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  • Children and young people and COVID-19: The urgent need for improved guidance in NZ

    … children and young people in the Auckland outbreak may be a preview of what an uncontrolled COVID-19 pandemic would … children to make and use masks. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a new pathogen, requiring pandemic response strategies to be … children remains unclear currently, but uptake by children can help to normalise mask-wearing in communities (as happens …
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  • It’s been 3 years since COVID entered New Zealand – here are 3 ways to improve our response

    … disability from long Covid.  Available evidence supports a strategy that suppresses Covid infection to reduce the … infectious disease programme offers co-benefits as it can also decrease rates of influenza and other respiratory … Cost-effectiveness analysis and integrated surveillance can support the selection and equitable delivery of an …
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  • Low-cost heart-healthy bread for NZ

    … to its relatively high cost at NZ$5). All loaves made in a home bread-making machine (Photography: Pascale Otis). This blog reports on a study we just published on optimising the design of bread … should ideally be modelled before any implementation so it can be compared with other possible interventions). Even …
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  • Taxing sugary drinks: Empirical findings out of Mexico

    … Last month the British Medical Journal published a study on the highly anticipated purchasing data examining … associated with an overall 12% reduction in purchases and a 4% increase in purchases of untaxed beverages one year … health campaigns introduced in conjunction with a tax can be a valid option from a public health perspective (if …
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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … of Health, which evaluated tobacco excise tax increases as a strategy for achieving the Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal … sector’s Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa Plan (ASAP) launched a year previously [2] . The report strengthens the … case for hypothecation i.e. since tobacco excise taxes can impose a financial burden on disadvantaged smokers who …
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  • Health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 response: NZ compared to OECD countries

    … being -6.1% for NZ and -6.3% for the OECD. Nevertheless, a fuller accounting of health, economic and equity impacts … are lifted. Despite NZ’s health success there is still a need to improve border controls (eg, with a “traffic light” … minimised cases and deaths which were widely expected to show a large ethnic and socio-economic gradient (as per past …
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  • Debate on ultra-processed foods shouldn’t derail good dietary advice

    … high in fat, sugar and salt, low in fibre and with a long shelf life. Examples include biscuits, chips, candy, … to eat foods that are ‘whole’ or less processed. This can be a challenge when our food environments and food supply … of large cohort studies and meta-analyses consistently show an association between high intakes of UPF and a range …
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  • Transport, carbon emission reduction and health- the possibility of a virtuous circle?

    … highlight that there are many ‘no-brainer’ actions that can be taken now with likely health and environmental co-benefit. They have recently published a systematic review “Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change … homes and even our (expanding) bodies*. These decisions can be explicit or implicit; however the systematic favouring …
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  • The Island Bay cycleway – Terribly important and nothing new

    … This is a sensible move to make the city safer and more attractive … unfolded previously in other places. In essence, this is a debate about the best use of a limited common resource. In … barriers in Times Square ) that are easy to install, can be assessed rapidly, and if need be, taken down rapidly. …
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  • A major new study on Kiwi health – can it inform decision-making?

    … TVNZ (4’09”).) The Ministry of Health has just released a major new burden of disease study for 2006, a culmination … how far we fall short of ‘ideal’ health.  Comparisons can then be made between types of people, diseases and over … smokers or a markedly lowered and narrowed distribution of blood pressure) account for sizeable proportions of the …
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