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Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes
… health benefit of denicotinising cigarettes is likely to be profound. Repealing this measure risks seeing around 5000 … content and delivery. 2 The nicotine in tobacco can be greatly reduced (e.g. by chemical extraction or gene … 24 Supply of and demand for illicit cigarettes can be mitigated The tobacco industry, echoed by the NZ Prime …
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The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate
… to tobacco, and breaches of the TPP might, in principle, be alleged in relation to tobacco. The TPP provides … the TPP allows disputes about tobacco control measures to be pursued by means other than ISDS – that is, by states … than investors. The devil in the detail The TPP must be read as a whole to understand its obligations and their …
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Update on Long-COVID
… Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Long-COVID may be unique in the annals of medicine inasmuch as it was first … each other on Twitter. What is Long-COVID? That proves to be a question without an easy answer. When we first discussed … agreement about typology. The simplest classification may be that of Sudre et al 9 who noted two broad patterns — those …
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New Zealand doing okay in cancer survival: Results from the largest ever cross-national comparison of cancer survival
… leukaemia. Likewise Sweden and the USA. Third, it may be surprising how well South Korea is doing. This is … early detection and treatment in Asia. There may also be some differences in type of stomach cancer compared with … the outcome is unchanged, the survival time will appear to be longer. For example, widespread uptake of PSA screening …
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Seven decades of severe weather events in Aotearoa New Zealand: What are the human health impacts?
… The impacts of extreme climate events on human health can be severe, including deaths, illness, and injuries from … injury or death (Figure 2). While there appeared to be a drop in severe events during the 2010s, compared to the … Catalogue in the 2010s decade. Overall trends may also be influenced by changes in media reporting over time (eg, …
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Walking and cycling for transport is good for physical activity levels in Kiwis!
… Health physical activity guidelines, which should really be considered a bare minimum for health (see Figure 1). In … of specific activity (e.g. going to a gym) that needs to be squeezed into already busy lives. So it is hardly … accompanied by walking trips at each end) is thought to be one of the most effective ways to create enduring …
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Evidence supports a proposed Parliamentary Bill to reduce harm from alcohol sponsorship of sport
… replacement models already exist and could easily be implemented to support sporting organisations to … have high strong and emotional engagement is suggested to be more effective than regular advertising. 13 Sports … visually) of the alcohol advertiser’s name/brand/logo must be done so in a subordinate manner (as a guide, no more than …
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How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?
… hard to answer. Why? Because of what would generally be termed “correlation is not causation” and “it is … over time. Further, this ‘percentage mediation’ will be greater than 46% – perhaps two-thirds or so – as even … will explain all of the ethnic inequalities; there will be pathways from ethnicity to health that do not go through …
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Flooding, public health – and the need for more emphasis on prevention
… post considers these issues, and suggests that there may be scope for further preventive action by central and local … injury burden (including non-fatal injuries) is likely to be higher. Flooding events are also likely to have mental … though any subsequent burden of enteric diseases can be difficult to detect with current surveillance systems …
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E-bikes are the new cars- why don’t transport policy makers treat them seriously?
… e-bikes. Then we look at policy in this area, what could be achieved, what the barriers are and where policy is at … understanding of how e-biking can contribute to this would be useful. E-bikes are associated with injuries, particularly in older riders , who may be using e-bikes to extend their riding life. More work needs …
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