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Implementing healthy food environment policies in Aotearoa
… influencing food environments against international best practice. Some policies were comparable with international … policies influencing food costs, and restricting marketing of unhealthy foods that children see. Sixty experts … to be adopted in many policy areas, such as marketing of unhealthy food to children and healthy food policies in …
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Expanding Ka Ora, Ka Ako is ‘bread and butter’ action to alleviate the cost-of-healthy-food crisis
… Summary A major part of the cost-of-living crisis, which is hitting whānau across Aotearoa New Zealand hard, is the cost-of-healthy-food crisis. Fruit and vegetable prices have …
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Health-related food taxes and subsidies: A critique of opposition arguments
… produce substantial health gains. However, the proposition of food pricing policies often meets with vigorous opposition and a range of counter-arguments relating to potential harms, lack of efficacy, and incursion on personal freedoms. In this …
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Pandemic terminology: getting it right matters for effective risk communication and management
… a stand-out success story by ending community transmission of COVID-19. While there have been some well-publicised … quarantine organisation), there has still been no evidence of community transmission for many weeks. Nevertheless, … scope for improvement. In this blog, we focus on a set of key terms where consistent, accurate use is important: …
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More courage needed from our political parties—reviewing our election series
… stand on issues that impact the health and wellbeing of our population. In this article we review our “Where do the parties stand” series, in which we put a range of public health issues to the five parties currently in … health inequity, and transport. Here we summarise each of the articles as well as flagging relevant policy …
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Has the time come for a register of AI systems used by government agencies?
… building trust, assessing bias, and determining the level of human oversight needed. We encourage the NZ Government to regularly publish a register of all AI algorithms used across the public sector, including … regard to equity and fairness. Implications for policy and practice We need to develop clear frameworks for evaluating …
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Cyclone Gabrielle by the numbers – A review at six months
… significant damage across northern and eastern regions of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) in February 2023. It joined the … in resilience. Implications for public health policy and practice Protecting public health is a critical component of …
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Progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Congratulations to the Government
… tobacco products to be sold in only a small number of stores; reducing the nicotine in tobacco products to very low levels; and restricting the legal sale of tobacco products to people born before a certain fixed … in full, the Action Plan offers a realistic chance of realising the 2025 goal to achieve minimal smoking …
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Analysis of a new NZ Treasury Report on soft drink tax
… tax price elasticities has just emerged. It has the look of a strategically published document that if and when – … obesity. Therefore a comprehensive plan for obesity will, of necessity, contain strategies which have incomplete evidence of impact by themselves, but collectively may help at the …
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How can we address tobacco companies’ manipulation of cigarette prices?
… Pricing is one of the most potent influences on consumers’ behaviour. … to implement tobacco excise taxes, which raise the price of tobacco thus reducing tobacco consumption and smoking … tobacco companies have undermined the intended impact of excise taxes by creating new lower-priced brands or brand …
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