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  • Limiting the size of single serve sugary drinks: New NZ study on health and cost impacts

    … Through these two mechanisms we predicted the resulting health gains in quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) and health system costs over the remaining life course of the NZ … NZ population level it was estimated to generate a total health gain of 82,100 QALYs (95% uncertainty interval [UI]: …
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  • Food taxes and subsidies will probably protect health & reduce inequalities – but the devil is in the detail

    … among socially disadvantaged groups with worse diets and health to start with. But the proof is in the pudding, which in this case is the health and economic modelling to see what effect taxes and … international models show little if any improvement in health from subsidies on fruit and vegetables, because …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … drinking water nitrate limit of 11.3 mg/L set by the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO limit is only designed to … account for the potential links to cancer or other adverse health outcomes. Attracting less public attention is the link … to humans” (Group 2A). 16 While a Danish Study found an association and attracted a lot of attention, 1 at least 11 …
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  • How to Systematically Reduce the Border Failure Risk for COVID-19 in Aotearoa/NZ

    … it is an excellent time for a systematic review by NZ health authorities to identify optimal methods for reducing … institution and face substantial fines. Review risk management of international air crew An updated review on the … reporting along with recommended corrective actions. Such information is essential to inform system improvements. …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … ” ) WHO? The Emergency Committee The international health regulations (IHR) provide for the Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a Public Health …  letter  published 23 February 2021. Unfortunately, key information appears to have been suppressed in Wuhan during …
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  • The UK Government shows leadership with a Soft Drink Tax announcement

    … adults, and it is clear that Kiwis far exceed the World Health Organization free sugars target of less than 10% of … ensuring public support for new taxes designed to protect health or the environment. Is this new tax likely to work? … purchases (7), and modelling work is suggestive of health benefits (e.g., this NZ modelling work (8). …
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  • Lessons from jurisdictions that are battling their own Delta variant outbreaks

    … of the pandemic virus. In this blog we discuss public health responses employed in other jurisdictions in response … to the Alert Levels and improvements to ventilation management. There is also a need to strengthen border control … outbreak responses to inform current and future public health measures in NZ. Why is the Delta variant such a …
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  • Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?

    … will be based on Healthy Together Victoria (HTV) which the Health Minister, Tony Ryall, visited on a recent trip to … of Healthy Together Victoria: Victorian Minister for Health, Hon David Davis, Prof Boyd Swinburn, Dr Alan Shiell, … and solutions to put into an election platform and, in health, the failure to address obesity is a biggie. Two out …
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  • Action needed to halt New Zealand’s obesity epidemic: Themes from Big Food Symposium

    … International and national public health experts and delegates met on Monday this week to … initiative recently announced by the Minister of Health, they stress the critical need to focus on upstream … costs are a mix of costs to the tax payer funded health system (approximately $6 billion) and lost …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … The objective of the Crown providing funding for health practitioners to deliver assisted dying services is to … objective is that: CA1 Entitlement to Make a Claim b. the health practitioner must not: i. be providing the assisted … services in their capacity as an employee of a District Health Board; ii. be entitled to have the claim satisfied …
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