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  • New study on going smokefree – major economic gains for NZ society with manageable costs for government

    … lifespans) and reduced tobacco excise tax revenue (due to people quitting smoking) produce a net financial shortfall … evidence-informed government.   A recent Briefing detailed how the new coalition government is planning to repeal the … trend analysis in our published paper. There are also many other ways that NZ Government revenue shortfalls could …
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  • The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not

    … modelling 1 , opinion surveys, and in-depth analyses of people who smoke and young people, 2-4 informed the … NZ’s approach, which has already inspired global change . How much harm will this decision cause? Every year, 5000 New Zealanders die from diseases caused by smoking.  Modelling suggests that …
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  • Social Marketing for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Reminding, Reinforcing, and Changing Social Norms

    … marketing has several important roles. First, it may deter people from unhealthy behaviours, such as smoking, by … may sway opinion by exposing industry practices, such as how tobacco companies deceived and then blamed people who … very welcome. Supporting and reinforcing behaviour change Many social marketing campaigns aim to encourage compliance …
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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … intake for consultation. In this blog, we review some of the underlying evidence on the health harm of sugar, and … then pull back to consider the diet in total. There are many other aspects to the “sugar wars” that we do not cover … or ‘spurious’ associations, in such studies due to people in the lowest and highest quintiles differing for …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … for substantial and enduring change to food environments. Many other countries are implementing innovative food policy … Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) Children and Young People’s Advertising (CYPA) Code on exposure to marketing, … high in energy and sodium 6 . What surprised us was just how unhealthy some of the meal combos were, with some …
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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 … possible policy implications. We have previously outlined how difficult it is to estimate precisely the health impact … that is maximally beneficial for society – all, or as many as possible, members of society.  Similar arguments …
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  • Tackling child poverty: will the nation’s political leaders honour Richie Poulton’s legacy?

    … the 2023 election campaign. Worse, there is a risk that many low-income families will end up poorer, at least in … health and development. Above all, it has highlighted how our early life experiences and environment affect the … more starkly in the Dunedin Study than the fact that people born into poverty are more likely to suffer hardships …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … strategy is now threatened by the global emergence of new variants with increasingly high transmissibility. We … closure of the Trans-Tasman bubble, and potentially many preventable illnesses and deaths. Upgrading the Alert … evidence around the need to vaccinate children and young people to achieve collective immunity. Staying at home when …
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  • Casting a long shadow: Infection drives stomach cancer inequalities in Māori and Pacific peoples

    … likely to help reduce such inequalities. Māori and Pacific people have 3 to 6 times the rates of stomach cancer as NZ … ). This new study has substantial implications for how we might address excess stomach cancer deaths by … (7). In fact, the E-cadherin mutation does not explain many of the excess deaths in Māori and Pacific. Our new study …
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  • An upgraded Alert Level 2 is urgently needed to address the Delta Variant threat

    … and the system must be updated to address the threat of the highly transmissible Delta variant and future … While the current Alert Level 2 settings allow people to return to work and children to return to school … in a  recent paper for the NZ context [5]). Regardless of how the Alert Levels are labelled, the key logic of the …
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