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  • Protecting children and young people from unethical junk food marketing: Upgrading the advertising codes

    …   Figure 1: McDonald’s supporting junior football in New Zealand – … Food could be substantially improved to protect children and young people from obesity and poor oral health. Although … is unethical, since children cannot properly understand or interpret advertising messages and are heavily persuaded …
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  • Human health impacts of plastic exposure – an evolving evidence base

    … five years, notably from chemical additives in plastics and plastic particles themselves. This evidence strengthens … on how to address the wicked problem of plastic pollution. 1 The evidence base for environmental harm caused by plastic … Plastic particles may be used in manufactured products or be released from plastic items during use, inevitably …
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  • Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data

    … There are striking inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality in NZ, by both ethnicity and socioeconomic … is 7 years less than for European/Pakeha New Zealanders (1). Also four times as many Māori women die of lung cancer … incidence, ethnic group, income group, education level, or age-group. Through the drop down menus, users can focus on …
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  • An open letter to Cabinet Ministers from 74 health professors calling for a sugary drinks tax

    … on 2 April 2016. Professors Boyd Swinburn, Rod Jackson, and Cliona Ni Mhurchu led the writing.  Dear Cabinet … general anaesthetic operations to remove rotten teeth (1). We applaud the government for making childhood obesity a … have rotten teeth extracted every year under general or local anaesthetic. … An open letter to Cabinet Ministers …
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  • Will the Health Star Rating labels improve people’s diets?

    … to have informative yet easy-to-use nutrition labelling, and effective labelling is one tool to help control the … new Health Star Rating label truly a win-win consensus, or might too much have been given away to reach a compromise? … introduce the Multiple Traffic Light (MTL) label system (1). Ministers expanded on this decision, saying they had : …
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  • An Official Inquiry into the Covid-19 Pandemic Response – It’s Time and it’s Vital

    … blog we explain how it is now time to announce the process and timetable for such an official inquiry. We note that all … Covid-19 mortality rates and negative “excess mortality”. 1 2 NZ accomplished this while experiencing relatively lower … critiques were only of select components of the response or about particular issues. There is a need for a detailed …
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  • Improving the health of our children: Project Energize bang for the health $

    … [Editor note, Blakely and Wilson: This is an invited blog by Professor Elaine Rush, … perspective, and then lays out the case and evidence f or Project Energize]. The highlight of the 2014 Budget for … and prescriptions free for children aged under 13 from 1 July 2015. There was also $40 million for a new Healthy …
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  • The Omicron waves – Comparing Aotearoa NZ and Australia in four key graphs

    … the first Covid-19 Omicron variant waves in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). We find that Australia’s first … the values to rates per 100,000 population ( figure 1 ). Figure 1 covers the period from July 2021 of the … is also substantially higher than either the rest of NZ or Australia on a per 100,000 population basis. The numbers …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 goal is in danger of receding – will the Ministry of Health’s ‘realignment’ get it back on track?

    … published letter in the New Zealand Medical Journal (1) we suggest it may help. However, we argue more fundamental change is required and outline how the Government could do more and the priority … removing additives (as per Brazil), reducing nicotine, or phasing down the number of tobacco retail outlets also …
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  • New Vaping Bill: Some important progress but critical gaps remain

    … has moved quickly to “crack down” on youth vaping and proposes introducing new measures in a new bill. These … they could offer a less harmful alternative to smoking 1 but did not anticipate the vaping prevalence now evident … and density of vape stores, regulate price discounting), or reduce vaping products’ appeal. The Bill’s definition of …
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