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  • Is Euthanasia a health priority for New Zealand at present?

    … to implement some of the findings of the Simpson review on health system reform. Arguably more suffering would be … all the practitioners who are prepared to provide services under the Act and providing and promulgating standards of … policies addressing how they will respond to requests for medical assistance in dying. Given the strength of feeling …
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  • Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream

    … of nitrate pollution in the region. Furthermore the area under irrigation, also linked to increased nitrate pollution, … is a “legacy issue”. However, drawing together information on cattle numbers, irrigation, current state of drinking … unit for the scheme could cost an additional $500,000 to $750,000 plus ongoing operating costs. 17 Private …
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  • Why do so many fear the bicycle?

    … is the reason given most commonly for not riding a bike on the road in New Zealand. In this blog, I summarise a paper … in. For example, riding a bike to a rugby game is roughly 500 times safer than playing the game. I conclude by … than a 100 times less than the risk of snow sports, and 500 times safer than playing rugby (see Figure 1, which uses …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning

    … by the Government have never sought to evaluate impact on school achievement. In the absence of direct impact … that the Ka Ora, Ka Ako school lunch programme was under review, with Associate Minister of Education David … school achievement. What’s new in this briefing? We report high rates of food poverty for 15-year-old Māori …
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  • Targeting a new generation – time for a greater focus on smoking uptake prevention?

    … about how to achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa often focus on how to increase successful quitting among current smokers. … Despite the high tobacco tax levels, the expenditure on services to assist smokers to quit is only a tiny fraction … in the US to sell a tobacco product to a person aged under 21 years. Other measures that may reduce uptake by …
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  • To ensure success of the trans-Tasman travel “green zone”, we need to reduce system failures at the NZ border

    … failures resulted in Auckland moving to Alert Level 3 on three occasions and the rest of the country to Alert Level 2 on two occasions. The economic costs of these failures have … This was a rare situation where part of the investigation report was made available to the media [18]. Returnee-related …
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  • Potential new regulatory options for e-cigarettes/ANDS in NZ

    … to ANDS (5). The published scientific literature on ANDS is now vast. For example, 128 review articles in … as not being a medicine and is therefore now clearly not under Medsafe jurisdiction (18)). At the same time the SFE … only) but with regular upgrades to quality New regulations under the SFE Act could allow for the quality standards for …
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  • Health-related food taxes and subsidies: A critique of opposition arguments

    … to potential harms, lack of efficacy, and incursion on personal freedoms. In this blog, we briefly analyse 8 … Recent reports from economic think tanks such as Credit Suisse and the McKinsey Global Institute support such … in Australia also favoured a SSB tax (17). Both the NZ Medical Association and the Heart Foundation support SSB …
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  • What is happening with vaping among adolescents and young adults in Aotearoa?

    … New Zealand (NZ). This briefing collates the latest data on the prevalence, trends and patterns of vaping and smoking …   . Figures 1,2 and 5 are reproduced from a recent report by ASH New Zealand, 1 figures 3, 6 and 7 are from a … (20,000-30,000) Year 10 students, with low decile schools under-represented in 2022. 18   Since 2015 it has included …
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  • More courage needed from our political parties—reviewing our election series

    … voters need to know where political parties stand on issues that impact the health and wellbeing of our … considering commercial interests . The National Party , under its agricultural policy, would remove or minimise a … Among highlighting other weaknesses in the standards, its report read, “expert panel and submitters were adamant that …
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