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  • Should you swap sugar for artificial sweetener? Maybe not if you’re a mouse, but what if you’re a human?

    … Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’ll be aware that sugar and its negative … sugar circulating in the blood, which in humans at least can lead to the aforementioned undesirable long term health … a more realistic daily dose and a control group, before we can say that artificial sweeteners alter glucose metabolism. …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill proposes introducing a Smokefree Generation (SFG) policy; over time, this policy … proposes three core measures: denicotinisation, a large reduction in the availability of smoked tobacco products, and the introduction of a smokefree generation policy (SFG). 1 Implementing an SFG …
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  • Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

    … This Briefing reports the findings and implications of a study focused on LGBTIQ+ people’s experiences of housing … to also look upstream to explore how the phenomenon can be prevented in the first place. Building on this, recent … potentially also for many other New Zealanders? As a start, the Healthy Homes Standards need better enforcement;  …
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  • Five actions to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, with a focus on Auckland

    … Auckland returns to Covid-19 elimination or transitions to a suppression approach, there are critical actions that can be taken to strengthen pandemic control measures, … and development (R&D) strategy, supported with a fast-start research fund , to support research on these key …
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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 … and propose a replacement model so that sporting bodies can realise their stated purpose to “contribute to the … sponsorship, the levy would need to increase by 2c on a can of beer, 2c on an RTD, 5c on a bottle of wine and 6c to a …
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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … Summary Long COVID is emerging as a global public health concern. Health care workers have a relatively high level of exposure to COVID-19 and an … used for Te Whatu Ora staff with Long COVID in Taranaki. A survey of key stakeholders found that all respondents …
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  • Taxing sugary drinks: Empirical findings out of Mexico

    … Last month the British Medical Journal published a study on the highly anticipated purchasing data examining … would have been based on past trends continuing – not a simple before-after comparison. Therefore the authors … health campaigns introduced in conjunction with a tax can be a valid option from a public health perspective (if …
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  • A Statue of Merit: Dr Margaret Cruickshank and the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … United States. But in this blog we briefly look at a particular New Zealand statue that we think characterises … to involve some memorials to US doctors whose activities can be regarded as unethical . Some New Zealand memorials … (see Appendix). Perhaps therefore these type of objects can contribute to the social capital of a place by providing …
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  • Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”

    … A bit like a letter home. I have now been full-time at the University of … and public health medicine specialist in Victoria, as a person who is new to the State, and not part of the formal … in a fast moving pandemic situation. Moreover, from what I can gauge the Premier and CHO and their teams have mostly …
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  • Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable

    … of increased risk.  When it comes to speed limits, we need a more balanced approach to protect public health and … speeds to which our vehicles are configured that takes a longer-term view of societal, environmental and economic … risk to pedestrians at any given speed, a risk that can only be moderated by lower speeds. 15 For side impacts, …
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