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  • The cost burden of excess weight in New Zealand: Sizing up a new report

    … The latest New Zealand Health Survey results show a substantial up-tick in both childhood and adult … of a condition by estimating the healthcare costs that can be attributed to the condition (direct costs), the …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques

    … 2025” Action Plan was launched at Parliament on 2 August. A previous blog described its key features and a rationale … and newer products should be regulated (eg, where they can be sold, and the extent of controls on marketing and … from trials, including a NZ study, that e-cigarettes can be effective smoking cessation aids, and at least as …
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  • Monitoring and forecasting the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand including the successful impact of the lockdown

    … the calculation of the effective reproduction number and show the major impact of the lockdown on containing the … virus spread across the globe in early 2020, there was a clear need to find a modelling approach that could be used … individual outbreaks. For this reason, mathematical models can be used to quantify R, which in turn can provide …
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  • “Action for Healthy Waterways”: some big ticket actions that the Government has neglected

    … The NZ Ministry for the Environment has produced a valuable discussion document with many good ideas for … in an integrated strategy to improve our waterways: a fertiliser tax, taxing ruminant animal products, and … not a perfect method, but that such economic instruments can be part of an effective policy mix to solve nitrogen …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks

    … long - term global risks and their intention to introduce a Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act. All five parties … experts summarise and analyse the parties’ responses. You can read more about the survey in our introductory article , … war”. National Argued that the most important thing we can do “is to grow the economy.” This would allow for …
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  • “Why not just ban it?” Is it time to consider ending tobacco sales?

    … why don’t you just ban it?’ Indeed, Hone Harawira drafted a Private Members Bill proposing exactly that back in 2006. … This blog considers some arguments for and against a ban on the production (other than tobacco grown for … on the location, density and type of retailers that can sell tobacco products. Compared to tobacco sales this …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … dispute settlement (ISDS), the TPP agreement as a whole applies to tobacco, and breaches of the TPP might, in … the partial investor-state dispute settlement exclusion is a small step in the right direction, the fundamental … which relate to tobacco as well as other goods, and which can conflict with tobacco control measures, include: states …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … transmission of the pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2, to zero by a series of public-health interventions and rapid responses … included fatigue, breathing difficulties, joint pain, and chest pain. Larger formal studies are now underway, including … show persistence of the virus itself has not, as far as I can tell, been reported. Conclusions A central issue with the …
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  • Progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Congratulations to the Government

    … the plan: permitting tobacco products to be sold in only a small number of stores; reducing the nicotine in tobacco … The consultation process is open until 31 May (feedback can be submitted here ); after analysing the feedback, the … report that tobacco’s ubiquity triggers relapse and can undermine their journey to becoming smokefree. 1 2 …
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  • Urgent action needed to prevent a measles epidemic in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … Summary Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) risks a large measles epidemic. Child immunisation coverage at two … Urgent action in the absence of widespread disease can be a difficult sell. But responding to an outbreak will … Regulations 1995 require parents/guardians of children to show their child’s immunisation certificate when these …
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