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Media release: Treaty Principles Bill poses major risk to public health and equity
… The controversial Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill threatens public health and equity in … Jones and co-authors examine the critical implications of the Bill and the urgent need for public opposition to …
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Tobacco product innovation in a smokefree world. Oxymoron or commercial cynicism?
… Gendall Major tobacco companies have presented a vision of a smokefree world, where smoking prevalence has fallen to … strategy confirms long-held doubts about the sincerity of tobacco companies’ intentions. We report on our recently … to non-smokers and smokers. Philip Morris’s establishment of the Foundation for a Smokefree World (FSFW) recognises …
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Should you swap sugar for artificial sweetener? Maybe not if you’re a mouse, but what if you’re a human?
… we should reduce our daily sugar intake to less than 5% of total energy . In this blog, we consider two new articles … widely covered in the media, and one a systematic review of human studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition . The former shows deleterious effects …
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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 we know that the need for some form of Covid management, and hence a legal framework for such … Act that should be included? For example, refining some of the offence and penalty provisions may be appropriate. And …
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Smokefree cars legislation: Should the new government make this a priority?
… the case for the prioritisation by the new Government of a law for smokefree cars carrying children. This would … The new government has many problems to address. Years of minimal legislation for population health means that the … infant death, among many other conditions.[1] The amount of tobacco smoke pollution in cars can be worse than in the …
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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 …
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Bowel cancer screening – An interesting new US study and thoughts about the NZ situation
… a top US journal (JAMA). We discuss the cost-effectiveness of such screening and consider the current NZ context for … exception is colorectal cancer screening. A recent review of screening programmes , by public health practitioners, cast out the majority of screening programmes we embark upon in health as of …
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Fighting cold, damp housing – a big tick for Warmer Kiwi programme
… in Aotearoa. The programme will also be lowering the risk of respiratory disease caused by our damp, cold houses. … Study team worked to determine if the health and wellbeing of people in households improve when they their homes are … heating, especially given the ongoing climate and cost of living crises. To address this need, in the recent Budget …
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Media release: Our fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care
… says New Zealand is clearly experiencing a fourth wave of Covid-19 and health authorities should be reminding us about the benefits of vaccination and the value of measures to help reduce transmission. Professor Baker and …
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Media release: Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023
… and unhealthy food are responsible for almost a third of Aotearoa New Zealand’s preventable health burden, yet a … support evidence-informed policies that limit the harm of these products. The parties currently in parliament were … failed to respond on this question.” On tobacco and vaping, this Labour Government has passed world-leading …
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