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  • Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?

    … reviews) on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of dietary counselling as a health intervention. Most studies … necessitating close attention to cost-effectiveness of these interventions relative to more structural changes to … by Patnode et al published in 2017 included 88 trials of diet and/or physical activity counselling [2]. In terms of …
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  • What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes and public health

    … discussion document from the Pacific and explores some of the reasons SSB tax outcomes from Mexico appear to show … added caloric sweetener usually sugar. The main categories of sugary drinks include soft-drinks/fizzy-drinks, sachet … Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) account for many of the highest rates of obesity and diabetes in the world. …
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  • Tax reform pros & cons: A brief look from a Public Health perspective

    … health perspective. Many factors determine the design of tax policies in developed countries. These include perspectives concerning the level of government spending, how important goals such as health, well-being or the state of the environment really are, the extent to which the system …
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  • Key findings on smoking and e-cigarette use prevalence and trends in the 2020/21 NZ Health Survey

    … (EC) use from a nationally representative sample of 9709 adults aged 15 years and over between September 2020 and August 2021. Full details of the methods are available on the Ministry of Health … NZHS does not collect data on nicotine content or type of vaping device used, this is not a hypothesis that can be …
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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … Summary Cabinet has approved in principle the sale of oral tobacco products (e.g. snus) and oral nicotine … help people to stop smoking by providing a source of nicotine that is likely to be less physically harmful than … aids is limited, especially when compared with the quality of evidence supporting the use and efficacy of …
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  • Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?

    … discuss the proposed regulatory changes and explain some of the complex practices smokers must adopt when commencing vaping. We suggest limiting supply of nicotine e-cigarettes to specialist vape stores and …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … But to do so means understanding the maths and ethics of both these strategies. In this blog we adapt our work for … ratcheting up its control measures to deal with the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in our view at least, there is … piece published in The Conversation by Prof John Daley of the Grattan Institute, he argues that there is a need in …
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  • Severe weather events linked to outbreaks of crypto in Aotearoa – New study

    … into the link between severe weather events and clusters of the gastrointestinal disease cryptosporidiosis in Aotearoa … rainfall or flooding may play a role in the development of some outbreaks of this infectious disease. This finding is consistent with …
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  • Digesting things further: High dietary salt intakes are almost certainly problematic

    … concerns regarding other aspects). Here we update some of our thinking and conclude that the totality of the available evidence is sufficient for health authorities to continue taking a range of evidence-based actions to reduce the hazard of high salt …
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  • Establishing Long COVID services in Aotearoa NZ – what can we learn from overseas?

    … key components and considerations for the development of high quality and culturally appropriate LC services in … SARS-CoV-2 infection, usually three months from the onset of COVID-19 and lasting for at least two months. 1 The most … symptoms include fatigue, headaches, cough, shortness of breath, anosmia (loss of the sense of smell), sore throat, …
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