639 Results

  • Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning

    … improve attendance or school achievement.  In part two of a three-part series, we highlight that the programme … programme since 2020 when it was first introduced in a few pilot schools in three regions. We have reported high … associated PISA maths achievement from regression model after socioeconomic advantage held constant. *Category “4-5 …
    Briefing

  • Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … budget allocations for infrastructure, but there is still a shortage of habitable safe housing for low-income … insecure housing, or living in severe housing deprivation often experience further debilitating health consequences, … to people unnecessarily confined in hospital and prisons. Often children and older people are not only hospitalised …
    Briefing

  • Would reducing the number of tobacco retail outlets achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal?

    … New Zealand (n=6000) How can we achieve the 2025 goal of a smokefree nation? The best approach to this tobacco endgame, as it is often called, is unclear. Options include ongoing tobacco tax rises, a sinking lid on tobacco imports, denicotinisation of tobacco …
    Briefing

  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … glyphosate (the active ingredient in “Roundup”) was a “probable carcinogen”. Instead the EPA commissioned its own … glyphosate is “unlikely to be genotoxic or carcinogenic”, a significant departure from IARC’s conclusion. An … Rowarth. Her attempt to justify what happened gives a muddled account of risk assessment, and misrepresents her …
    Briefing

  • Debate on ultra-processed foods shouldn’t derail good dietary advice

    … high in fat, sugar and salt, low in fibre and with a long shelf life. Examples include biscuits, chips, candy, … eat foods that are ‘whole’ or less processed. This can be a challenge when our food environments and food supply … And in some cases, foods classified as UFP may  still be a component of a well-balanced dietary intake —for example, …
    Briefing

  • Transport, carbon emission reduction and health- the possibility of a virtuous circle?

    … and environmental co-benefit. They have recently published a systematic review “Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change … vehicles (see the pie chart below- note: energy use is a good proxy for carbon emissions in the transport sector). … Panel on Climate Change 2007 Transport is also a key environmental determinant of the health of our …
    Briefing

  • Proposed Emissions Reduction Plan: A weak response to a weak target

    … to increased emissions so are working against the ERP2. As a result, Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) is unlikely to meet its … Contribution (NDC). Our NDC means we have committed as a country to reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to 50% … more costly than reducing emissions in the first place. 6 After 40 years of development, few CCS projects exist …
    Briefing

  • Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?

    … changes to liberalise the e-cigarette market set out a robust process for helping people who smoke to switch to … of dual use vary, many smokers appear to continue smoking after having started using an e-cigarette regularly. Even if … are to promote successful smoking cessation. Smokers often develop important practices around smoking that they …
    Briefing

  • Expansion of “green zones” may provide a chance for the global eradication of COVID-19

    … of progressive expansion of “green zones” towards a target of COVID-19 eradication. Even if eradication is not … and social measures (PHSMs) could stop the spread of a respiratory virus despite about half of spread being from … in Belgium [13]. Furthermore, the problem of guinea worm infection in domestic dogs has not stopped the global …
    Briefing

  • From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for COVID-19

    … Australia owes a debt of gratitude to its pandemic modellers, public health … politicians – we have avoided the explosive beginning of a COVID-19 epidemic that most other countries are now cursed … we are advantaged by being at the bottom of the world with a slightly longer time to respond. Without wanting to cheer …
    Briefing

Subscribe

Briefing CTA

Public Health Expert Briefing

Get the latest insights from the public health research community delivered straight to your inbox for free. Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest research, analysis and commentary from the Public Health Expert Briefing.

PHCC logo PHCC

The PHCC is funded by a philanthropic endowment from the Gama Foundation and hosted by the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington.

Contact

Email phcc@phcc.org.nz
43 Hanson Street, Mt Cook, 
Wellington | Te Whanganui-a-Tara
PO Box 7343, Wellington South 6242
New Zealand | Aotearoa

 

Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)