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  • Protecting children and young people from unethical junk food marketing: Upgrading the advertising codes

    … blog looks at five important ways that the Children’s Code for Advertising Food could be substantially improved to … favour a regulatory approach (given the lack of evidence for an industry-controlled process and voluntary codes (1)), … Advertising Codes in NZ does present another opportunity for the food industry to show they do want to be part of the …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … out’ from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Treaty means for public health. Despite the partial exemption of … tobacco. The TPP provides mechanisms to pursue complaints for breaches of its obligations in addition to ISDS. These … has been described as a ‘tobacco carve-out’, and a ‘win’ for tobacco and global health [1]. The effort that was …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … this approach. We also consider the potential implications for New Zealand around combining minimum pricing with … Justice Minister Collins rejected a minimum pricing policy for alcohol . Citing reasons of: “no compelling evidence that … as heavy drinkers; and just creating a profit windfall for the alcohol industry. The latter point is difficult to …
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  • Three Waters reforms are needed to protect public health and ensure changes are economically sustainable and efficient

    … flaws in Aotearoa New Zealand’s (A-NZ) regulatory system for drinking water, which were highlighted in the subsequent … colloquially called “Three Waters” that are responsible for reforming the waste, storm and drinking water systems in … of the entity and appoint the executive board responsible for running the entity. Unfortunately, the public discourse …
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  • A 100 years ago today – the likely first NZ death from the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … of 1931 (the next biggest natural hazard event since 1900 for NZ [2]). In previous historical/epidemiological work we have defined the likely pandemic period (for the particularly serious “second wave”) for the NZ population as starting on 27 August 1918 in the …
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  • Why don’t we make rental housing safer?

    … Summary Why don’t we regulate or enforce safety for rental housing when the evidence points to cost-effective … and cost-effective solutions. When homeowners had their houses modified with the installation of handrails on stairs; grab rails for bathrooms; outside lighting; edging for outside stairs; …
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  • Updating the role of the state: the case of housing in New Zealand

    … has been recognised by numerous academics and commentators for more than a decade. However, prevailing neo-liberal … was at a 60-year low, with only half of adults owning houses. This is in a country, which traditionally had one of … the largest number in 20 years. Currently there are 2,275 houses under construction, plus another 800 or so Kiwibuild …
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  • Being Bolder – Public Health Endgames for NZ

    … tobacco endgame in New Zealand (the Smokefree Nation Goal for 2025). This blog post provides a brief historical … and save costs (i.e., no more treatment costs or need for smallpox vaccination). A few other diseases are on the cusp of global eradication. For polio it is just three countries to go (Nigeria, …
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  • Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status

    … help accelerate rapid progress back to elimination status for NZ while minimising disruption of economic activity and … to regain its former elimination status [1], while waiting for a vaccine or therapeutics to become available. A key goal is for NZ to regain elimination status without resorting to a …
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  • Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?

    … , we examined the potential role of increasing tobacco tax for achieving an end to the tobacco epidemic in NZ. The … particular advantages include: (i) a strong evidence-base for effectiveness (e.g., as reviewed by the agency IARC); … function of government (which makes it hard for the tobacco industry to mount legal challenges); and …
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