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  • Improving NZ Government communication about COVID-19: Five suggestions

    … potential improvements could be made. Potentially the most important of these would be to further depoliticise the COVID-19 response. Overall, … smooth adjustments to border control settings to reduce border failures, and a steady expansion of NZ …
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  • Does healthy food really cost more?

    … There is a perception that healthy food costs more – but does it really? It all depends on how you measure the … at some of the different metrics and suggests that we need to consider several of them to get a better understanding of this important issue.   Monitoring the price of foods allows us to …
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  • Phasing out smoking: The Tobacco-Free Generation policy

    … blog is one of a series examining key aspects of the plan to help inform the debate and submissions. Here we examine … are in this younger age group, TFG is likely to rapidly reduce ethnic smoking disparities. Source: van der Deen … phase out tobacco sales. But in combination with other proposals in the draft Action Plan (e.g. taking the nicotine …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern … declared a PHEIC on 30 January 2020, not at its first, but at its second meeting, two months after searches  for … faster scaling of response is needed. These are positive steps. However, the solution, according to Helen Clark, must …
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  • Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations

    … existing regulation of tobacco and herbal smoking products to vaping products (or electronic nicotine delivery systems … that pose fewer risks. Section 22 recognises the need to reduce social approval of smoking, and discourage use of …
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  • Taxing tobacco in NZ: What we know and what could be next

    … in tobacco consumption per adult (for the period 2010 to 2014) (1). Smoking prevalence has also continued to … major population groups ( as per census data for 2013 ). Youth smoking in particular has continued to decline steeply … are an important means to generate health gain in NZ, reduce health inequalities, and save health costs. …
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  • Carcinogen exposure in Aotearoa workplaces is unacceptably high

    … Carcinogens Survey reveals for the first time the extent to which New Zealanders experience cancer-causing substances … main findings and highlights some urgently needed steps to reduce exposure and improve care. These include better … shifting Government funding priorities. The survey is an important step to improve the collection of data on harmful …
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  • Why we need an Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

    … (CDC) would significantly enhance national capability to address such threats and collaborate with similar global … Infectious Diseases . There are several NZ initiatives and proposals that could contribute to the proposed Centre. MBIE … of pandemics and other major threats. It would be important to support regional health and development goals …
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  • Breaking the inequity loop

    … Summary History shows us that the best way to improve Māori health is to support Māori to lead and drive … not just doctors, nurses and other clinical workforce, but also more Māori epidemiologists, health scientists, … we still fair significantly worse that Pākehā in every important health outcome.  Among other outcomes, Māori are: …
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  • Would a sugary fizzy drink tax reduce health inequalities? Probably Yes

    … advantage in a country where health inequalities remain an important problem. The international evidence (albeit mainly … reduction of salt in processed food or food reformulation to reduce sugar and satur The NZMA in its recent “Tackling …
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