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  • Calculating cardiovascular risk with online calculators – scope for improvement?

    … with a large number of online calculators – including a NZ-specific calculator that has been available for some years … online CVD risk calculator has been designed for the NZ setting (with epidemiological input from one of us: … cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk calculator designed for NZ: “Know Your Numbers” (NZ) …
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  • BMI keeps on going up – and reflections on the Diabesity Symposium

    … Is body mass index (BMI) relentlessly increasing in NZ, or plateauing? In this blog we present trends in BMI by ethnicity in NZ going back to the 1980s. Over the last four decades the … below. Figure 1: Average adult BMI by sex by ethnicity in NZ (LINZ =Life in NZ Survey; NNS = National Nutrition Survey; …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … high blood pressure, and lack of physical activity.  In NZ, the potential for prevention is even greater, especially … with poverty and social disadvantage. Dementia in Aotearoa NZ, disproportionately affects Māori and Pacific peoples Age … ageing, the number of people with dementia in Aotearoa NZ (NZ) is expected to double in the next 20 years (Figure …
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  • A National risks assessment should include pandemics and other global catastrophes

    … The Draft NZ National Security Long-term Insights Briefing (LTIB) has recently been produced by the NZ Government. In this blog we discuss its merits and how the … climate change, and catastrophic pandemics). The Draft NZ National Security Long-term Insights Briefing (LTIB) has …
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  • Food poverty for NZ teens creating an achievement lag of up to four years

    … Achievement (PISA) 2022 results show Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) students’ maths, science and reading proficiency levels … the PISA study included measures of food poverty, with NZ ranking second worst in the OECD for number of students … the biggest increase in food insecurity for children in NZ in a decade observed in 2022/23, we need more measures to …
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  • What public health lessons can NZ still learn from the United States?

    … governments provide a wealth of potential lessons that NZ could learn from. In this blog we briefly consider some of … public health areas. Here we look at some of these that NZ could potentially consider learning from in some form. … Various US jurisdictions seem to be more advanced than NZ in terms of: Adopting soft drink taxes which are now in …
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  • “Action for Healthy Waterways”: some big ticket actions that the Government has neglected

    … The NZ Ministry for the Environment has produced a valuable … health and cultural impacts for people in Aotearoa/NZ [1]. Fortunately, the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) … good ideas around protecting and improving the health of NZ’s waterways. In particular, the overarching concept of Te …
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  • Junk food and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Likely to produce numerous benefits in NZ

    … on unhealthy foods and beverages in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) will lead to health gains, health system cost-savings, … and GHG emissions as if they had been implemented in NZ. Table 1 . Details of tax packages selected for inclusion What level of benefits does the new NZ modelling show? Our recent modelling work indicated that …
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  • After the new law for smokefree cars for Kiwi kids, what next?

    … kills, 2 30 years since the first smokefree places law in NZ, 14 years after the first Australian state announced it … smokefree cars for children, 3 13 years since a survey of NZ smokers showing high support for smokefree cars with children. 4 Only now do we get a NZ law for protecting the most vulnerable, in the most …
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  • The case for denicotinising tobacco in Aotearoa NZ remains strong: response to online critique

    … when implemented in the Aotearoa/New Zealand (A/NZ) context.   In April 2021, the A/NZ Government published a discussion document for … in a peer-reviewed journal in January 2022. 1 The A/NZ Ministry of Health commissioned a more sophisticated …
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