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  • Health co-benefits need to be adequately considered in the Climate Change Commission’s final advice

    … the Commission has excluded these health co-benefits from its economic analyses, which currently predict a … potentially result in net long-term savings to society from responding to climate change.   The Climate Change … which could well result in net savings to society from responding to climate change. In this blog, we: 1) …
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  • Lessons from Canada for NZ: Carbon, Cycling, Tobacco, Nutrition and Cannabis

    … cycling; (iii) tobacco control; (iv) controls on food marketing directed at children; (v) healthy food … 7.2%, and we have a national average of only 2.5% (albeit from a 2009 study [8]). Canada’s most “bikeable” cities have … whole grains, and protein foods Choose proteins that come from plants more often When you can, consume unsaturated fats …
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  • Australia’s Quarantine Systems Failures: Lessons for NZ

    … transmission of COVID-19, albeit with occasional outbreaks from imported cases. Both countries have primarily used … border control. In this blog we consider potential lessons from Australia’s 17 quarantine systems failures for NZ.   … This definition included people infected in hospital from cases who had been transferred from a quarantine …
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  • NZ’s long-running Campylobacter epidemic from poultry: Now with antibiotic resistance

    … resistance in these Campylobacter infections acquired from locally produced poultry. In this blog we briefly detail … NZ has a long-term problem with Campylobacter infection from contaminated fresh chicken meat [ 1 ]. In addition, … the problem. A risk to NZ’s international reputation as a food exporter NZ is known as the “Campylobacter capital of …
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  • Rodents running riot in supermarkets – do we need to worry?

    … – these pests should indeed be completely excluded from retail outlets. But this Briefing also considers the … scans the wide variety of other health-relevant problems from rodents (eg, damage to food, damage to insulation, damage to water piping, impact on …
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  • What does the 2019/20 NZ Health Survey tell us about progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa?

    … an analysis of 10 key points about smoking and vaping from the 2018-19 NZ Health Survey (NZHS). Here we update that … adults aged > 15 years in surveys in 2006/7 and each year from 2011/12 to 2019/20. There are important caveats to the … can result in figures varying quite substantially from one year to the next, particularly for sub-group …
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  • Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them?

    … during pregnancy. NZ could get better public health value from these vaccines by: Continuing to ensure vaccines are … (NZ) and strategies to achieve optimal health benefits from this component of prevention. A future Briefing will … Figure 1. Covid-19 hospitalisations in NZ, weekly total, from January 2021 to July 2024.    Covid vaccines continue to …
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  • Protecting children and young people from unethical junk food marketing: Upgrading the advertising codes

    … important ways that the Children’s Code for Advertising Food could be substantially improved to protect children and young people from obesity and poor oral health. Although public health … New Zealand, have a responsibility to protect children from all forms of exploitation. At the very least, although …
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  • Food taxes and subsidies will probably protect health & reduce inequalities – but the devil is in the detail

    … we lead have published two papers in the last few weeks on food taxes and subsidies – both of which depend on what are … including taxes and subsidies on food. In the first paper from the SPEND Project , we found that across 20-odd food … findings you look at. This is where our second paper , from the BODE 3 Programme , comes in.  Basically, modelling …
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  • Daily nicotine use increases among youth in Aotearoa NZ: The 2021 Snapshot Y10 Survey

    … Recently, ASH New Zealand released findings from the 2021 Snapshot Year 10 survey , a large … has been conducted annually for more than 20 years (apart from 2020, when COVID-19 prevented data collection). Each … peer-reviewed publications, informed policies ranging from plain packaging to smoke-free cars,[1, 2] and provided …
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