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  • NZ falling behind on international rules to protect kids from food marketing

    … to new guidelines released this month by the World Health Organization (WHO) which recommend policies to protect … have negative short- and long-term impacts on children’s health 2 and are some of the largest contributors to global … exposure to unhealthy food and drink marketing has public health implications towards poorer dietary behaviours, …
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  • Protecting children and young people from unethical junk food marketing: Upgrading the advertising codes

    … children and young people from obesity and poor oral health. Although public health experts would generally favour a regulatory approach … for example as expressed in the final report of the World Health Organization Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity …
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  • Severe weather events linked to outbreaks of crypto in Aotearoa – New study

    … an announcement in April 2024 on changes to the Resource Management Act, the Government reiterated its plan to … quality to be prioritized in policy to protect public health. The Government should be discouraged from its plans … Assoc Prof Leah Grout , Southern California University of Health Sciences, USA  Prof Simon Hales , Department of Public …
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  • A Statue of Merit: Dr Margaret Cruickshank and the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … commemorating the racist Confederate leaders of the American Civil War are getting bad press at present in the … unto Death”. Beside the statue is also an information board, which refers to the influenza pandemic and … and [2]). Indeed, in 2007 the New Zealand Ministry of Health named a pandemic preparedness exercise “Exercise …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … blog post ). So to help with strategic planning by the NZ health sector, we aimed to outline various strategic options … the Smokefree 2025 Goal. Appendix B covers background information and assumptions relating to this option list. In … which would be best. Lessons from other endgames in public health may be relevant. See this blog post. * Our general …
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  • Daily nicotine use increases among youth in Aotearoa NZ: The 2021 Snapshot Y10 Survey

    … of young people aged 14-15. The survey provides important information on vaping and smoking among an age group where … of negative impacts on the respiratory, oral and mental health of adolescent users and reported these effects were … an earlier blog examining a presentation made by British American Tobacco (BAT) to investment analysts in 2018, a …
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  • How should we manage the harm caused by tobacco product waste?

    … time declared filtered cigarettes were “Better for your health” and sought to reassure smokers that switching to a … butts to degrade is low, we provided respondents with this information and then reassessed their perceptions of … tobacco companies to pay for clean-up costs or assume management of TPW management, and a price increase of $2 per …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 goal is in danger of receding – will the Ministry of Health’s ‘realignment’ get it back on track?

    … The Ministry of Health proposes realigning tobacco control services to … of funding for anti-tobacco groups, the Ministry of Health now concedes” (21 April, 2015). This statement implies … face-to-face stop smoking services, and local and national health promotion and advocacy services contracts, end in June …
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  • Proposed Emissions Reduction Plan: A weak response to a weak target

    … be negative consequences for our environment, population health and ultimately our economy. This Briefing summarises … adaptation and mitigation policies together, with improved health and wellbeing as important considerations in … of Otago Wellington Prof Sara Walton , Department of Management at the Otago Business School, University of Otago …
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  • Expanding the Definition of Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Mindset Change to Help Achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … be implemented. Image by  Tumisu  from  Pixabay   Public health strategies have often used the term “harm reduction” … that aim not to prevent an activity, but to reduce harmful health, economic, legal, cultural and social consequences of … to ensure harm reduction measures bring overall population health benefits. In Aotearoa NZ, recent data reporting on …
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