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  • Backing off international infant formula standards: A retrograde step

    … marketing and distribution of products  There are threats from commercial milk formula industry   for withdrawal of investments from countries linked to a suggested economic loss Argument … to industry. 5  Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, …
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  • Taxing sugary drinks: Empirical findings out of Mexico

    … child oral health in New Zealand.   ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­From 1 January 2014, Mexico implemented an excise tax of 1 … foods. SSB tax is recommended by the final report from the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO) … of the excise tax by using scanned and recorded individual food purchase data (Nielsen Mexico Consumer Panel Service). …
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  • Would a sugary fizzy drink tax reduce health inequalities? Probably Yes

    … impact on health as, say, reduction of salt in processed food or food reformulation to reduce sugar and satur The NZMA … differs between rich and poor (for a 20% increase in price from a tax): –      Post tax consumption of SSBs [poor]      … 0.9 for each 1 percentage point reduction in energy intake from SSBs. 5. Disease (e.g. diabetes) incidence will change …
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  • Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations

    … a goal of supporting smokers and encouraging switching from smoking to regulated products that pose fewer risks. … within the Act that could help protect young people from ENDs uptake before discussing how the Regulations could … product, vaping product or herbal smoking product”), from the promotions undertaken to the product flavours able …
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  • Social advantage associated with greenhouse emissions from transport in Aotearoa

    … affluent emitted 79% more transport GHGe weekly, mainly from the extra 97km driven each week. Flying was the most … unequal mode of travel and made up 10% of weekly emissions from people who live in the least deprived quintile. … transport interventions. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transport is essential to meet our legal targets towards …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … use intense public health controls to eradicate COVID-19 from the country – we must also plan for other scenarios … ACC on preventable home accidents would also help. Image from YouTube As emergency doctors in Alberta, Canada have … prison population risks. Possible ways include starting to remove double bunking, improving prison health services and …
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  • Expanding the Definition of Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Mindset Change to Help Achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … is often narrowly conceptualised as supporting transitions from smoking to alternative nicotine products that are less … Amendment Bill will be implemented. Image by  Tumisu  from  Pixabay   Public health strategies have often used the … Decriminalising cannabis use to reduce psycho-social harms from criminalising users and costs to the justice system …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey

    … a steady decline in current and daily smoking prevalence from 2011/12 to 2019/20 with a greater rate of decline … a smokefree generation policy to protect young people from addiction to smoking. Further details about the Action … briefing summarises key findings on smoking prevalence from the 2022/23 NZHS. Findings relating to prevalence and …
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  • Media release: Long Covid could be costing NZ $2 billion a year in lost productivity: Experts urge preventive action

    … of Aotearoa New Zealand at least NZ$2 billion per year from reduced worker productivity, and that’s excluding health costs. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre –  Long Covid: … economist Professor Paula Lorgelly highlights estimates from a recently-published economic analysis in  Australia …
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  • What can Aotearoa NZ learn from Australia’s new vaping policies?

    … we analyse that question and suggest NZ could benefit from adopting some Australian measures. For some years, … Yet, our current policies do not adequately protect them from a marketing environment where vaping products are very … (plain white packaging with black font text) will remove eye-catching branding and so help reduce the appeal of …
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