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  • Action needed to halt New Zealand’s obesity epidemic: Themes from Big Food Symposium

    … policies to prevent obesity as well. Evidence-based policy options identified include: banning junk food … Without supplementing community action with such upstream policy action, the experts at this Big Food Symposium believe … speaking at the meeting were agreed on the need for policy intervention to support children, parents and …
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  • Media release: Associate Health Minister’s tobacco policy contradicts official advice, aligns with industry lobbyists

    … Associate Health Minister Casey Costello’s recent tobacco policy recommendations conflict with official advice, … Centre.  Drawing on briefings, cabinet papers, and policy submissions, the authors show that Associate Health … organisations that list tobacco companies as members, in policy submissions and opinion pieces. “The New Zealand …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … In this blog, we review two key policy interventions included in the Smokefree Bill currently … retailer s. We do not consider the smokefree generation policy , a third key measure in the Smokefree Bill, as its …
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  • The race to be the first place in Aotearoa to be smokefree

    … 2013 there has been some particular bursts of planning and policy activity. These activities have included medium-term … 2014 the Council has also had a smokefree social housing policy which designates all new or refurbished units as … Auckland of under 3% by 2025. The review of the Smokefree Policy was brought forward to 2015 and will look at whether a …
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  • Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax

    … by around 10%. We also discussed some of the potential policy ideas for helping with such a shift, including a … our publication emphasised the complexities of tax policy in this area, in part at least due to the complexities in diet. For example, any blunt tax policy that merely shifts consumption from foods with …
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  • Emphasis on indigenous forests in ETS would benefit public health

    … water.  It is therefore imperative that all climate change policy takes public health into account now and in the … have poorly integrated public health needs into climate policy. The significant impacts to communities' health and well-being from climate change policy is often obscured or ignored when the problem that …
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  • Tackling child poverty: will the nation’s political leaders honour Richie Poulton’s legacy?

    … the extraordinary achievements, significant findings, and policy relevance of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and … fund tax cuts for middle-income earners. This change in policy direction would dishonour Professor Poulton’s … poverty and the need for governments to take effective policy measures to minimize such poverty and alleviate its …
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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … to a school, will not be permitted to sell tobacco. This policy doesn’t affect existing tobacco retailers, meaning … to Huntington Park.  We came up with a hypothetical policy that could help reduce the number of shops that sold tobacco here. The policy was this: as of 2020, retailers wanting to open up a …
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  • The science is certain: masks work. Policy and practice must support their use

    … for Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). We need to upgrade mask policy to align with current evidence. NZ is missing out on … and our pandemic preparedness. 7 Next steps to bring our policy and practice into line with evidence NZ needs to … and public health decision-makers: Implementing a mask policy to improve respiratory infection prevention and …
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  • Does change in income and deprivation change your smoking risk? Yes, but in different directions.

    … answer to these questions matter, both for tobacco control policy and political debate.  Moreover, not all is as you … smoked or not. What does this mean for tobacco control policy?  Generally, reducing peoples’ deprivation through wider social policy should also facilitate reducing smoking rates.  But …
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