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Health The New Zealand Initiative

WebHealthNew Zealand’s healthcare system is facing critical issues of equity, accessibility and financial sustainability.<br /> <br /> Health funding often focuses on short-term cost …

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The Health of the State The New Zealand Initiative

WebThe Health of the State. 21 April, 2016. Lifestyle regulations assume people do not always act in their best interests. The Health of the State warns against policies designed to protect people from themselves. Some …

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Public Health Priorities The New Zealand Initiative

WebPerhaps Medical Officers of Health are too busy with other priorities to worry about tallying hospital staff vaccination rates. They have important work to do preventing …

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Healthy changes without government The New Zealand Initiative

WebIn this election year, the crisis in New Zealand’s health system stands as one of the nation’s primary concerns. So, on Wednesday, we held our first Health …

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Health, the IDI and evidence-based policy The New …

WebMany New Zealanders are living longer and healthier lives than at any point in history.<br /> <br /> In the last quarter century, health outcomes in New Zealand have improved across the board. Life …

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Public health returns to form The New Zealand Initiative

WebPublic health has form. Saying infectious disease had taken a back seat to lifestyle regulation in the decade leading up to the pandemic would be too charitable. Policy around infectious disease wasn’t in any …

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Media release: New report urges immediate action to tackle GP …

WebWellington (Wednesday, 9 August 2023) – The New Zealand Initiative has released a report, "Lifeline for Health: Meeting New Zealand’s need for General Practitioners," authored by …

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Media release: Government’s claims lack evidence and risk overall

WebWellington (Tuesday, 30 August 2022) – Fiction over fact is the basis for the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) new policies, research by think tank The New Zealand Initiative reveals. …

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A bold health package The New Zealand Initiative

WebIs it okay not to have an instant opinion on the Government’s proposed health shake-up?<br /> <br /> There is no doubt the package, announced by Health …

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Lifeline for Health: Meeting New Zealand’s need for General

WebNew Zealand's general medical practitioners (GPs) are facing a crisis, with a workforce shortage set to worsen over the next decade unless immediate action is taken …

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Research Note: Quantifying the wellbeing costs of Covid-19

WebThis research note takes the 2017 spreadsheet model as given and modifies it only to measure the morbidity and mortality rates indicated for Covid-19 in the papers. …

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Pharmac: The right prescription

WebPharmac’s current 100% subsidy policy and the Ministry of Health’s policy of limiting the standard prescription charge to $5 heightens the concern. The system creates …

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Public health warnings for public health advice The New Zealand

WebPublic health warnings for public health advice. We all have our strange little hobbies. I keep an eye out for mentions of a shonky old estimate on the social cost of …

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The health of the state The New Zealand Initiative

WebChef and television personality Jamie Oliver was a major proponent of a sugar tax in the UK.<br /> <br /> You would think, then, that a sugar tax would be a real …

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Are compact cities better for your health

WebClearly, New Zealand needs a viable plan in order to deal with its urban problems, especially housing affordability and congestion.<br /> <br /> But whether …

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Poor Māori health attributed more to socio-economic factors than …

WebClaims the Government can't back up claims systemic racism is to blame for poor Māori health outcomes.<br /> <br /> Think tank the New Zealand Initiative's, latest …

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The United States health system: Symptoms versus real problem

WebSeveral countries around the world, including the United Kingdom and now New Zealand, are trying to introduce elements of competition into their publicly-financed health care …

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Des Gorman The New Zealand Initiative

WebWellington (Wednesday, 9 August 2023) – The New Zealand Initiative has released a report, "Lifeline for Health: Meeting New Zealand’s need for General …

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Reports & Media The New Zealand Initiative

WebChina’s bullyboy tactics set to backfire with Wellington. Chinese Ambassador Wang Xiaolong’s speech at the China Business Summit 2024 in Auckland on Monday was, at …

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The Platform: Dr Eric Crampton talks to Sean Plunket about the

WebSean Plunket talks to Dr Eric Crampton about his latest Newsroom article about the potential consequences of NZ's Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill. Watch …

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Waitangi, Morality and Reality The New Zealand Initiative

WebKenneth Minogue. New Zealand Business Roundtable. 1 April, 1998. Waitangi, Morality and Reality aims to set the work of the Waitangi Tribunal, along with wider …

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Minister of Education Hon Erica Stanford mentions Dr Michael …

WebMinister of Education Hon Erica Stanford talks about Dr Michael Johnston and the newly formed Ministerial Advisory Group to review education curriculum and the …

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