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  • In May 2022 the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 expires: what then?

    … Response Act 2020 (‘Covid Act’) expires on 13 May 2022. A further time-limited legal framework will be needed to support Covid policy. A new Bill will require public submissions and thorough consideration by a parliamentary select committee. The Government should begin …
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  • Ten things we can learn from new smoking and vaping data about progress to Smokefree Aotearoa 2025

    … New NZ Health Survey data show some encouraging recent reductions in smoking … goal is not yet clear. Introduction This blog provides a summary of some key points from the 2018-19 NZ Health … of the populations between surveys. … Ten things we can learn from new smoking and vaping data about progress to …
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  • Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research

    … In this blog post we report on a new study from the BODE 3 Programme that suggests that … eg, different breads. The good news, though, is that salt can be readily reduced by food reformulation – and because … our own disease and cost data. This work was also able to show that the health gain per person will likely be greater …
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  • Modelling tobacco tax – implications of BODE3 paper just out, and personal reflections on the research journey

    … Yesterday we published a paper in PLoS Medicine that estimates the health gains, … Policy-makers need the best information researchers can provide to realise this goal. We have previously … published research and blogs showing how – as best we can model – that ongoing 10% per annum increases in tobacco …
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  • Market deregulation → ↑ fast food consumption → ↑ obesity. Clever international study that includes NZ data

    … Professor Tony Blakely. A clever study just published in the Bulletin of the World … which make this observed association spurious.  And one can always quibble about whether the instrument variable was … of its publicly funded health system, then society can justifiably curtail deleterious and unintended …
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  • Media release: Why we need an Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

    … Aotearoa New Zealand needs a Centre for Disease Control (CDC) to prepare the country for … internationally.” The Covid-19 pandemic showed NZ can deliver a highly effective response to a global health … for Māori and Pacific Peoples,” says Professor Baker. “We can do better with an Aotearoa CDC bringing our expertise …
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  • Updating the role of the state: the case of housing in New Zealand

    … longer. The challenge Healthy, safe, affordable housing is a critical foundation of population health and wellbeing. … have led to increasing homelessness . This is not a new phenomenon. It has been recognised by numerous … Ora. State investment in housing The current Government can be characterised in Mariana Mazzucato’s terminology as an …
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  • Tobacco Excise Taxes and the Smokefree 2025 Goal: Some Ways Forward

    … retail crime. In this blog, we explore how allocating a proportion of tobacco tax revenue to assist smokers, and … on the Government to stop increasing the cost of tobacco, a measure they argue causes unacceptable hardship to some … governments to manage tobacco pricing, which studies show tobacco companies subvert 20 to minimise the impact of …
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  • Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact

    … be 21.4% for Māori and to 8.9% for non-Māori – compared to a projected 22.7% and 9.3% if this taxation programme had not … 2016. Prevalence reductions may be greater if we hit a ‘tipping point’ – our modelling necessarily uses … past. Thus the further tax increases will help us get to a tobacco-free NZ by 2025, but more ‘endgame’ strategies are …
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  • Fighting cold, damp housing – a big tick for Warmer Kiwi programme

    … use, result in warmer, drier living areas in winter, and can help to lower respiratory illness. Motu Research has … households improve when they their homes are insulated and a heat pump installed. The study’s results relate to: … have been demonstrated by previous studies . 4,5 We show in our study that warmer and drier environments, …
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