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  • New standardised packaging regulations: Some good steps, but many missed opportunities

    … benchmark and why these are important, but also examines how the regulations could have gone further and suggests … while never smoking has increased; as predicted young people seem to have been the main beneficiaries of this … regulations that advance those introduced in Australia; many changes are important and will undoubtedly curtail some …
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  • Worth its weight: Building insulation in New Zealand

    … au/services-and-advice/households/energy-efficiency/toolbox/how-to/check-your-ceiling-insulation Building insulation … to the wider environmental challenges they will face. Many children and young people understand the importance of environmental …
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  • The UK Government shows leadership with a Soft Drink Tax announcement

    … environment. NZ adults consume approximately 29 teaspoons of sugar per day, and children consume approximately 25 … NZ has the third highest rate of obesity in the OECD and many children suffer from tooth decay. In response to similar … for a tax on sugary drinks. We have previously outlined how difficult it is to estimate precisely the health impact …
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  • Physical activity or nutrition interventions: which can improve population health the most and save the most health dollars?

    … here ). In this blogpost we go into some extra detail on how such nutritional interventions compare to physical … table below, taken from a Lancet paper, is a summary of many research projects in Australia using the ACE-Prevention … value for money. For example, giving out pedometers to people is a simple and very cost-effective intervention . But …
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  • Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking

    … (SNZ IDI). NZ’s data systems are world leaders in many ways, with the IDI gaining a range of international … similar systems. The IDI contains linked data about people and households, from government agencies, Stats NZ … and has an expansion programme known as IDI2 looking at how they can increase the use and improve the usability of …
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  • Advance Care Planning – good for patient care and better use of health dollars?

    … (2). This problem will be exacerbated as the baby boomers die. Expenditure on dying people is going to rise. However Advanced Care Planning can … treatment as a last chance without even giving any idea of how big that chance might be. It even turns out that some …
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  • Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact

    … NZ Government announced it would continue it’s programme of yearly 10% tobacco tax increases for the years 2017 to … point coming up, where the price gets to a point where many people ‘see the writing on the wall’ and quit. This would …
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  • Market deregulation → ↑ fast food consumption → ↑ obesity. Clever international study that includes NZ data

    … Blakely. A clever study just published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization has analyzed how changes in fast food transactions per capita within 25 … important, as it addresses confounding bias that plagues many studies.  The study found that an increase of 10 fast …
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  • Why don’t we make rental housing safer?

    … by institutional arrangements that favour the framing of home injury as a product of individual behaviour and … give rise to these inequalities in conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age’ 12 . Effective … risk posed by housing remains a challenge for NZ, and the many other countries that share incomplete, fragmented, …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: Are they worth investing in?

    … is a mixed-methods, participatory system that assesses how well resources are used and how much value is created. 1 … and monitoring data to create an evidence base for each criterion. Programme performance (excellent, good, … authors by request.  Evaluation findings The summary table of evaluation criteria and provisional assessments is shown. …
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