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  • Backing off international infant formula standards: A retrograde step

    … Summary Infant nutrition is a key determinant of health. The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk … repatriated to shareholders abroad. Long term benefits for public and population health will offset the short-term …  Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, pointed out that “high …
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  • More courage needed from our political parties—reviewing our election series

    … where political parties stand on issues that impact the health and wellbeing of our population. In this article we … do the parties stand” series, in which we put a range of public health issues to the five parties currently in … funding free public transport for children under its tax plan while doubling the price of fares for youth under 25. …
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  • Long Covid in Aotearoa NZ: Risk assessment and preventive action urgently needed

    … Summary Covid-19 can cause longer-term changes in health, collectively known as Long Covid. With only four … reduce infection and reinfection rates by ensuring that public settings are safer to access; and Expand Covid-19 … from a review of Long Covid to guide NZ’s response to this public health threat. The author group includes researchers, …
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  • A public health perspective on taxing harmful products

    … opportunities for tax reform that will potentially improve health and lower health costs, reduce health inequalities and … NZ by 2025 (a government goal [6] and one with majority public support [7]). The government is effectively saying … to help low-income smokers (as argued in a recent Action Plan [64] on reaching the Smokefree 2025 goal and elsewhere …
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  • Why we need an Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

    … and integrate these efforts to improve long-term health security in Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific, and … China. 7 Many countries have also been strengthening their public health workforce training for decades, but NZ is … efficiency.   What’s new in this Briefing We need to plan for future pandemics – which may be more severe than …
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  • Concluding the Public Health Solutions Series 

    … Over the last five weeks, Public Health Expert blog has published ten invited blogs on the best public health interventions the G overnment can put in place …
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  • Fast-track Bill puts NZ on wrong track, threatening public health

    … and development projects directly, circumventing public consultation processes and environmental protections … serious and intergenerational threats to public health.  Here we focus on the implications of the Bill for … Simeon Brown “By including 15 roading projects in the plan, Brown said the Government was signalling support for …
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  • The Pros and Cons of a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: The Case is Overwhelmingly Pro for NZ

    … Aotearoa 2025 Goal. We find that this is an ideal health goal given the large health gains, impact on reducing … Sweden and Finland. Two of us recently participated in a public debate on the Smokefree 2025 Goal at a Law and … Smoking close to others and butt littering at bus stops: pilot observational study. PeerJ . 2014;2:e272. Geist HJ. …
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  • Insights into health system costs of living and dying in New Zealand – New study

    … A study in the NZ Medical Journal shows how public spending on health varies markedly by age and proximity to death ( … for females are in Figure 2. As one example, the amount of public health Figure 2. Health system costs per person-year …
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  • Nationwide Colorectal Screening in New Zealand: a tricky balance of improving overall population health and addressing inequalities

    … data sources, ranging from the results of the New Zealand pilot screening programme through Waitemata DHB, New Zealand … is highly likely to be cost-effective, and will offer health gains to all screened population groups. However, … have been less successful in engaging with Māori, the health gains for the Māori population in New Zealand will be …
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