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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 … development of a multidisciplinary, pre-incident response plan including a strategy for patient flow that avoids shared …
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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … declined since its peak in the 1960s, after the serious health risks it poses became clear. Government policies and … core endgame measures, attempted to metamorphose into public health allies, and tried to shape social norms by … Aotearoa New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 Action Plan outlines changes to tobacco products’ design and …
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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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  • Reducing nicotine in smoked tobacco products: A pivotal feature of the Smokefree Aotearoa proposals

    … has published a discussion document outlining an Action Plan for the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal and has invited … added sugar and flavourings), in spite of the disastrous health consequences these impose on most users. 5 6 These … Wilson are members of ASPIRE2025 and the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington. Chris Bullen …
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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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  • Smokefree outdoor areas: A missing part of Government’s new Smokefree 2025 proposals

    … in helping smokers in this way. There is strong public support for major changes, including for smokefree … implemented, these proposals could lead to major health gains, health system cost savings and reducing the … law-based smokefree outdoor areas. The Government’s plan needs a fifth specific focus area – smoking …
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  • Lime E-Scooters – Avoiding a collision course with public health?

    … argue they will help reduce traffic density, thus bringing health and environmental benefits, while critics suggest they … treatments for injuries. In this blog, we consider the public health implications of Lime e-scooters, review how … introduction of these devices against their own transport plan or the national framework of transport sector outcomes . …
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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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  • 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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