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  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … Summary The Government recently halved the excise tax on heated tobacco products. Associate Health … tobacco products as smoking cessation tools. Nor does the evidence support assertions that the population of people …
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  • Covid-19: A planetary disease

    … Louise Delany* This blog focuses on the underlying environmental causes of Covid-19 (Covid) and the role of international law in tackling both Covid and … is a planetary disease and we humans are its cause: ‘The animals who infected us did not come to us; we went to …
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  • Communicating public health evidence – a successful first year for the PHCC

    … Summary It has been a year since the launch of the Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC) and the new-look Public Health Expert Briefing . In this article …
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  • Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: Five key ways to reduce the massive health and social costs

    … A new study has estimated the surprisingly high level of harm from air pollution. This annual harm includes the premature deaths of more than 3300 adult New Zealanders … admissions for respiratory illness and heart disease. The annual social costs resulting from this pollution was …
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  • Public health and Budget 2024

    … and law and order, shrinking relative to GDP over the next three years.  Public health, which requires … to prevent future health issues, faces challenges due to the budget’s short-term focus.  Public health professionals … limited funding and increase public understanding of the value of long-term health investments. Despite the …
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  • New modelling on the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in NZ associated with arriving travellers

    … detailed our just published modelling work on estimating the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks associated with air travel to NZ. We find that the risks are typically very low for travel from Australia (a … zone” country like Japan or a “red zone” country as per the US during 2020) where rigorous border controls including …
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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … this week, teaching epidemiological methods to improve the quality and causal inference of our research – more of that below.  During the week, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) broadcast a …
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  • Covid-19 is finishing the year on a high: We need a vigorous coordinated response

    … by results of wastewater testing and hospitalisations. The net effect is that for the year 2023 as a whole, we can expect to see approximately … large waves of Covid-19 infection is a wake-up call for the NZ Government about the importance of a vigorous national …
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  • National capacity needed to monitor misinformation to protect public health and social cohesion

    … or misleading information—poses a significant threat to the health of our communities. It can lead to poor health … such as disaster responses.  In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), the scope of this threat is not well understood. Currently, we have limited insight into the types of health misinformation circulating and its …
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  • Low-cost heart-healthy bread for NZ

    …   Figure 1: The loaf of the left is the optimised HHB$1.5 loaf. The loaf in the middle is the optimised HHB$3 loaf which is …
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