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  • Reducing the health burden from contaminated drinking water in NZ: Opportunities arising from the new Water Services Bill

    … we consider how the new Water Services Bill might provide a framework to enable the new water regulator, Taumata … drinking water. As such, local government policy decisions often defer to the RMA, which in some cases, are in conflict … * Author affiliations: all from Health Environment & Infection Research Unit, Department of Public Health, …
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  • Low-cost heart-healthy bread for NZ

    … to its relatively high cost at NZ$5). All loaves made in a home bread-making machine (Photography: Pascale Otis). This blog reports on a study we just published on optimising the design of bread … to commercially available breads in 15 countries from a heart health perspective, as well as being lower cost. Such …
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  • Tobacco industry interference: Is the new Government meeting its international obligations?

    … in opposing effective tobacco control policies and a long history of attempting to disrupt policies that would … or discussions with tobacco companies  until 2021 , after which it reports 19 engagements with tobacco companies, … no robust evidence to support these claims. 12 If repeated often enough and seeded carefully , these claims may come to …
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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … of Health, which evaluated tobacco excise tax increases as a strategy for achieving the Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal … sector’s Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa Plan (ASAP) launched a year previously [2] . The report strengthens the overwhelming case for implementing a Government-led, comprehensive strategy to achieve the …
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  • That old chestnut again – does any alcohol consumption reduce cardiovascular disease risk? More evidence for “no”.

    … topic at PHE Blog in early 2014 . In the last few weeks a large ‘Mendelian randomisation’ study (like a genetically determined RCT of alcohol consumption – a study design with much potential for identifying causal (as …
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  • Five lessons for Aotearoa NZ from the current COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales

    … but the Greater Sydney region is currently facing a large COVID-19 outbreak, driven by the Delta variant. The … to control the outbreak and the grim situation holds a number of lessons for NZ. On 15 June 2021, a 60-year-old … accelerated so that they have reduced risk of transmitting infection during an outbreak. We probably need more mass …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … actions include upgrading the Alert Level system with a particular focus on mask use, making the Covid Tracer App … to evolve and in several respects we are now experiencing a very different pandemic from that of 2020. The Delta … Level 2 in response to potential widespread exposure to a positive case, a traveller from Sydney who visited a number …
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  • Testing for COVID-19 in NZ to achieve the elimination goal

    … and ensuring wide geographic and demographic coverage. After that, testing to assess the elimination goal could … or as hospital admissions. Additionally, cases may remain undiagnosed through incomplete test sensitivity eg, estimated … assessment centres (CBACs) or directly to hospital, often following advice from Helpline. It seems likely that …
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  • NZ’s Quitline Service is value-for-money: But how does it compare with other tobacco control actions in a league table?

    … We have just published a journal article on the cost-effectiveness of NZ’s Quitline … League Table, and find that whilst the Quitline is a good thing to do, much more health gain is possible through … on past NZ Quitline data and health system costs were from a national dataset linking individual health events to costs. …
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  • Evidence supports a proposed Parliamentary Bill to reduce harm from alcohol sponsorship of sport

    … Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick recently announced a Member’s Bill to end alcohol sponsorship of sport, acting … health equity. Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick recently announced a Member’s Bill to end alcohol sponsorship of sport. The Bill … case for ending alcohol sponsorship of sport and propose a replacement model so that sporting bodies can realise their …
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