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  • Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?

    … visited on a recent trip to Australia. Although no details are available, it is pertinent to ask – what is HTV, how could it be adapted for New Zealand, and … certainly focuses the political minds on which current problems and solutions to put into an election platform and, …
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  • Ready or not? Pandemic preparedness index and implications for NZ

    … Index is one tool for finding out how prepared countries are for pandemics. It was created in 2019 to benchmark … showed that country GHS Index scores were negatively associated with excess Covid-19 deaths (or more precisely … specific comments on the findings, are in the Appendix. What this means for NZ? We have previously described NZ’s …
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  • Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”

    … for the media, given I have an outside perspective. So what follows is my perspective – without privilege to the … other than Victoria have eliminated the virus, or are close to such a definition (28 days without community … The rest of Australia accepts Victoria as the lowest common denominator, open the borders to Victoria and run the …
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  • Taxing sugary drinks: Empirical findings out of Mexico

    … (1). This study reported that the 10% tax on SSBs was associated with an overall 12% reduction in purchases and a … of SSB tax impact compares post-tax consumption with what consumption would have been based on past trends … be expected given the evidence that lower income people are more price sensitive (see blogs from 2013 and 2014 ). …
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  • New e-liquid flavour restrictions: Potential impacts on young people and people who smoke

    … Principals’ Association commented: “ At some schools we are starting to see over 30 per cent of students have tried … restrictions include suggestions these policies could be associated with increases in youth smoking. This argument … who had recently quit and were using ENDS found the most common flavour categories used were fruit (29.4%) and tobacco …
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  • Smokefree outdoor areas: A missing part of Government’s new Smokefree 2025 proposals

    … Smokefree outdoor areas are not ‘business-as-usual’ for New Zealand. Current efforts … a vital addition The NZ Government is to be congratulated with its recent proposals for achieving the Smokefree 2025 … in trying to enforce the current unpractical guidance on what inside and outside hospitality areas are, resulting in …
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  • Reducing waiting times for cataract surgery is good value-for-money for falls prevention

    … exercise and home safety assessment and modifications) are also effective. BODE 3 modelling has shown that these … Cataracts tend to develop as we age and are the most common cause of impaired vision. Cataract surgery removes the … that sooner is better when it comes to cataract surgery. What our new study found Our study used a Markov …
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  • Ventilation in NZ schools during the Omicron wave – results from a preliminary study

    … can be prevented by window opening.  Introduction Schools are a primary setting for Covid-19 transmission. At 25 … centres across Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) were dealing with active cases . Since August 2021, people under the age … more recent guidance recommends CO 2 levels below 800ppm. What is the current ventilation situation in NZ schools? Our …
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  • Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?

    … solutions as doomed to fail. The views in this blog are expanded in greater depth in a book Dr Toomath is … and free market ideology and remains resistant to what they see as ‘nanny state intervention’ (8,9). The good … If you want to sky-dive or climb mountains, the risks associated with dying fall on you (though being injured and …
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  • Public health and Budget 2024

    … (not an election promise). Future operating allowances are too small to cover existing service levels relative to … will accrue mostly to higher income households and those with children in Early Childhood Education. A poor household … insufficient to have a meaningful impact on health.  So what does the budget mean for the Public Health sector? …
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