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  • Expanding Ka Ora, Ka Ako is ‘bread and butter’ action to alleviate the cost-of-healthy-food crisis

    … Ora, Ka Ako, the free, healthy school lunches programme, from one quarter to at least half of all school children, is an obvious and readily available policy response to New Zealand’s unacceptably high household food …
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  • Meat, health, hospitals, and sustainability*

    … meals and gently remind our dietitian colleagues not to let their dietary advice get out of date. Over-consumption … Health Minister, the Hon Julie Anne Genter. It was good to hear Dietitians NZ, in their response, emphasising the … that sick people need to eat meat. This is hard to swallow from an organisation that is expounding outdated beliefs and …
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  • Communicating public health evidence – a successful first year for the PHCC

    … the work ahead. The PHCC has achieved its stated purpose to effectively communicate public health evidence. The … principles of public health ( The public health lens ) and how this perspective can make a tangible difference in the … and elsewhere. How you can assist the work of the PHCC To stay up to date on the latest research and commentary from …
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  • Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation

    … measures the Government should implement rapidly, to reflect its commitment to achieving the Smokefree 2025 … disquiet . The Government urgently needs to demonstrate how it will realise the goal set by a previous National … in 2012 , plain packaging transformed tobacco packages from marketing media to health promoting platforms and …
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  • Mortality declines in Aotearoa NZ during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic

    … first 2 years of the pandemic and there has also been time to prepare the country for the current Omicron wave.     Over … . The measure is defined as the ‘difference between how many people died during the pandemic, from any cause, and … the associated use of tight border controls (quarantine), stay at home orders (‘lockdowns’), and other public health …
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  • Covid-19: A planetary disease

    … and other planetary crises. I argue that major changes to our relationship with our planet and its creatures are … we went to seek them out.’ 1 Human beings have suffered from diseases arising from contact with animals since time … Preventing the next pandemic – Zoonotic diseases and how to break the chain of transmission) This blog is a much …
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  • The UK Government shows leadership with a Soft Drink Tax announcement

    … 25 teaspoons (1,2). Beverages are the highest contributor to total sugars intake for Kiwi kids and the second highest … rate of obesity in the OECD and many children suffer from tooth decay. In response to similar problems in the UK, … for a tax on sugary drinks. We have previously outlined how difficult it is to estimate precisely the health impact …
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  • Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?

    … The Government announced the Healthy Families NZ initiative to tackle our escalating obesity crisis. It will be based on … are available, it is pertinent to ask – what is HTV, how could it be adapted for New Zealand, and will it work? … are. Third, it has very visible and strong leadership from the Health Minister, David Davis, and a highly dynamic …
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  • Preventing diabetes: What does the latest modelling evidence tell us about health gains and cost savings?

    … investment in interventions of proven effectiveness to prevent type 2 diabetes could substantially benefit … diabetes [1]. However, men are more likely than women to have diabetes, Māori and Asian New Zealanders are twice as … incidence [7]. The majority of this modelled gain comes from the impacts of reducing diabetes directly, but as …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Good health in childhood is vital for lifelong wellbeing: time for a preventive approach

    … series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. Childhood provides … inadequate household income, and poor housing, leading to under-nutrition, recurrent illness, and high levels of … before the pandemic, immunisation coverage increased from a low base through a multi-pronged approach . Large …
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