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  • Would reducing the number of tobacco retail outlets achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal?

    …   Figure 1. Map of current tobacco retailers in New Zealand (n=6000) How can we achieve the 2025 goal of a smokefree nation? The best approach to this tobacco endgame, as it is often called, is unclear. …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … that New Zealand can use intense public health controls to eradicate COVID-19 from the country – we must also plan … hospitalised. 1 Better resilience for our health system in the face of COVID-19 must include reducing current … are much more likely after even light alcohol use. 7 How can we reduce non-COVID-19 ED use? So in the time of …
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  • New Vaping Bill: Some important progress but critical gaps remain

    … Summary The coalition Government has moved quickly to “crack down” on youth vaping and proposes introducing new measures in a new bill. These include disallowing disposable vapes, … than disallowing particular product types, given how easily the vaping industry circumvents regulations and …
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  • How much revenue would a New Zealand sugary drink tax raise? And how might be best to do it?

    … and Cliona Ni Mhurchu Last week a FIZZ symposium was run in Auckland. A key focus was moving New Zealand towards … briefing prepared for this FIZZ Symposium, we were asked to estimate the revenue from such a tax – which we outline … Report . But in this blog, we focus on the questions of “how much tax revenue would it raise?” and “how might the tax …
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  • Insights into health system costs of living and dying in New Zealand – New study

    … A study in the NZ Medical Journal shows how public spending on health varies markedly by age and proximity to death ( Blakely et al 2014, health system costs ). It … more on prevention can also often be cost-saving in the long run – and there seems plenty of scope for more …
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  • Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

    … Summary Several key announcements in the 2023 Budget, announced this week, have implications … article outlines the new funding and further opportunities to improve housing in Aotearoa New Zealand. K ā inga Ora – … 2023 Wellbeing Budget has now taken an even more long-sighted view by expanding the Warmer Kiwi Homes …
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  • What public health lessons can NZ still learn from the United States?

    … a wealth of potential lessons that NZ could learn from. In this blog we briefly consider some of these, particularly … expensive health care system by OECD standards, due partly to high administrative costs [1]. There are even the … Nutrition/Physical activity Various US jurisdictions seem to be more advanced than NZ in terms of: Adopting soft drink …
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  • Mounting complexities in the dietary salt & health relationship

    … on dietary salt and health has recently been reported in the New England Journal of Medicine . While reinforcing … past work that a (very) high intake of salt is hazardous to health – an increased hazard was also found for low … such a relationship (but, again, we have difficulty seeing how this might result in a “U-shaped” relationship). Unlike …
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  • Faster mortality decline – slower population ageing. How could this be?

    … of number of New Zealanders aged 65 plus Have you sat in a meeting recently, or listened to the radio, where someone is invoking the aging population … use a paper just published in PLoS ONE that demonstrates how with falling mortality rates, population aging may …
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  • Casting a long shadow: Infection drives stomach cancer inequalities in Māori and Pacific peoples

    … discuss a possible next step which could be for one DHB to pilot a ‘test and treat’ screening programme that seems … ). This new study has substantial implications for how we might address excess stomach cancer deaths by … child poverty have marked implications and can cast a very long shadow. Preventing children getting infected with H. …
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