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  • Artificially sweetened beverages: What does the latest evidence tell us on health benefits versus harm?

    … (ASBs). But there are multiple concerns about potential health risks of ASBs – although limited evidence and hard … summarise current evidence, to inform the public, public health practitioners and policy makers. In NZ there are … confounded by other lifestyle factors also associated with health and disease). Imamura et al (2016) noted that …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand's fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care

    … deaths. This new wave of infection is an opportunity for health authorities to remind New Zealanders about the … we present surveillance data provided by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Institute for Environmental Science and … – Masks are still required for most visitors to health care, aged care, and disability care facilities. They would …
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  • Watch this space – The Public Health Communication Centre launches soon

    … ( The Briefing is rebranded from the successful Public Health Expert Blog which has run for over a decade.) The Briefing is public health expert commentary and analysis. We unpack some of the big public health issues facing our country, detail what the research is …
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  • Keeping public health on the agenda for the new government

    … Summary The Public Health Expert Briefing will be highlighting evidence-informed public health solutions in a new series: Briefings to the Incoming … and new areas of focus. What doesn’t change are the health and sustainability challenges we face as a country. …
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  • Digesting things further: High dietary salt intakes are almost certainly problematic

    … We recently did a blog post on dietary salt and health , particularly with regard to a new large prospective … the totality of the available evidence is sufficient for health authorities to continue taking a range of … to the overall evidence around salt being harmful to health – and undoubtedly so at high levels. Additionally, our …
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  • World Ventil8 Day – How do our buildings measure up?

    … importance of ventilation as a crucial part of enabling health and wellbeing. Breathing clean air is so often ignored … day indoors, the air we breathe has a direct impact on our health and wellbeing. As well as having indoor sources of … symptoms, cancers, and premature death. 2 The World Health Organization (WHO) states that poor indoor air …
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  • Intensifying Covid-19 Control Measures: 5 Measures for Faster Elimination and 5 Measures to Prevent Future outbreaks

    … Covid-19 outbreak in Auckland still poses risks to health, social wellbeing and the economy. There is a need for … priority populations (as recently argued for by a Māori health leader [4]). 3. Consider further reducing essential … employers involved. The recently revised Auckland District Health Board policy reducing visitor numbers to their …
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  • Limiting the size of single serve sugary drinks: New NZ study on health and cost impacts

    … Through these two mechanisms we predicted the resulting health gains in quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) and health system costs over the remaining life course of the NZ … NZ population level it was estimated to generate a total health gain of 82,100 QALYs (95% uncertainty interval [UI]: …
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  • Food taxes and subsidies will probably protect health & reduce inequalities – but the devil is in the detail

    … among socially disadvantaged groups with worse diets and health to start with. But the proof is in the pudding, which in this case is the health and economic modelling to see what effect taxes and … international models show little if any improvement in health from subsidies on fruit and vegetables, because …
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  • Tobacco industry interference: Is the new Government meeting its international obligations?

    … smokefree legislation. Ratified by Aotearoa, the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control … and implementation of new policies. 2, 7, 8 The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Framework Convention … side of tobacco related criminal activity is the ongoing stream of violent robberies and assaults of which ‘ram raids’ …
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