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  • How much revenue would a New Zealand sugary drink tax raise? And how might be best to do it?

    … Professors Tony Blakely and Cliona Ni Mhurchu Last week a FIZZ symposium was run in Auckland. A key focus was moving … New Zealand towards adopting a sugary drink tax. As part of the policy briefing prepared for this FIZZ Symposium, we … done with this extra revenue? It could offset other taxes (eg, slightly lower income tax) or it could be used to fund …
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  • A new review on dietary fats: Putting its findings in context

    … This blog considers a newly published review on the evidence around dietary fat … heart disease. We have concerns about some aspects of this review, in particular the lack of context around the … fish, flax seed and nuts etc). Governments should also state more clearly that replacing saturated fat with refined …
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  • Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected

    … gas emissions. The evidence suggests that the benefits of estimated time savings are overstated and don’t always … Transport Agency Waka Kotahi has done the same on some state highways. This action was part of the Road to Zero … In 2023, 341 people died in road crashes in NZ . In around a third of these, speed was a contributing factor , and this …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, everybody now knows … Psychological research has shown that these kinds of rare but devastating events are exactly the ones humans … to drive this point home, I noted in the news today that a resident of Westport (a New Zealand town flooded by a ‘1 in …
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  • Public Health at the Movies: A Selection of 35 Top Movies

    … We have assembled a collection of 35 high quality movies as part of public … themes in them and links to more detailed descriptions (eg, Wikipedia sites) and movie trailers on YouTube. If you …
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  • Alcohol-related harms now available on demand

    … Summary Alcohol is one of the major causes of health loss in Aotearoa NZ. It is now available at people's fingertips … online have been expanding globally, with alcohol being a relatively new commodity to be sold in this way in …
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  • Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

    … this, we need to understand their upstream experiences of housing instability. This Briefing reports the findings and implications of a study focused on LGBTIQ+ people’s experiences of housing … 2–4   This Briefing builds on research that was  the first in Aotearoa to look specifically at LGBTIQ+ people’s …
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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: counterarguments to industry claims

    … 2025 goal and proposes substantially reducing the number of retailers selling tobacco. In this blog, we examine … tobacco companies’ interests. Introduction Achieving a substantial reduction in the number of outlets selling … are vast [8]. Re-allocating the physical retail space used for tobacco products to suppliers of higher profit …
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  • Study of NZ fruit & vegetable prices suggests markets best value-for-money

    … in PLOS ONE . In this blog post we elaborate on some of the details, including the finding that prices were … generally lower at markets compared to supermarkets (with a family of four potentially saving up to $49 per week by … occasions, and the nature of these markets varied widely (eg, in the amount of “organic produce” for sale). These …
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  • Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?

    … What does Victoria University have in common with Stanford, the Australian National University … explore the arguments around such disinvestment from a public health perspective.   To understand why these … are disinvesting, check out the Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5 th …
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