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A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data
… to do with the digitalisation of historical data. But how can modern NZ do more to address health inequalities? … access to housing, and supporting improving Māori health. Many of these interventions can be targeted by area and so … via tax and welfare reforms eg, lowering income tax for people on low-incomes and ensuring welfare support is …
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Will the Government’s new Smokefree Plan achieve Aotearoa’s smokefree goal?
… was aligned with international best practice 6 and many had come to accept this was the best we could do. A common analogy for how we can place limits on our expectations references an … areas. The first aims to reduce smoking uptake among young people and includes targeted messaging and campaigns to …
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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 … prices. These solutions seem straightforward, but in many countries, including New Zealand, the implementation of … meeting those standards of good practice. For example, how well is the New Zealand Government doing on protecting …
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Meat, health, hospitals, and sustainability*
… In this blog, I look at the case for reducing the amount of meat in hospital meals and gently remind our dietitian … dairy consumption was concerning. They asserted that sick people need to eat meat. This is hard to swallow from an … cancer; these patients need less, not more, meat [4]. Many patients, as the dietitians themselves note, are …
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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 … and tooth decay. NZ (and Australia) has fallen behind many other countries, having not made any progress on … in 28.5 additional Quality Adjusted Life Years per 1000 people over their lifetime and a reduction in health …
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Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making
… health. We will traverse the range from birth to end of life care and death, efficiency versus equity, learning … sugar, salt and saturated fat. Then make it super easy for people to cycle and walk to work by good urban design and … – all in just one tablet a day. So why don’t we do this? Many reasons, not least of which I am never going to be the …
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Home modification to reduce falls – appears cost-effective in NZ
… and modification programme to prevent falls in older people. This work suggests that this intervention could … possible implementation options and the desirability of also considering group exercise programmes, which have … (Nevertheless, we note that other BODE 3 work shows that many health sector interventions which are actually …
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Lessons From history: Helping New Zealand prepare for future influenza pandemics
… in the last 100 years that have reached New Zealand. Of these, the 1918 one was by far the most severe – in fact … worse by some of the men using tents for accomodation (and many of these blew down when a fierce storm occurred during … still much to learn from this unusually severe event and how country-level pandemic preparedness and control plans …
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Media release: Youth vaping -The implications of addiction
… will mean an increase in nicotine addiction among young people, and the accompanying negative impacts on their … and a psychiatrist specialising in youth addiction outline how addiction develops and the problems it creates for young … of nicotine use on adolescents’ cognition and memory. Many will suffer a loss of physical fitness and may stop …
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Patterns of declining smoking in NZ – But more action needed by the New Government
… reasons for these trends and describe recent work on how progress could be accelerated. Just published results … recent ongoing declines in smoking, with a graph below of the trends since 2012 (tabulated data in the Appendix). … and we need more monitoring and research – as some people use e-cigarettes as well as continuing smoking tobacco …
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