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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 … measures and public health advocates say that the program has been slow to get off the ground (Alianza por la …
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  • Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame

    … could achieve NZ’s Smokefree goal, deliver large health gains and cost-savings, and could largely reduce the … the 2025 goal is to be achieved. The development of such a plan is critical with 2025 approaching, and research … bold, international surveys actually report high levels of public support for a ban on sales of tobacco among the …
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  • Modelling tobacco tax – implications of BODE3 paper just out, and personal reflections on the research journey

    … we published a paper in PLoS Medicine that estimates the health gains, health inequality and health system cost impacts of ongoing annual 10% increases in …
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  • The smokefree policies of political parties: Do they care about people who smoke?

    … importance. Smokers are more vulnerable to many harmful health effects, including severe effects from the virus. … done by governments, 7 8 and no government has produced a plan to detail how this goal will be realised. We found … TOP Party are committed to re-establishing the 1992-1995 Public Health Commission. The National Party has committed to …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … Public health responses to infectious diseases such as COVID-19 … us to draw on our common humanity as well as on our public health expertise in making the difficult decisions … at phase 1 and 2 of the New Zealand (Influenza) Pandemic Plan : ‘plan for it’, and ‘keep it out’ or border management. …
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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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  • 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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