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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Protecting the healthcare system: a strategic approach to reducing infectious disease impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … In this blog we outline three immediate approaches to protect people and systems from infectious disease impacts … series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. T he SARS-CoV-2 virus may be a new pathogen, but in many ways the pandemic is simply a larger-scale …
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  • Ireland leads New Zealand in the battle against obesity

    … visiting her home-country, Ireland. Cliona sent an email to myself and other Kiwis during that time outlining the … Revised food pyramid and healthy eating guidelines Recent proposals focus on what are termed ‘top-shelf foods’ (those … the food pyramid ) and include: Reformulation of foods to reduce sugar, salt, fat Code for food sponsorship and sport …
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  • Energy poverty: The lowest-income households pay more in Aotearoa

    … Summary Energy costs for households are expected to rise significantly from 2025, due to a combination of … on Aotearoa New Zealand’s electricity system.  This is important because our poor-quality housing compared to other … of policy towards improving the performance of homes to reduce energy poverty in the longer-term.  What this Briefing …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey

    … Summary More New Zealanders than ever are vaping according to the latest data from the New Zealand Health Survey … for vaping products needs to be strengthened to minimise youth vaping while also encouraging and supporting older … to switch to vaping.  E-cigarettes or vaping may help to reduce smoking prevalence as a harm-reduced alternative to …
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  • A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development

    … Summary Significant effort is underway to address the housing crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand … ownership and private rental. Consequently Māori make up a significant proportion of public housing tenants. … and designed to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples is an important consideration for public housing providers in …
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  • New Zealand can lead the world in tobacco control: Plain packaging 2.0

    … The Prime Minister’s decision to progress plain packaging legislation “sooner rather than later” is an important step towards our smokefree 2025 goal. There are … not only deter smoking initiation (its primary objective), but also stimulate cessation among smokers. Yet while …
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  • Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame

    … We have eight more years to go until 2025 – the year of the NZ Government’s Smokefree … large health gains and cost-savings, and could largely reduce the ethnic gap in tobacco-related health inequalities. … system costs (and the timing thereof). Such information is important as it could guide decision-making and the …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … an SFG disallows the sale of smoked tobacco products to anyone born on or after a specified date, which is … an SFG policy While age restriction policies have helped reduce youth smoking, they have not eliminated inequities or …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The bigger picture benefits

    … Education, David Seymour, has claimed there is no evidence to support Ka Ora, Ka Ako, the Healthy School Lunch Programme and wants to reduce spending by half. The programme received $323.4m in … parents pay more for their kids’ lunches than others, but this is not obvious to the kids and there is no ‘stigma’ …
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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?

    … of Health proposes realigning tobacco control services to progress New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal. However, will … for outside public areas such as children’s playgrounds), but most require national policy, and thus depend on … for, the Smokefree 2025 goal. Such work is particularly important, given evidence many people misunderstand the goal …
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