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  • What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes and public health

    … There are many ways that taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) can … of SSB taxation in improving health outcomes depends on how the SSB tax is designed including communication of a … SSBs (Cook Islands). Tokelau, a small island state of 1600 people, banned sugar sweetened soft drinks altogether since …
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  • A major new study on Kiwi health – can it inform decision-making?

    … respect to disease burden.  It also raises questions as to how useful a burden of disease study is for prioritisation of … health.  Comparisons can then be made between types of people, diseases and over time. Key findings include: Cancers … burden of disease study for 1996.  But we know from many other statistics (including the recent Global Burden of …
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  • NZ’s “Team of 5 million” has achieved the lowest COVID-19 death rate in the OECD – but there are still gaps in our pandemic response

    … the lowest death rate from the COVID-19 pandemic out of 37 OECD countries and appears to be the only one to … during the lockdown [2]. This result was probably due to many factors but likely ones included reduced traffic crash … and up to 10 percent of false close contacts, which were people too far away to be clinically considered a close …
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  • NZ’s Quitline Service is value-for-money: But how does it compare with other tobacco control actions in a league table?

    … modelling only includes 16 tobacco-related diseases (and many others exist). Our model also does not include the … and productivity gains associated with workers who don’t die prematurely from smoking). The cost-effectiveness of the … per the successful “It’s About Whanau” campaign (7-9). But how does this compare with other options? Although the …
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  • Flooding, public health – and the need for more emphasis on prevention

    … Conversely the economic, health and other benefits to people from maintaining healthy forest and other natural … in flood protection, though the extent of this depends on many factors including: climate, forest type and condition, … in Europe (9), and there is also experimental work on how tree planting reduces water run-off (10). Research in NZ …
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  • New modelling on the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in NZ associated with arriving travellers

    … our just published modelling work on estimating the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks associated with air travel to NZ. We … gave a 96% probability of an outbreak in NZ within a year, with a median time to an outbreak of 2.5 months (95% … certainly change over time. They should be reduced if more people in the source countries for travellers and in NZ get …
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  • Using a fun “Mask Day” at school to promote pandemic protection in the NZ community

    … circulation: a recent evaluation from Spain of 61,000 people found that around a third of those infected were … of the classes, whilst learning about the pandemic and how masks work to protect others in the community. The … public health messages  Mass masking is a new norm in many non-Asian high-income countries and behaviour change …
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  • Do Aotearoa’s new vaping regulations go far enough?

    … regulations that aim to limit vaping uptake among young people in Aotearoa New Zealand were recently announced. We … announced, explore their potential impact, and consider how effectively they will provide rangatahi with … does not apply to generic retailers, such as dairies, many of which already fall within this perimeter; nor does it …
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  • The science is certain: masks work. Policy and practice must support their use

    … rates are high, masking in crowded indoor settings enables people to continue daily activities more safely. This … infectious or at risk of infection, as happens in many Asian jurisdictions. This gap in our public health … Māori and Pacific providers) with clear guidelines about how and when to wear a mask and how to manage communication …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: A core measure in New Zealand’s endgame strategy

    … Generation (SFG) policy. In this blog, we briefly explain how these three measures will contribute to the Smokefree … policies (i.e., that measures restricting tobacco sales to people aged 21 or over) have done. Studies examining the … to tobacco is an important ‘freedom’, it is a ‘freedom’ many people are willing to relinquish. A survey of the …
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