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  • An open letter to Cabinet Ministers from 74 health professors calling for a sugary drinks tax

    … last year with no extra funding, is not sufficient to change current trends. We urge you to implement a significant … them off implementing cost-effective policies that could change current trends and help to create a legacy of … industry arguments about tax and responses Taxes won’t change people’s habits Taxes certainly change the consumption …
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  • Taxes on fizzy drinks in NZ: preventing premature deaths and raising funds for health

    … precisely the health impact of food taxes and subsidies .  Change the price of one food, and not only does its consumption change, but also the consumption of foods that are … how the industry and consumer preferences will respond and change in the future).  That all said, it seems very likely …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … (31.6, 63.2) 47.8 (40.7, 54.6) 47.6 (42.4, 52.8) Mediation Change (SEP to SEP + Tob) 0.8 (-2.4, 4.0) 1.2 (0.4, 2.8) 2.0 … (20.6, 46.3) 40.8 (33.3, 47.9) 49.7 (43.4, 55.7) Mediation Change (SEP to SEP + Tob) 3.0 (1.7, 7.4) 3.7 (1.5, 5.8) 7.7 … over and above socioeconomic position, and does this change over time? As hinted above, we expect smoking to be a …
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  • Note to the Havelock North Inquiry – Think Big

    … the scale of water catchments, agricultural economies and climate systems.   “Alarming new threats to NZ’s drinking … and a half times that of Australia (Sears et al, 2011). Climate is another important driver of disease risk. Of all … of course to note as well that projections of climate change anticipate up to a 4 fold increase in extreme heavy …
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  • Food taxes and subsidies will probably protect health & reduce inequalities – but the devil is in the detail

    … 20-odd food groups, low-income people and Māori tended to change their consumption of foods more in response to price … bad for how consumption of, say, cheese changes when you change the price of cheese.  But what can really catch you … or how consumption of cheese changes when you change the price of bread.  These are genuinely difficult to …
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  • Comparing health interventions in a meaningful way – Introducing the BODE3 Interactive League Table

    … less cost-effective than preventive interventions than change the “obesogenic environment” (eg, via taxing sugary … with intervention effectiveness (i.e. individual’s change in dietary salt intake) lasting 3 years, then decaying … is often directed to counselling interventions to change individual behaviour, rather than structural …
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  • A single shot to prevent cancer? HPV vaccine can!

    …   In this Briefing, we describe a missed opportunity to change the School Year 8 HPV immunisation programme from a … recommendations.” This allows health authorities to change to a single dose schedule, without changes to the data … by the UK and Australia. It took three years for NZ to change from 3-dose to a 2-dose schedule for HPV vaccine. …
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  • A preventable measles epidemic: Lessons for reforming public health in NZ

    … 1991 Green and White paper ushered in a radical neoliberal change in the organisation of health services in NZ [ 6 ].  … to large complex issues such as the health effects of climate change [ 10 ], the looming antimicrobial resistance … more alarming are the rising environmental consequences of climate change and ecological collapse that take us beyond …
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  • Protecting fresh waterways in Aotearoa/NZ: The strong Public Health case

    … in New Zealand could reduce vulnerability to the impact of climate change on protozoan diseases” [18]. Contaminated freshwater … might be increasing with heavy rainfalls associated with climate change (though this may vary by region around the …
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  • Ireland leads New Zealand in the battle against obesity

    … take account of is that many forces are actively impeding change for those well aware of the potential health and … of overweight and obesity. The Taskforce’s social change strategy is to give people meaningful choice. Choice, or the capacity to change (because the strategy is all about change), is …
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