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  • Time to stop dodging bullets? NZ’s eight recent border control failures

    … distinct border control failures in Aotearoa/NZ relating to the pandemic virus that causes COVID-19, since early … that the reintroduction of Alert Levels 2 and 3 would reduce September quarter national GDP growth to 12%, more … infectious aerosols are increasingly being proposed as an important transmission route. 18    Additional details: No …
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  • A new online calculator for estimating how much a society might spend on life-saving interventions

    … In this blog we describe an online calculator we developed to estimate the maximum investment society might consider … to adopt from a cost-effectiveness perspective. But most countries (including NZ) are a long way from having … many other components might be reasonably considered to be important e.g., equity impacts, public acceptability, and …
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  • Reducing nicotine in smoked tobacco products: A pivotal feature of the Smokefree Aotearoa proposals

    … Aotearoa 2025 goal and has invited submissions on its proposals. This blog is one of a series examining key aspects of the plan to help inform the debate and submissions. Here we examine the proposal to reduce the nicotine in smoked tobacco products to very low …
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  • Covid-19 is finishing the year on a high: We need a vigorous coordinated response

    … effect is that for the year 2023 as a whole, we can expect to see approximately 1,000 deaths and 12,000 … would apply a proactive and integrated approach to reduce NZ’s high burden of serious respiratory infections. … to improve current surveillance systems, including filling important gaps such as sentinel surveillance and surveillance …
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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … World Smokefree Day is an apt day on which to propose some ideas that may greatly increase momentum for … is far too slow. We need to do much more, particularly to reduce smoking among Māori and Pacific peoples [1-3]. That … application of excise/taxation  – unless required to deter youth initiation (e.g. if monitoring identifies youth uptake …
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  • Tax reform pros & cons: A brief look from a Public Health perspective

    … concerning the level of government spending, how important goals such as health, well-being or the state of the environment really are, the extent to which the system should be redistributive (i.e., with the … Similarly for using taxes to lower carbon emissions to reduce the threat of climate disruption (which has major and …
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  • Progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Congratulations to the Government

    … ideas outlined in the plan: permitting tobacco products to be sold in only a small number of stores; reducing the … to lead the world in tobacco control. The Government’s “Proposals for a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: … smokefree. 1 2 Reducing outlet numbers is likely to help reduce disparities in smoking as tobacco retailers are …
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  • More than 147km – the transformative potential of the Wellington bike network plan

    … mean most suburbs in the city have cycleways that connect to the central city and three quarters of people in the city … before they are concreted in. The cycle network will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport, improve … network is complete (see footnote at end of this blog), but this could be higher or lower depending on the quality of …
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  • Will the Health Star Rating labels improve people’s diets?

    … Consumers have a right to have informative yet easy-to-use nutrition labelling, and … testing recommendations, and this will almost certainly reduce the label’s efficacy. Now the word ‘high’ will only … costs (direct and indirect) of implementing the labelling proposals should be carefully considered and estimates …
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  • Is Euthanasia a health priority for New Zealand at present?

    … This blog discusses what will be needed to operationalise the End of Life Choice Act in the event … in Oregon it is likely that this may only benefit a small number of older educated white people. The health … service with higher opportunity cost to the State, but no patient fee. It is unlikely that a fully publicly …
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