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  • Living longer, living healthier? Latest Official Report on independent life expectancy in NZ

    … In this blog we review the latest update by the Ministry of Health on how much of NZers life expectancy can be expected to be in good … The bad news? According to this report, the percentage of our lives with some dependency due to poor health is …
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  • Implementing healthy food environment policies in Aotearoa

    … policies influencing food costs, and restricting marketing of unhealthy foods that children see. Sixty experts … to be adopted in many policy areas, such as marketing of unhealthy food to children and healthy food policies in … conducted by Health Coalition Aotearoa and The University of Auckland and supported by over 60 public health experts.  …
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  • Should NZ spend relatively more health resources on improving men’s health?

    … discusses if there is a plausible case for shifting more of the available health resources towards improving male health. Figure: Years of life lived in good and poor health (based on data in: … disorders are a key driver of the sex difference (eg, heart attacks). Among older adults, the most prominent sex …
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  • Insights into health system costs of living and dying in New Zealand – New study

    … ). It raises interesting questions about the best use of taxpayer funds for preventing and treating ill health. In this blog we detail the main findings of this study and reflect some of the possible implications.Our study used linked …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … Dr Matt Boyd (syndicated from the blog site of “ Adapt Research ” ) WHO? The Emergency Committee The … regulations (IHR) provide for the Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) in appropriate …
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  • Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … for infrastructure, but there is still a shortage of habitable safe housing for low-income households. … an inclusive, more equitable society. The rapidity of climate change bringing wilder weather requires not only an urgent upgrading of the Building Code to establish higher housing standards …
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  • Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

    … this, we need to understand their upstream experiences of housing instability. This Briefing reports the findings and implications of a study focused on LGBTIQ+ people’s experiences of housing instability.  Housing needs to be viewed as a …
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  • A National risks assessment should include pandemics and other global catastrophes

    … there is a need to: (i) improve future iterations of the public survey (eg, the next one in February/March … and (iii) explicitly articulate the extreme tail risks of each major trend identified in the LTIB (ie, nuclear war, … Briefing (LTIB) has been produced by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in conjunction with nine …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … is growing interest internationally around the setting of minimum prices on alcohol. In this blog we review a paper … in alcohol excise tax. Professor Jennie Connor, University of Otago, researches the public health impacts of alcohol policy in NZ   Last month Justice Minister Collins …
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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … intake for consultation. In this blog, we review some of the underlying evidence on the health harm of sugar, and then pull back to consider the diet in total. … if, as a society, we want to lower rates of obesity, heart disease and dental decay (and the associated cost …
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