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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … results are highly variable but all suggest lower levels of risk to vapers relative to tobacco smokers. Yet as the situation with vaping is very dynamic (new products, changing ways people … vape) and there is no evidence yet about long-term effects of e-cigarette use on health outcomes, a lot more future …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques

    … the recommended measures. This blog addresses critiques of the Plan; it discusses the potential role e-cigarettes … to either quit or to transition fully from smoking to vaping. Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 is a world-leading … tobacco-control goal with origins in the vision of Māori leaders for a Tupeka Kore (tobacco-free) Aotearoa, …
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  • Five key reasons why NZ should have an official inquiry into the response to the COVID-19 pandemic

    … also identify lessons for the organisation and resourcing of public health more broadly. Fortunately, NZ has a fairly solid track record of official inquiries that have resulted in improved systems … virus that causes COVID-19. It ultimately sustained one of the lowest mortality rates from COVID-19 in the OECD (just …
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  • Will the Health Star Rating labels improve people’s diets?

    … labelling is one tool to help control the epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Everyone agrees that on its own, the … Panel (NIP) used in NZ does not achieve the goal of facilitating healthier food choices. But suggestions around more consumer-friendly front-of-pack labels have been fiercely contested by industry and …
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  • A 100 years ago: The worst year of the First World War for New Zealand

    … The year 1917 was the worst year of the First World War for New Zealand from a premature … presented on this topic at a Symposium at Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) and in this blog we … we described. We also consider to what extent some of these deaths may have been preventable with knowledge …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Addressing Māori health inequity

    … Summary We look at questions of Māori health equity in the fourth in the series “Where do … Communication Centre survey need to be seen in the context of the legislation, the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022, … inadequate access to health services, poorer quality of care, and a failure of health services to improve outcomes …
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  • Reducing the risk of Covid-19 transmission through the use of air purifiers

    … Indoor environments increase the risk of transmission for the virus that causes Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) by containment and concentration of the airborne virus. However, to reduce such transmission, … as an additional preventative measure to reduce the number of virus-laden particles. Ventilation and purification of …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … smoking and quitting, support for, and perceived impacts of, key measures included in the Smokefree 2025 Action Plan Discussion Document , and data on use of illicit tobacco products. Introduction and methods The NZ … would quit entirely and 13% thought they would switch to vaping. Another 20% believed they would cut down on their …
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  • Money down the drain: The high cost of leaking water pipes

    … Summary Access to clean drinking water is one of the most fundamental components of good public health. Leaking water infrastructure poses a … in Aotearoa New Zealand, we calculate the median price of water charged to households is $2.13 per cubic meter. …
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  • Preventing outbreaks of COVID-19 in NZ associated with air travel from Australia: New Modelling study of alternatives to quarantine

    … In this new study, we estimated the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks associated with air travel from Australia (with a low prevalence of COVID-19 infection) to NZ. We found that the combined use of exit and entry screening, two PCR tests (on days 3 and 12 …
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