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Taxes on fizzy drinks in NZ: preventing premature deaths and raising funds for health
… A task of public health research is to quantify the health impact of interventions that are upstream and are political. In the food environment, we strongly suspect that regulation of the food industry, food reformulation, marketing and price …
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Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?
… blog-perspective, obesity expert Dr Robyn Toomath outlines the dogmas and arguments for the ‘individual-responsibility’ explanation and (lack of) solution to the obesity epidemic. She then points to the market failures …
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Media release: Why the Smokefree legislation must stay - Laying out the evidence:
… Public Health experts have laid out the facts showing the Government’s plan to repeal the world-leading smokefree legislation runs directly …
News
Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”
… A bit like a letter home. I have now been full-time at the University of Melbourne since 2019. Before that, I was 20 years at the University of Otago, Wellington. Indeed, I set up this … medicine specialist in Victoria, as a person who is new to the State, and not part of the formal apparatus, has been an …
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Can pandemic threats justify border closure for island nations like NZ?
… In a study we just published in a journal, we explored the costs and benefits of complete border closure in NZ in … border could provide overall societal benefit – even with the disruptions it would cause to tourism and trade. … faces increasing risks of new pandemics because of the growing density of human populations and various …
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Where do the parties stand? – Introducing our election series
… Our elected representatives make choices that impact the long-term health and wellbeing of every New Zealander. These decisions are not confined to the health system but range across all parts of our society. … long-term planning, tax, water quality, Māori health inequity, and transport. He hauora te taonga Health is a …
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Tax policy reform: equity, fairness, and health
… Summary The way that we collect government revenue in Aotearoa New … a 50% tax rate on income over $150,000, instead of the current top rate of 39% over $180,000. A 2% annual tax on … taxes, has the potential to sustain inequity along racial lines.” 13 And, given that critical …
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Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change
… on roofs, ruined farmland and closed roads. Here we assess the reported damage to water infrastructure in this disaster … and treating waste. This infrastructure is vulnerable to the more frequent and extreme weather events associated with … extensive damage to the water supply pipe into the city, breaking it in ten places. It took 45 days to repair and …
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Evidence for free school lunches: The bigger picture benefits
… 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 2023 and fed more than … evaluations, there is ample international evidence about the value of school lunch programmes in other Western …
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Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study
… A just published modelling study by the BODE 3 Team has reported that “home safety assessment and … and citizens might wish to consider doing in response to the evidence. The NZ Burden of Disease Study (NZBDS) reported that falls …
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