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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … It is now time to reduce the number and density of retail outlets selling … have taken lists with us and been determined not to depart from these.  Unplanned purchases illustrate how highly visible in-store stimuli such as shelf-talkers, …
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  • NZ’s smart use of big data: Employment & income impacts of selected health conditions

    … is making rapid strides in the smart use of big data to provide better health information for decision-makers. … for disease prevention and treatment interventions from a societal perspective.   In December last year the … conditions There is growing international interest in how health conditions might impact on productivity gains (via …
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  • Taxing sugary drinks: Empirical findings out of Mexico

    … implementation. In this blog we examine this latest study, how it fits in with existing evidence, and how these results might apply to improving the control of obesity and improving child oral health in New Zealand.   ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­From 1 January 2014, Mexico implemented an excise tax of 1 …
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  • Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected

    … Summary The government is proposing to increase speed limits. Raising speed limits will lead to … If more people drive because they don’t feel safe, especially with young children, then there is extra … in urban areas. 14   There are also questions about how travel time savings are used. Any benefits are based on …
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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … evidence on the health harm of sugar, and then pull back to consider the diet in total. There are many other aspects … to achieve 10% let alone 5% of total energy intake a day from sugar. As is widely known, sugar causes tooth decay and … food”. … 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way …
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  • Food taxes and subsidies will probably protect health & reduce inequalities – but the devil is in the detail

    … including taxes and subsidies on food. In the first paper from the SPEND Project , we found that across 20-odd food groups, low-income people and Māori tended to change their consumption of foods more in response to … We think our SPEND price elasticities are not too bad for how consumption of, say, cheese changes when you change the …
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  • Is Keytruda for advanced melanoma cost-effective? Applying the BODE3 rapid cost effectiveness calculator

    … pembrolizumab, is a new immune inhibitor drug that appears to have pronounced effectiveness in slowing – even reversing … much media attention in recent months, and even calls from politicians to over-rule the PHARMAC process (currently … “cost-effective”? Should we fund it? This all depends on how much funding is available to reallocate in a given year, …
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  • In May 2022 the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 expires: what then?

    … A further time-limited legal framework will be needed to support Covid policy. A new Bill will require public … introduction in February 2022.   Image by  mohamed Hassan  from  Pixabay Background The COVID-19 Public Health Response … management, is likely to be needed for some time yet: for how long we do not know. A new Covid Act? We need to be …
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  • Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”

    … medicine specialist in Victoria, as a person who is new to the State, and not part of the formal apparatus, has been … – better than I expected. The conundrum, though, is how does Australia go forward. There are three options: Victoria is largely bordered off from the rest of Australia, living in suppression-land, until …
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  • Media release: NZ failing to protect children from unhealthy food marketing – new WHO guidelines

    … Aotearoa New Zealand is failing to protect children from unhealthy food marketing on many levels when measured up … new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines according to public health researchers. WHO released a new set of …
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