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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … Providing equity of access for assisted dying without equity of access to … taken up by a small number of mostly educated white people. The recently announced funding mechanism (New Zealand … priority to End of Life Choice, when we do not fully fund many other services, particularly palliative care. The level …
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  • Red meat & processed meat: Summarising the Public Health isues

    … highest category of strength of evidence (see Figure), but how strongly is processed meat actually associated with … UK as an example: “ In the UK, around six out of every 100 people get bowel cancer at some point in their lives. If they … be looking wider than human health? Environmental impacts: Many countries around the world, including Sweden, Brazil and …
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  • Comparing two pandemics: A century apart

    … It highlights similarities and differences in the nature of these pandemics, the responses, and their impacts on … to projections based on previous years, per million people* Both pandemics affected largely immunologically naïve … children. They not only fell victim to the virus but many were also forced to assume caregiving roles for their …
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  • Covid recovery or sustainable transformation?

    … crystallised by the Covid pandemic. Here we consider how we can shape policies and programmes to ensure that the … here involve structural changes that will adversely affect many people. An effective and kind society is one which commits to …
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  • Protecting children and young people from unethical junk food marketing: Upgrading the advertising codes

    … be substantially improved to protect children and young people from obesity and poor oral health. Although public … can New Zealand make it work against the odds? And if so how? The following five revisions are probably necessary for … widely agreed to dichotomise foods as healthy/unhealthy. Many foods classified as “sometimes” foods under Fuelled4Life …
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  • Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … identifies critical policy actions to better enable all people to access warm, dry, safe, affordable housing that … reminded of earthquake risks and consequences, which many people as ‘citizen scientists’ monitor on the GNS app. … the Public Housing Waiting List and therefore determines how many public houses there can be and who will or will not …
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  • Improving NZ Government communication about COVID-19: Five suggestions

    … high quality communication by the NZ Government for much of the COVID-19 pandemic has been remarked on. But given that … about investigations and reviews Despite transparency on many day-to-day issues, there have been excessively long … Limitations with vaccines (eg, needing repeat doses every year). Border failures that lead to large outbreaks in NZ …
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  • “Why not just ban it?” Is it time to consider ending tobacco sales?

    … exactly that back in 2006. Why not just ban the sale of tobacco? This blog considers some arguments for and … this nature, the broader context need to be considered. In many ways this appears highly favourable. For example, … tax revenue anyway, governments will need to anticipate how they will manage this reduction, irrespective of a sales …
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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 … of population health and wellbeing. Shortages in many OECD countries, including New Zealand and Australia, … had risen at twice the rate of income growth. One in 100 people were homeless. There were growing ethnic inequalities, …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey

    … among younger age groups, Māori and Pacific peoples, and people living in the most deprived neighbourhoods. The … can be highly addictive. Despite strengthened regulation of vaping products (see Appendix ) recent rapid increases in … within this Briefing. Figure 6 shows an example of how the relationship can be explored by presenting data for …
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