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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 … possible policy implications. We have previously outlined how difficult it is to estimate precisely the health impact … drivers of increasing obesity rates are upstream, stemming from changes in our food environment.  Politicians and the …
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  • Rising congenital syphilis in Aotearoa New Zealand needs a strong response

    … death, prematurity, and critically ill newborns. Prior to 2017, reports of congenital syphilis were rare however in … 5 years NZ has had over 25 cases.  Some hapū māmā continue to miss out on essential antenatal healthcare, including … What is congenital syphilis? Congenital syphilis results from fetal infection with Treponema pallidum transmitted …
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  • Implementing healthy food environment policies in Aotearoa

    … conducted for the fourth time in Aotearoa New Zealand to benchmark government policies influencing food … survey is urgently needed. This briefing outlines how we conducted Food-EPI in Aotearoa NZ . It looks … progress to be made, there needs to be clear leadership from the Public Health Agency, and development of a …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … and livestock urine). Nitrate leached into water from dairy farming has increased substantially since 1990 … mg/L NO3-N (from here on simply mg/L) in drinking water to bowel cancer have raised public concerns over nitrate … accelerated the rate of groundwater degradation. 11 How might nitrates be linked to adverse birth outcomes? The …
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  • Red meat & processed meat: Summarising the Public Health isues

    … by the recent highly publicised review on the cancer risk from processed meat and red meat. Here we briefly look at … data on red meat. Processed meat Processed meat refers to meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, … highest category of strength of evidence (see Figure), but how strongly is processed meat actually associated with …
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  • NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?

    … that actually would make a meaningful difference to health in Aotearoa NZ. The draft Strategy has many strong … IT systems and individual-level actions, and drifts away from population-level prevention activities that would have … bits in this Draft Strategy. It should, and does, consider how to embrace and maximise use of IT systems, smart …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … supported by health researchers, we know little about how young people – those targeted by the SFG policy – … an SFG disallows the sale of smoked tobacco products to anyone born on or after a specified date, which is … a full solution as it continues to imply that smoking is ‘safe’ or ‘acceptable’ beyond a certain age. 2 The SFG …
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  • Smokefree Laws: Reducing tobacco outlets will decrease crime

    …   Summary Government spokespeople have failed to provide either evidence or logic to justify the repeal of world-leading smokefree legislation. … to reduce the number of outlets selling tobacco products from around 6000 to 600.  Reviews and modelling studies …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning

    … Associate Minister of Education, David Seymour wants to cut funding to the Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunch … absence of direct impact evaluation, we present findings from three large-scale international studies, describing the … groups with whānau and high school students to document how the programme reduces financial hardship and discussed …
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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 … learners in 998 schools. In addition to published findings from Ka Ora, Ka Ako evaluations, there is ample international …
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