This next chapter of 5590+ recognises that individual behaviour change is most successful when systems support it. The WHO estimates that every dollar invested in best buys can return health and economic benefits, saving millions of lives globally by 2030. 8 For New Zealand, this means: • Pairing health-focused education and marketing with enabling environments. • Addressing food affordability and accessibility. FROM INDIVIDUAL CHANGE TO COLLECTIVE IMPACT
• Embedding prevention into workplaces, communities and digital health pathways. • Demonstrating measurable system impact, including potential reductions in hospital admissions and long- term treatment costs through improved diet quality. The next steps are clear: small, sustained actions across society to create measurable population health gains.
8 World Health Organization. (2024). Tackling NCDs: Best buys and other recommended interventions for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (2nd ed.). https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240091078 [who.int]
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