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  • NZ falling behind on international rules to protect kids from food marketing

    … Aotearoa New Zealand is not measuring up in relation to new guidelines released this month by the World Health … harmful impacts of food marketing. This Briefing outlines how NZ falls short, and how doing so jeopardises the nation’s … for profit. These products have negative short- and long-term impacts on children’s health 2 and are some of the …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: A core measure in New Zealand’s endgame strategy

    … Generation (SFG) policy. In this blog, we briefly explain how these three measures will contribute to the Smokefree 2025 goal, which aims to reduce smoking … deadly and lead to the premature death of two thirds of long term users.[30] While decreased overall smoking …
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  • Public health priorities in this election year

    … health challenges linked by a need for decision-makers to act.  These are all areas where we as a society have a … theme is the need to radically change our framing towards long-term thinking in all areas of policy making.  Our … in Waimate water last year as a clear example of how the current system is failing to keep our drinking water …
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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 reach the 2025 goal. This blog asks if it is enough to aim just for smokefree or whether Te Tiriti o Waitangi …
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  • Digesting things further: High dietary salt intakes are almost certainly problematic

    … post on dietary salt and health , particularly with regard to a new large prospective study (the PURE Study). This … (e.g., a meta-analysis of 147 randomised trials (2)). Long-term follow-up of the randomised trial data around … the previous blog post). Again, though, we struggle to see how this formula could generate a spurious U-shape curve – …
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  • Good firearms law needs multiple defensive layers: The Swiss cheese model

    … but makes no concrete proposals for change. It also fails to provide an overall assessment of the effectiveness of … firearms policy. Australia implemented new firearms laws in 1996, using multiple defensive layers, and has been … Review of the Arms Act 1983 is an opportunity to consider how firearms safety can be improved in Aotearoa New Zealand …
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  • Home modification to reduce falls – appears cost-effective in NZ

    … study on a home safety and modification programme to prevent falls in older people. This work suggests that this intervention … Commission [ 1 ] (see also this HQSC online guidance to health workers on preventing falls in multiple different …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … Public health responses to infectious diseases such as COVID-19 require us to draw on … values. Recognising this will help us make good decisions in difficult situations so that, for example, the need to … at two sets of values for decision-making: those informing how we make decisions (see Table 1) and those informing what …
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  • NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?

    … that actually would make a meaningful difference to health in Aotearoa NZ. The draft Strategy has many strong … bits in this Draft Strategy. It should, and does, consider how to embrace and maximise use of IT systems, smart … mention of interventions with the biggest impact – on a long timeline at least. What about cost-effectiveness? Or the …
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  • Why eliminating Covid-19 is critical: Since more waves of infection, hospitalisations and deaths are inevitable for other countries until a vaccine arrives

    … (ii) allow a sufficient proportion of the population to get infected and become immune to re-infection so there … achieving herd immunity. Given a vaccine might still be a long way off, NZ’s elimination strategy (if successful) is … estimate the total number of infected people at any point in time is to use the Infection Fatality Ratio (IFR). This is …
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