654 Results

  • Food and beverage taxes for a healthier diet: The Pacific experience

    … the Pacific and globally we are seeing a growing impact of the food environment on chronic disease burdens. In … unhealthy food and drinks being introduced since the turn of the century. NZ is at risk of persisting major health burdens by not using such tools to …
    Briefing

  • 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 … lower at markets compared to supermarkets (with a family of four potentially saving up to $49 per week by buying at … central and local government could do to facilitate use of such markets. The inadequate consumption of fruits and …
    Briefing

  • Public Health Solutions Series: Simple transport system changes could quickly relieve the crisis in our hospitals

    … use and speed limit reductions.   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective … Image by Alistair Woodward The transport system is one of the largest sources of death and ill health in Aotearoa, through air pollution …
    Briefing

  • Rising congenital syphilis in Aotearoa New Zealand needs a strong response

    … Summary The global resurgence of syphilis is affecting Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). It is … for women in pregnancy and their pēpē. The consequences of syphilis in pregnancy include fetal death, prematurity, … and critically ill newborns. Prior to 2017, reports of congenital syphilis were rare however in the last 5 years …
    Briefing

  • ACC turns 50: A more modern approach to injury prevention needed

    … direction would be a worthy advance to celebrate 50 years of serving Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). The Accident … The blueprint for this scheme was the Woodhouse Report of 1967 which had set out clear principles, addressing both … everyone in the community benefits from the contributions of individuals through work, recreation, and volunteer …
    Briefing

  • Perspective: The NZ Health Research Strategy Discussion Document – much scope for improvement

    … alternative Vision Statement is proposed. It makes a lot of sense for a country to have a health research strategy. It … this process and for inviting submissions (due by the end of this month) on its Discussion Document (1). Unfortunately the current version of this document has many problematic aspects – and it will …
    Briefing

  • A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’

    … for health’. In this blog, we discuss what a new network of university researchers and NGOs are developing to get us on the road to implementation of smart food policies in New Zealand and internationally. If … policies is lagging, mainly due to powerful industry influences. Some renowned scientists recently even made a …
    Briefing

  • Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?

    … for the ‘individual-responsibility’ explanation and (lack of) solution to the obesity epidemic. She then points to the …   If you stop and ask people on the street, nine out of ten (including the overweight ones) will say that you get … your own. This is not just due to imperfect understanding of geno-environmental interactions, but because the notions …
    Briefing

  • Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further

    … Other recent research highlights the overall importance of inequalities to health, with a meta-analysis reporting … rates in NZ over 30 years. We used cohort studies of the entire NZ population using probabilistically-linked … data from 1981 to 2011 (68.9 million person years of follow-up). All-cause mortality rates were highest for …
    Briefing

  • A pandemic that won’t go away – as Covid enters its 5th year, NZ needs a realistic strategy

    … accordingly. Evolving variants are driving ongoing waves of infection, prolonging the pandemic's impact. It remains a leading cause of hospitalisation and death, particularly in older … with influenza and other respiratory infections. The core of this strategy is high vaccine coverage, testing and …
    Briefing

Subscribe

Briefing CTA

Public Health Expert Briefing

Get the latest insights from the public health research community delivered straight to your inbox for free. Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest research, analysis and commentary from the Public Health Expert Briefing.

PHCC logo PHCC

The PHCC is funded by a philanthropic endowment from the Gama Foundation and hosted by the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington.

Contact

Email phcc@phcc.org.nz
43 Hanson Street, Mt Cook, 
Wellington | Te Whanganui-a-Tara
PO Box 7343, Wellington South 6242
New Zealand | Aotearoa

 

Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)