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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … on the Ernst and Young (EY) report to the Ministry of Health, which evaluated tobacco excise tax increases as a … a high priority on improving and safeguarding the public health, including progressing key public health initiatives … Smokefree advocacy groups, NGOs, academics and, now, private sector consultants concur that current interventions …
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  • Media release: New Zealand urged to boost pandemic preparedness as bird flu spreads in US cattle

    … Public health experts are issuing a call to action for New Zealand … say the authors of a new Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . At the forefront of their … key learnings from past responses. Effective public health and social measures, and timely access to testing, …
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  • A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’

    … for some smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’. In this blog, we discuss what a new network of … we want to pave a clear way towards creating appetite for health through the solutions outlined in this new book by … to improve food environments. A separate assessment of private sector actions and practices 4 draws on experience …
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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … a first place in a world ranking by the Lowy Institute in Australia [1]. NZ’s economic indicators also compare … Credit is owed to political leadership, science advisors, health workers, iwi [3], and indeed the whole “Team of 5 … have occurred (see Table 1). In contrast, the Ministry of Health avoids the term “border failure” but rather details …
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  • Ventilation in NZ schools during the Omicron wave – results from a preliminary study

    … Ventilation is a key and relatively underutilised public health measure that can reduce the risk of Covid-19 … and Covid-19 transmission Ventilation is a key public health measure for the Covid-19 pandemic, and simply means … to an individual to potentially infect them . Both public health measures are important and their effectiveness have …
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  • Is youth vaping a problem in New Zealand?

    … systems (ENDS) and their potential contribution to public health. We then explore possible explanations for why reports … potential risks from long-term use (although the natural history of vaping among youth and long-term health effects … of concerns about vaping have come from principals of private schools and those in high socio-economic status areas …
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  • Regulation of alcohol marketing is needed to meet health, wellbeing and equity goals

    … described. In Aotearoa, alcohol results in a wide range of health and social harms affecting both drinkers and … and is distributed inequitably, 2,3 contributing to wider health and social inequities. Social costs of alcohol harm … sponsorship to alcohol-related harm has led to the World Health Organization including restrictions on marketing as …
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  • Front-of-pack nutrition labels improve understanding but don’t improve healthy food choices; Starlight Trial just published

    … Health Star Rating and Traffic Light nutrition labels have a … allocated to one of three labels: Traffic Light labels, Health Star Rating labels, or Nutrition Information Panels. … in response to the HSR system being rolled out in Australia and New Zealand. In the meantime, policy-makers …
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  • Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected

    … and don’t always improve economic productivity. The health impacts of raising speed limits are likely to be … th . So what impacts might this change have on population health and wellbeing?  Deaths and serious injuries   In 2023, … across continental Europe , the   USA , South America and Australia .  So why the policy reversal?  The case for …
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  • Highly variable cost-effectiveness with disease characteristics and age: Herceptin as a Case Study

    … we just published in the journal PLoS Medicine about the health gains, costs, and cost-effectiveness of Herceptin. It … hard and contentious issues – but talking about money and health in the same breath always is.   Most of you will … financial resources in the face of unlimited, competing health demands. Even more challenging given that there are …
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