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  • Media release: NZ failing to protect children from unhealthy food marketing – new WHO guidelines

    … Aotearoa New Zealand is failing to protect children from unhealthy food marketing on many levels when measured up against new … - NZ falling behind on international rules to protect kids from food marketing - Dr Egli and colleagues match up NZ’s …
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  • NZ’s “Team of 5 million” has achieved the lowest COVID-19 death rate in the OECD – but there are still gaps in our pandemic response

    … NZ has now achieved the lowest death rate from the COVID-19 pandemic out of 37 OECD countries and … and sustained elimination (ie, 28+ days of no cases from community transmission). NZ appears to be the only OECD … at this time. Not only did NZ have a very low death rate from COVID-19, it appears that the weekly death rate for all …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: important findings from the 2023-24 New Zealand Health Survey

    … smoking did not decline in Aotearoa, sitting at 6.9% (up from 6.8% in 2022/23). Furthermore, unacceptable disparities … briefing summarises key findings on smoking prevalence from the 2023/24 New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS). The NZHS … decade, daily and current smoking rates failed to decrease from the year prior (absolute increases of 0.1%). In …
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  • NZ’s COVID-19 response compared to selected other jurisdictions: Australia, Taiwan and the United States

    … OECD country data with NZ having the lowest mortality rate from COVID-19 in this grouping [1]. But over the last six … this subject has recently been increased by a false claim from US President Donald Trump that New Zealand “was having a … (as per 22 August; probable and confirmed cases and data from the Worldometer website: …
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  • Money down the drain: The high cost of leaking water pipes

    … the cost of the nearly 20% of reticulated water leaking from pipes is around $122 million per year. Central and local … parks and gardens (including vegetable gardens supplying food). Economic cost : Water treatment and distribution … for example by returning some of the locally generated GST revenue to Councils. 7 In addition, central Government …
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  • And now the Brits are doing it: A sugary drink tax levy on the industry

    … From 1 April 2018, the UK is putting in place a type of … of sugary drinks is much stronger than it is for any food. Second, sugary drink taxes can be configured in many … of – a percentage tax at the point of sale, much like GST.  This has limitations.  John Gibson, an economist from …
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  • Dropping the ball on measles? Aotearoa must close an ‘immunity gap’ to avoid a measles epidemic

    … campaign for all children aged 2-10 years was planned from July, to close the immunity gap identified in that … since 1997). But immunisation coverage has been falling from 2017. In Appendix 1 , we calculate the number of … suggest three urgent actions to prevent a measles epidemic from occurring, while we continue to focus on improving …
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  • Proposals to reduce youth vaping: Important steps but a more comprehensive approach needed

    … permitted. These proposals will help protect young people from aggressive vape marketing, but do they go far enough? In … while protecting young people who have never smoked from vaping uptake. However, will the three measures outlined … eliminate this practice. Nor will it require dairies to remove existing specialist vape stores developed within their …
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  • A public health perspective on taxing harmful products

    … and the environment. In the past, NZ has been smart from a health perspective in using taxes to ensure relatively … income, assets/land, and general goods and services (ie, GST). However, some potential targets for taxation have the … Other potential health-justified taxes Mexico has a “junk food” tax which appears to be working [53, 54] and some …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The bigger picture benefits

    … learners in 998 schools. In addition to published findings from Ka Ora, Ka Ako evaluations, there is ample international … environments, job creation in the community, and increased food system resilience.  In this, the first Briefing in a … While a careful review of the evidence around outcomes from the investment in the Aotearoa NZ programme is required, …
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