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  • Protecting children and young people from unethical junk food marketing: Upgrading the advertising codes

    … This blog looks at five important ways that the Children’s Code for Advertising Food could be … properly understand or interpret advertising messages and are heavily persuaded by them. Given the vulnerability of … directed at children –  The current Codes do not define what ‘directed at children’ means. The Quebec Government has …
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  • A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development

    … Summary Significant effort is underway to address the housing crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand including rapid investment in public and community housing. Māori are highly urbanised and face many systemic barriers to home … to fulfil its potential as an enabler of Māori wellbeing. What is new in this briefing? We present A …
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  • Climate change and cherry blossom

    … was Convening Lead Author of Chapter 11 (Human Health) in the 5 th IPCC Assessment Report. A commentary on the full … Group 2 report was not approved until midday Sunday. What was on the table in Yokohama, and why did the meeting … of governments has shifted elsewhere. Governments are concerned now with the implications for global policy: …
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  • Communicating public health evidence – a successful first year for the PHCC

    … Summary It has been a year since the launch of the Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC) … subscribers, and visits to our website. Briefing articles are regularly covered by the media with each article … for our work, for the wider sector and policymakers. What this Briefing adds The PHCC has been highly effective in …
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  • Highly variable cost-effectiveness with disease characteristics and age: Herceptin as a Case Study

    … This blog is, and isn’t, about the breast cancer drug Herceptin. It is about Herceptin in … and precision medicine, our country’s funding decisions are often blunt and imprecise, some may even say wasteful. We … makes for an interesting case study. Here’s what we already know about Herceptin: We know that HER2+ …
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  • How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    … vaccination programme, starting with those working at the border, including in the Managed Isolation and Quarantine … any detailed prioritisation.   Broadly speaking there are two benefits to vaccination; protection of the individual and …
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  • A National risks assessment should include pandemics and other global catastrophes

    … The Draft NZ National Security Long-term Insights Briefing … there is a need to: (i) improve future iterations of the public survey (eg, the next one in February/March … will discuss ‘ the most significant threats New Zealanders are concerned about for the next decade ’. However, these may …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning

    … of Education, David Seymour wants to cut funding to the Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunch Programme by 30-50%, … factors. By definition, schools that receive the lunches are lower advantage than schools that don’t and accordingly, … hunger 8 and less hunger improves school achievement. What’s new in this briefing? We report high rates of food …
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  • Would a sugary fizzy drink tax reduce health inequalities? Probably Yes

    … predictions, and then a recent Australian study on the topic. The bottom line is that such a tax would probably … ated fat in processed foods. But sugary fizzy drinks are nutrient poor, have healthier alternatives (e.g. water, … of SSBs [rich]       = 3% + (3% × -0.9 × 20%) = 2.46% So what happens to health inequalities? Imagine (not …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … Aotearoa New Zealand has been a world leader in the smokefree arena and is doubling down on its efforts to … on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC) to ensure children are protected from the harms associated with smoking. In … of vaping (3) and its opponents (4). Big tobacco knows what it’s doing! The big tobacco companies have a “history of …
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