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Taxing tobacco in NZ: What we know and what could be next
… A series of seven annual tobacco tax increases, typically at … favour increased tobacco taxes – “if the extra revenue was used to promote healthy lifestyles and support quitting” … be accompanied by complementary interventions such as state-of-the-art mass media campaigns that encourage and …
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A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?
… This blog presents key findings from a modelling study where we estimated the impact that … smoked tobacco products are virtually nicotine free is one of the key proposals included in the Smokefree 2025 Action … tobacco products. The assumptions and parameters we used are outlined in the table for the base case scenario. …
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Limiting the size of single serve sugary drinks: New NZ study on health and cost impacts
… There is a lot of focus on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) … types of retail outlets). We used an established multi-state life-table model where the change in dietary energy … a wide range of factors in NZ’s obesogenic environment (eg, SSB and junk food taxes, regulations on junk food …
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Updating the role of the state: the case of housing in New Zealand
… issue again. In this blog I reflect on the importance of the role of the New Zealand Government in improving access … longer. The challenge Healthy, safe, affordable housing is a critical foundation of population health and wellbeing. … from 4 percent in 2008. In 2018-19, Housing NZ built 1,461 state rental homes, the largest number in 20 years. Currently …
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What does art have to do with public health, and how can they work together?
… time that the Public Health Summer School (University of Otago, Wellington) has considered art, and its … this eclectic gathering? Contemporary public health faces a number of challenges. First, an array of emerging health … be a useful barometer of the place of health in society – eg, some aspects of smoking in James Bond movies have changed …
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Perspective: The NZ Health Research Strategy Discussion Document – much scope for improvement
… The Government deserves congratulations for coming up with a Health Research Strategy. But the current Discussion … alternative Vision Statement is proposed. It makes a lot of sense for a country to have a health research strategy. It … (2). This can help identify benefits beyond health (eg, how diseases impact on employment and incomes (3)) and …
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A 100 years ago: The worst year of the First World War for New Zealand
… The year 1917 was the worst year of the First World War for New Zealand from a premature mortality perspective, with 5547 deaths. We have … that might have increased the proportion of wounded eg, ongoing increases in the use of artillery as well as more …
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NZ’s long-running Campylobacter epidemic from poultry: Now with antibiotic resistance
… NZ has a long-running Campylobacter infection epidemic with … Added to this problem is the recent rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance in these Campylobacter infections acquired from locally …
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Flooding, public health – and the need for more emphasis on prevention
… so as to better reduce the health and economic impacts of flooding disasters. The recent flooding events in NZ … notably in Christchurch in March 2014. This risk is a consequence of high rainfall and the steepness of the hill … to be higher. Flooding events are also likely to have mental health impacts when they cause displacement from …
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Where do the parties stand? Protecting water sources and drinking water quality
… contaminants in the water. Furthermore, more than 80% of New Zealanders consider the state of our water to be their main environmental concern. … drinking water sources. The urine of dairy cows is a primary source of nitrogen pollution of water. 4 It has …
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