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  • “Action for Healthy Waterways”: some big ticket actions that the Government has neglected

    … the health of waterways in New Zealand. But there are important gaps. In this blog we consider three big ticket … tax level (eg, nitrogen focused fertiliser taxes are more common in Europe in general, but in Denmark the phosphorus in … can be part of an effective policy mix to solve nitrogen problems”. Modelling studies also suggest benefits, as per …
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  • Lime E-Scooters – Avoiding a collision course with public health?

    … potential end-users. But will shared transport respond to problems such as congestion and environmental damage caused … benefits to cities and their citizens, but how valid are these assertions? Potential gains – reduced traffic … doing so.  Given New Zealand’s high obesity levels and what has been described as a looming tsunami of Type 2 …
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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?

    … cost-effectiveness of NZ’s Quitline service (including its associated promotion in the mass media). The study found that … discounted QALYs and NZ$ 1.10 billion in cost-savings. We are fairly confident in these results as the net cost-saving … (QALYs gained on x-axis, at 3% discounting) But what if the Government doesn’t use endgame strategies? While …
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  • How taking an evidence-informed approach can be used to prioritise interventions: The example of cardiovascular disease

    … Summary New governments are fortunate in being able to use modern techniques to help … has also highlighted the relevance of prioritising CVD. 6 What we did Firstly: Identifying high priority risk factors … in a peer-reviewed journal: Wilson et al 2023. 7 The most common risk factors for death and disability due to CVD were: …
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  • The alarms are flashing red: Five reasons to upgrade our Alert Level system before the next Covid-positive traveller visits a major city

    … landscape is changing and the system needs to change with it to keep NZ ahead of the pandemic.  In this blog we … partner who was travelling with them, and NZ was spared what might have been a series of super-spreading episodes … warning signals about gaps in our pandemic response. Here are five reasons we need to upgrade our Alert Level system …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Taxes to protect health and reduce inequity

    … tax reductions for low-income citizens of Aotearoa NZ are being proposed by two parties ( Te Pāti Māori and the … Centre contacted each of the five major parties with a set of questions about their position on five areas … 20 and the effectiveness of fertiliser taxes. 21-23 What this Briefing adds This political party survey found …
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  • Is youth vaping a problem in New Zealand?

    … have been interpreted as suggesting few young people who are non-smokers are vaping. How can these apparently … if they were never smokers when they first vaped, and to what degree these adolescents graduated to smoking as a … uptake, after allowing for factors that may represent a common liability. Finally, we must ensure our surveys use …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 2)

    … Dr Caroline Shaw and Associate Professor Diana Sarfati What do we do with the conflicting information on breast … about breast cancer screening is difficult. There are highly experienced and knowledgeable screening experts on … internationally. This was screening for neuroblastoma (a common cancer in childhood), which did not (as far as we are …
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  • Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?

    … Looking at Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred out by Google’s … Street View (GSV) for research is becoming increasingly common, as per a recent review [1]. But in our just published … GSV seems to be rapidly growing – but a few other examples are as follows: Urban measures of “neighborhood physical …
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  • Potential new regulatory options for e-cigarettes/ANDS in NZ

    … systems (ANDS) is highly dynamic and rapidly evolving (with numerous different product types (1) including … during the 2012-14 period (4). Increasingly, there are advertisements for ANDS in this country (e.g., a radio … standards or similar (which will come with its own set of problems). Some participants in the ANDS domain have …
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