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  • Health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 response: NZ compared to OECD countries

    … -6.3% for the OECD. Nevertheless, a fuller accounting of health, economic and equity impacts probably needs to wait … available and border restrictions are lifted. Despite NZ’s health success there is still a need to improve border … this blog we aim to provide an updated description of the health and economic impacts of the NZ approach to inform …
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  • And now the Brits are doing it: A sugary drink tax levy on the industry

    … now have some variety of a sugary drinks tax, 1 a public health measure that is rapidly gaining traction amongst … blog we explain how the UK levy works (it is clever), what health impacts this levy might have (it is much more than via … smoking results in costs to society (eg increased health care spending), and therefore has negative externalities that …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks

    … global catastrophic risks. The Election 2023 Public Health Survey In the lead up to the 2023 General Election, the Public Health Communication Centre contacted each of the five major … about their position on five areas relevant to public health: future risks, tax, water quality, transport, and …
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  • Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable

    … in monetary terms.  The Rule disregards broader public health impacts of increased speed limits, such as … limits, we need a more balanced approach to protect public health and community safety, an approach that aligns with … there would be a net cost to society. 4 Wider public health costs missing A more difficult issue to quantify is …
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  • Stubbing out democracy: no Government mandate for smokefree repeal

    … have strong public support. Views of community leaders, health organisations and health and smokefree policy experts are being ignored, in … . If priority goals for the government include maximising health, well-being and equity in the best interest of its …
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  • Urgent measures needed to allow the safe re-opening of Auckland schools

    … to further transmission of COVID-19, with devastating health and wellbeing outcomes for children, young people and … and parental stress. We request that the Ministries of Health and Education urgently prepare and disseminate clear … extra-curricular activities, and before and after school care programmes (OSCAR). 7. Guidance regarding masks / face …
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  • Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: Five key ways to reduce the massive health and social costs

    … to lower costs to citizens. The latest iteration of the Health and Air Pollution in New Zealand Study (HAPINZ 3.0) has summed up the health costs of air pollution, drawing on comprehensive air … had not been present).” The estimated costs of these health and social impacts from human-made air pollution in …
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  • The hardening hypothesis for smoking – but does the evidence point to “softening” in NZ?

    … (eg, more poor smokers, more smokers with mental health conditions). The net effect should be a reduced rate … journal Tobacco Control (14)) drawing on evidence from the Health Promotion Agency’s Health and Lifestyle surveys from 2008-2014, mirrored the …
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  • Glass half full: Alcohol’s health benefits for cardiovascular disease still controversial, and likely vary by context

    … amounts of alcohol are beneficial to cardiovascular health.  But actually in research circles this ‘fact’ is … The actual net effect of alcohol consumption on population health, or death rates here, depends also on how the … for working out the net effect of alcohol on population health. The following will decrease death rates in a …
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  • Urgent action needed to help eliminate cervical cancer in Aotearoa

    … Summary For the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has set an ambitious goal to eliminate a cancer as a public health problem. Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) committed to this … Lead, Cancer Society of New Zealand Ellen Fisher , Cancer Care Policy Lead, Cancer Society of New Zealand Hannah Booth …
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