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  • Low-cost heart-healthy bread for NZ

    … just published on optimising the design of bread for heart health. Using linear programming we found it possible to … commercially available breads in 15 countries from a heart health perspective, as well as being lower cost. Such bread designs could be promoted by health agencies and utilised in conjunction with a …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … for decades Myriad organisations had called for increased health security funding The world ignored all these warnings … circulated and all the States Parties to the International Health Regulations had committed to implementing them (few … all the harm. Escaping black elephants By definition, information about black elephants is widely understood. To …
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  • Smokefree cars legislation: Should the new government make this a priority?

    … This would demonstrate their commitment to children’s health and well-being, respond to public and smoker opinion, … fit with the research evidence favouring legislation for health reasons.   The new government has many problems to address. Years of minimal legislation for population health means that the legislative calendar will be packed …
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  • The need for long-term thinking – Especially for preventing catastrophic risks

    … thinking leads to the neglect of multiple public health problems particularly long-term disease prevention and mounting environmental health concerns where the burden falls on those living in … a form of the recently enacted Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act in the US. Reform the NZ Parliamentary system …
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  • That old chestnut again – does any alcohol consumption reduce cardiovascular disease risk? More evidence for “no”.

    … consumption increases CVD. If true, this means the overall health harm from alcohol consumption in our society is even … That is, this study did not find evidence of a J-shaped association of alcohol with CVD – rather, each additional … it is probably not scientifically appropriate for public health practitioners, policy makers, and the media to …
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  • Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected

    … and don’t always improve economic productivity. The health impacts of raising speed limits are likely to be … of the Road to Zero strategy and was done through speed management plans . The current government is proposing to … th . So what impacts might this change have on population health and wellbeing?  Deaths and serious injuries   In 2023, …
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  • Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”

    … of Otago, Wellington. Indeed, I set up this very Public Health Expert Blog with Nick Wilson ten years ago. Now I am … correspondent. Life as an epidemiologist and public health medicine specialist in Victoria, as a person who is … – without privilege to the inner workings on COVID-19 management. Image by  TUBS / CC BY-SA Australia now has a …
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  • Media release: Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023

    … for almost a third of Aotearoa New Zealand’s preventable health burden, yet a new survey out shows political parties … about their level of support for 12 priority policies that Health Aotearoa Coalition (HCA) expert panels identified will make a difference to health outcomes. These policies are outlined in HCA’s …
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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … variant outbreak of Covid-19 in NZ by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. This work suggests that in an … we look at the results of modelling by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of … estimates in the light of the following: There is no information on differential health impacts by ethnicity or …
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  • Long COVID: a crucial reason for vax, mask, and distance

    … or after COVID-19. A society wanting to minimise the health and cost burden of managing long COVID would therefore … Care Excellence (NICE) has produced a Rapid Guideline on management 19 , little had been written clearly on the kinds … show that kidney damage occurs early and in temporal association with respiratory failure, is associated with a …
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