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  • Thoughts on NZ Adopting an Aussie Community Health Programme … and Forthcoming Nutrition Policy Events

    … announced that NZ will adopt this programme, and it will be known as “Healthy Families New Zealand”. This blog post … sugary drinks at the local sports club, the approach might be to work with the sports club committee and sponsors to … is currently rather depleted. Capacity building will be required, and is welcomed. Second, we hear echoes of the …
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  • Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream

    … suggests the regulator’s recent decisions are likely to be making the situation worse.    Already bad and getting … suggests the Council’s very recent decisions are likely to be making the situation even worse.  Recent decisions … concentrations that are “likely” or “very likely” to be increasing. 6 Already, 10% of monitoring sites across the …
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  • Lessons From history: Helping New Zealand prepare for future influenza pandemics

    … rare so the lessons learned from such events may not be available when they are most needed. This is where … can help. Here we reflect on some lessons that could be learnt from the 1918 influenza pandemic – building on a … this list of existential risks ). This consequence might be particularly plausible if influenza viruses were ever …
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  • Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?

    … Looking at Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred … urban streetscapes [5]. Such studies could also usefully be conducted over time, as imagery is routinely updated on … conditions, behaviours The literature on GSV seems to be rapidly growing – but a few other examples are as follows: …
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  • An open letter to Cabinet Ministers from 74 health professors calling for a sugary drinks tax

    … They have concluded that such taxes are likely to be one of the most cost-effective interventions available and have recommended that they should be part of a comprehensive approach to reduce childhood … in front of world health ministers in Geneva, it would be opportune and show great leadership to return and say …
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  • Taxing sugary drinks: Empirical findings out of Mexico

    … on sugar sweetened beverages. These findings deserve to be looked at carefully given the growing international … changes occurring simultaneously that were unable to be accounted for. What were the results in more detail? The … reduction in SSB consumption. The tax was considered to be ‘pro-equity’ as would be expected given the evidence that …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 1)

    … the absolute fundamental rationale of screening; should we be screening for breast cancer at all? This is a big deal, … at the heart of the core ethical judgement that needs to be made about any screening programme – do the theoretical … screening programme outweigh the definite harms that will be incurred? We talk through these issues in this Part 1 …
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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … is included in the ASAP action plan. Some measures would be subject to positive outcomes from consultation (e.g. with … impacts of tobacco tax on continuing smokers should be minimised by allocating additional revenue to supporting … sales to (i) licenced specialist vape shops which would be R18 and have cessation support materials and referral …
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  • Adaptation important but don’t give up on mitigation—what the new IPCC report means for Aotearoa

    … risks are a particular challenge in New Zealand , and will be amplified considerably by projected climate change. … and mitigation Adaptation is critical, and we should be planning for worst plausible outcomes in the longer term, … events in the immediate future. This adaptation will be challenged by the severity of climate extremes, and the …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … with smokers – whether on-pack or mass media – must be salient and timely to have strong and continuing impact on … Affairs Select Committee and Dame Tariana Turia should be congratulated for their stamina, as it is their initiative … that allow young people’s perceptions of smoking to be compared before and after the policy introduction, and …
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