measures to be repealed have strong public support. Views of community leaders, health organisations and health and smokefree policy experts … non-consultative process, contrasts markedly with detailed public and stakeholder consultation and scrutiny for the …
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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 … an unavoidable conflict of interest when it comes to public health actions that may impact on industry sales and … So although the food industry can certainly help benefit public health if they promote fruit and vegetables and …
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Updating the role of the state: the case of housing in New Zealand
… look at what the Government been doing to increase quality public housing and to reduce homelessness and why the public housing waiting list is getting longer. The challenge … affordable housing is a critical foundation of population health and wellbeing. Shortages in many OECD countries, …
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What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes and public health
… can affect the likely impact on SSB consumption and health. This blog looks at a policy discussion document from … approximately 10% of the price. There have been calls by public health advocates to increase the tax to 20% (Alianza … schools and to introduce other anti-obesity measures and public health advocates say that the program has been slow to …
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Fast-track Approvals Bill a threat to public health, warn researchers
… Public health researchers are raising concerns over the implications … legal protections for the environment and threatening public health. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health …
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Period Drama: How to Address Period Poverty in Aotearoa
… non-binary people who menstruate 1 . Period poverty is a public health and health equity issue that must be effectively … it is about viewing effective management of periods as a public health issue and addressing all the relevant factors …
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Urgent action needed to prevent a measles epidemic in Aotearoa New Zealand
… need to strengthen epidemic response capacity across the public health, healthcare, and educational sectors. Aotearoa New … (ECE) centres during outbreak periods. Diversion of public health resource to support control measures, including …
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Taxes on fizzy drinks in NZ: preventing premature deaths and raising funds for health
… A task of public health research is to quantify the health impact of interventions that are upstream and are … in our food environment. Politicians and the general public should be concerned about this, and keen to act. …
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