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  • Media release: Call for transparency from the Government on tobacco industry influence and connections

    … from submissions made by tobacco companies on smokefree policy. “There are many similarities in the rhetoric the … Tobacco Control (FCTC), which includes clauses to protect policy making from tobacco industry interference. “The FCTC explicitly calls on signatories to protect policy making from tobacco industry influences,” says …
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  • The Brits are doing it: likely health benefits from a levy on soft drinks

    … and it is now out for public consultation. So what is the policy?  Basically, it is a three-tier levy of (current … but, in our view, it is necessary to provide planners and policy-makers with best estimates of the likely health … uncertainty – which is always large when consider a new policy (though there is huge international experience with …
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  • New report shows how regional plans could transform freshwater quality

    … the report’s findings are well understood and applied by policy and decision makers, they would support communities … of 2024, to give effect to the updated national freshwater policy that came into law in 2020. Changing a plan or … with its public health implications. Implications for policy As regional councils develop the next generation of …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’

    … on forestry slash and land use. Some of the potential policy implications for preventing such climate-change … and its causes, current practices and regulatory and policy settings’ relating to Gabrielle. The core focus of … the wider governmental and societal response. Government policy actions needed to prevent climate-related storm and …
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  • Perspective: Options for licensed retailing of nicotine-containing E-Cigarettes in NZ

    … consecutive NZ Governments’ poor track record in making policy to regulate addictive substances and reduce harm to … ameliorate perceptions of e-cigarettes as a recreational drug and could therefore probably help reduce youth … to achieve. Furthermore, caution is required with all new policy around addictive substances given that serial NZ …
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  • The strong case for mask requirements in public transportation and border control settings in NZ’s current COVID-19 pandemic context

    … Government provides free masks as per Hong Kong), such a policy should be given very serious consideration by health … and economic cost of prolonged lockdowns should prompt policy makers to carefully consider every potentially … use of public transport An effective mass masking policy may support a return to safe, affordable, and …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Good health in childhood is vital for lifelong wellbeing: time for a preventive approach

    … t o improve child health : a child impact lens on policy, lifting income support, action on childhood … child wellbeing and preventive health . A key task for policy-makers is for Aotearoa to make a genuine shift in … interests of children are primary considerations in all policy decisions that impact children and young people. …
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  • “Appetite for Destruction”: A new book with attitude – but also strong science

    … cat control to save birds . Think “Big Kahuna” on social policy. And think “Health Cheque” , a review of … people and readers of the Public Health Expert blog. The policy list includes: better nutrition labelling such as … a resurrection of a Government-led Healthy Eating policy (with funding!), including healthy eating …
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  • Breaking the inequity loop

    … also more Māori epidemiologists, health scientists, health policy experts, and even politicians. The all-of-population … a century to address Māori health inequalities. Government policy needs to accommodate tino rangatiratanga and allow … also more Māori epidemiologists, health scientists, health policy experts, and even politicians. In 2020, the …
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  • Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected

    … cities, and expressed strong support for continuing this policy . The New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi has … . The current government is proposing to reverse this policy direction . Submissions on this policy are due on July 11 th . So what impacts might this …
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