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  • Period Drama: How to Address Period Poverty in Aotearoa

    … Having periods can be bloody hard work, but for some people they p resent additional difficulties because products … but what more can be done?   What is Period Poverty?   Many people experience periods as a mundane, if at times … Wellington. Email: Claire.Marsh@vuw.ac.nz … Period Drama: How to Address Period Poverty in Aotearoa …
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  • How might NZ expand community water fluoridation?

    … The recently published Report on the safety of water fluoridation (Royal Society of NZ & the Office of … children and adults, could be prevented by expanding CWF. How could community water fluoridation be expanded further in … it as a default option (in all water supplies of 1000+ people). The exceptions could be unless a referendum in the …
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  • The Pros and Cons of a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: The Case is Overwhelmingly Pro for NZ

    … Māori Affairs Select Committee and in 2011, the Government of the day adopted it as a national target to achieve minimal … of around two extra years of healthy life among 600,000 people. Due to differences in susceptibility to … interventions. A detailed action plan setting out how the goal could be achieved – “Achieving Smokefree …
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  • NZ’s long-running Campylobacter epidemic from poultry: Now with antibiotic resistance

    … with information about Campylobacter contamination and how to reduce the risk; and (iv) encourage consumers to … of Campylobacter contaminated poultry would be one of many important steps that NZ could take. The large persisting … around the kitchen by splashing [ 15 ]. But as many people don’t read food labels and have limited cooking …
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  • Regulating vaping and new nicotine products: Are tobacco companies’ goals aligned with public health objectives?

    … 2025 researchers summarised the strengths and limitations of the Bill, and concluded that it contained several … yet could do more to protect the health of children, young people and non-nicotine users. This blog – intended as a … to investors and analysts.[1,2]  The content illustrates how BAT, at least, sees NGPs as an expanding market and a …
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  • It’s been 3 years since COVID entered New Zealand – here are 3 ways to improve our response

    … exceptionally low mortality during the first three years of the pandemic. However, widespread circulation of Covid-19 … appears to be driving an increase in excess mortality in many countries. Covid-19 is not influenza where symptomatic … years apart . 9 With Covid-19, reinfections are common and each carries a risk of illness, hospitalisation, death, and …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … supported by health researchers, we know little about how young people – those targeted by the SFG policy – perceive it. In … by removing its status as a “rite of passage”. 6 For many decades, tobacco companies framed smoking as a symbol of …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … with vaping is very dynamic (new products, changing ways people vape) and there is no evidence yet about long-term … of e-cigarette products in the international market. How vapers actually use these products is also a likely … longer inhalations than do smokers (eg, 1-4). Further, many models of vaporisers have adjustable features such as …
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  • Why do so many fear the bicycle?

    … bike is shunted, literally, to the side of the road), and how this might be changed.   “It is too dangerous” is the … ride, a game of rugby, half a day on the snow) There are many assumptions and approximations in these results, so they … than either cars or bikes (Shaw et al 2016), yet few people are put off walking by fear of traffic crash injury. …
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  • Why a “mouth and nose” lockdown with masks might help avoid a “full body” lockdown at home

    … The concepts of an Alert Level system, household “bubbles”, and social … outbreak at a choir in Seattle involved 52 out of 61 people being infected from a single case [1]. Air currents … animated spaces…Wherever and whenever people are up in each other’s faces, laughing, shouting, cheering, sobbing, …
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