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  • Evidence for free school lunches: Are they worth investing in?

    … authors by request.  Evaluation findings The summary table of evaluation criteria and provisional assessments is shown. … papers for the programme. 2,3 Preliminary assessments of Value for Investment for Ka Ora, Ka Ako   1. Effectiveness … of daily nutrient requirements for growth and cognitive development. 5 Diet-related health outcomes include …
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  • (Un)licensed to kill: do we need to regulate how tobacco is sold?

    …   Example of a tobacco free retailer in Northland (Source: Northern … by children, is not consistent with the Government’s goal of “reducing smoking prevalence and tobacco availability to … levels” by 2025 (2). Why should we reduce the number of tobacco outlets?  Firstly, ease and convenience of access …
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  • In May 2022 the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 expires: what then?

    … might by 2022 be back to pre-Covid ‘normal’. Progress has of course been made, including vaccine availability. But now … This very inadequate process rightly met with considerable criticism. Minister Parker said that urgency was necessary … the Bill will require a full Select Committee process. The development of the Bill must take account of the …
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  • Media release: Poor ventilation on buses and trains – a fixable risk to health

    … on our buses and trains is leading to an increased risk of passing on respiratory infections such as Covid-19, … the Public Health Communication Centre details the results of testing on public transport from April to June. The … air as a marker for poor ventilation. When more than half of the seats were occupied, poor ventilation was recorded 94% …
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  • Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

    … the Budget to build an extra 3,000 new public homes on top of the 14,050 homes which have already been funded by the … a further 4,500 under way. T here was a welcome reduction of 10 percent in the number of households on the Ministry of Social Development’s Public Housing Waiting List between March last …
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  • The Brits are doing it: likely health benefits from a levy on soft drinks

    … diabetes and dental caries) – when considering a range of different Drinks Industry responses. In this Blog we … So what is the policy?  Basically, it is a three-tier levy of (current estimates from the UK Office for Budget Responsibility) of 18 pence per litre on ‘mid-sugar’ drinks (5 to 8g per 100 …
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  • Physical activity or nutrition interventions: which can improve population health the most and save the most health dollars?

    … We gave a presentation to Members of Parliament last week on taxes and subsidies on food, the … interventions compare to physical activity ones – in terms of health gain and potential for cost savings to the health … built urban environment and physical activity? Phew – lots of public health research required to answer this properly! …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table Series: Prevention versus treatment, voluntary versus mandatory, targeted versus untargeted – can we generalize?

    … from the league table to cautiously explore (for fear of over-generalizing) what approaches might typically … the most health gain and be best value-for-money. In two of the previous blogs in this series we have overviewed the concept of league tables to compare health sector interventions, and …
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  • Charting our way back to normal

    … Trade-offs, allows people to weigh the costs and benefits of different policy responses as Australia rolls out vaccines … as the different health losses and gains across hundreds of scenarios during the vaccine rollout as a way to road test different policy options. It is an updated version of the model that underpins the  Victorian RoadMap , and has …
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  • Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?

    … be adapted for New Zealand, and will it work? The launch of Healthy Together Victoria: Victorian Minister for Health, … Hon David Davis, Prof Boyd Swinburn, Dr Alan Shiell, CEO of the Centre for Excellence in Innovation and Prevention … are very wide . The Government is heavily exposed to criticism for this national failure because of its concerted …
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