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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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  • The Covid inquiry report is an excellent guide to preparing for the next pandemic – health cuts put that at risk

    … reviewed the Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) pandemic response and the wider threat from future pandemics. It identified … high level ‘road-map’ for improving pandemic preparedness and recommends immediate action.  Release of the report … long-awaited inquiry into New Zealand’s Covid response . 1 The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid-19 report 1 …
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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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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … Blog. This blog is going to consider what we could do, and what we probably should not do, to improve public … We will traverse the range from birth to end of life care and death, efficiency versus equity, learning from our … health (e.g. the National Health Committee in New Zealand, or the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … to clearly articulate its COVID-19 strategy: eradication or ‘flattening the curve’ mitigation. But to do so means understanding the maths and ethics of both these strategies. In this blog we adapt … that about 60% of people are infected and become immune (1 – 1/R 0 = 60%). This is herd immunity – when a high enough …
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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … in principle the sale of oral tobacco products (e.g. snus) and oral nicotine products (e.g. pouches) in Aotearoa New … nicotine for the short-term relief of withdrawal symptoms or as a longer-term replacement source of nicotine may help … that contains tobacco, is widely used in Sweden [ Figure 1 ]. People place the pouch between their gum and lip, and …
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