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  • Communicating public health evidence – a successful first year for the PHCC

    … launch of the Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC) and the new-look Public Health Expert Briefing . In this … long-term systems-level change to improve public health. 1 We have strived to make sure that politicians and … to your inbox. If you are a public health researcher or practitioner interested in contributing a Briefing …
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  • Tackling child poverty: will the nation’s political leaders honour Richie Poulton’s legacy?

    … the extraordinary achievements, significant findings, and policy relevance of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health … shows that childhood poverty, especially when severe and/or prolonged, has significant negative long-term impacts … a thousand babies born at Dunedin hospital during 1972-73. 1 Their life circumstances and development were closely …
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  • Food and beverage taxes for a healthier diet: The Pacific experience

    … Summary Across Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), the Pacific and globally we are seeing a growing impact of the food … initiatives as extending free healthy school lunches and/or free dental care. The growing impact of the food … have declared a non-communicable disease (NCD) crisis 1; 2 reflecting the health and financial implications of …
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  • A National risks assessment should include pandemics and other global catastrophes

    … by the NZ Government. In this blog we discuss its merits and how the process could be further advanced. In particular … 2023); (ii) signal a move towards an integrated and comprehensive National Risks Assessment; and (iii) … be discussed. We note that all risks are made more likely or more consequential by disinformation and we applaud the …
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  • Public health response to report on potential risk of nitrate from drinking water

    … This week a report, co-funded by Fonterra and MBIE, investigated the relative contributions of nitrate … “it is highly unlikely that nitrates in drinking water or the diet present an increased risk of cancer.” In this … water and food to New Zealanders’ overall nitrate intake [1]. The authors used collated data from international studies …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … expected to double in the next 20 years – a major health and economic issue. Since age is the biggest risk factor for … NZ (NZ) is expected to double in the next 20 years (Figure 1). However, it will almost triple in the same period for … to tolerate damage: low education, uncorrected hearing or vision loss, and social isolation. The potential for …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could making tobacco products available only through community pharmacies help us get there?

    … In this blog we discuss the arguments for and against one of the proposals included in the Smokefree … [UI]: 4510 to 5100) premature deaths in 2019 alone. 1 The total health loss (including morbidity) in 2019 was … advantage of making tobacco products available solely or largely through pharmacies is that it may have a greater …
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  • Reducing the spread of antibiotic resistance in New Zealand, action is long overdue!

    … Influential healthcare leaders in NZ, such as Te Whatu Ora and the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, … decades very few new antibiotics have been developed. 1 Unfortunately, the low financial rewards from development … Antibiotic resistance occurs because antibiotic use kills or inhibits the growth of susceptible bacteria but allows …
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  • The Havelock North drinking water inquiry: A wake-up call to rebuild public health in New Zealand

    … much broader than the safety of drinking water supplies and represent a serious erosion and fragmentation of NZ’s national public health … hospitalisations, and 3 deaths by the time it was over [ 1 ]. Total economic costs were estimated at $21 million [ 2 …
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  • NZ falling behind on international rules to protect kids from food marketing

    … food marketing. This Briefing outlines how NZ falls short, and how doing so jeopardises the nation’s ability to meet its … Recently WHO released a new set of guidelines on policies 1 needed to protect children from the harmful impacts of food … saturated fatty acids, trans-fatty acids, free sugars and/or salt to which children are exposed, and that such …
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Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)