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  • Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream

    … Summary Many communities across Canterbury are facing increasingly … to know, but appears not to be publicly available, is how this increase in dairy cattle is distributed between … District Council schemes servicing approximately 600 people breached the MAV, it was reported a denitrification …
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  • Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options?

    … a replacement for tobacco smoking, will improve the health of the NZ population. The estimated health gain is about the … of modelling is that we can include uncertainty about many key inputs. That is why when we consider all the major … … Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options? …
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  • Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes

    … risks seeing around 5000 New Zealanders continue to die every year from smoking and a persistence of associated … among adolescents. 3   Extensive data from trials with people who smoke provided with VLNCs shows they smoke fewer … 11 Modeling studies suggest denicotinisation would save many life years and avert numerous smoking related deaths. …
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  • Covid-19: A planetary disease

    … market (estimated at around US $23 billion) after drugs, people, and arms smuggling, and hence a reason for the decline of many endangered species. Many of these factors are … Preventing the next pandemic – Zoonotic diseases and how to break the chain of transmission) This blog is a much …
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  • Aotearoa’s perinatal and maternal death rates remain inequitable and unjust

    … decrease in all-cause perinatal mortality over the years of 2006-2021 according to the Perinatal and Maternal … mortality for wāhine Māori, Pacific pregnant women and people and those living in higher deprivation. Some evidence … neonatal deaths (up to 27th day of life), and deaths of people who are pregnant or within 42 days of the end of …
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  • Vaping needs much tighter regulation as we approach Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Two new studies

    … may have on public health. The first estimates that use of modern vaping devices could be around a third as harmful … and health equity [5]. The Discussion Document outlines many important actions, including denicotinisation and … onwards) that compared levels of these biomarkers between people exclusively vaping and those exclusively smoking …
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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 … ie, high blood pressure, high lipid levels etc (eg, some people might prefer dietary counselling to starting on CVD … or cost-effective. (But we have some issues with how these interventions were classified in this review in …
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  • National capacity needed to monitor misinformation to protect public health and social cohesion

    … assess any risks let alone make informed decisions on how to address them.  Misleading information can lead … For instance, during the Covid-19 pandemic, some people ingested toxic substances mistakenly believed to … misinformation wasn’t a direct focus of the proposal, many submissions urged action in this space. The current …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … at two sets of values for decision-making: those informing how we make decisions (see Table 1) and those informing what … … Good decision-making processes … show respect for people and ensure procedural fairness…Where the reasons for … but what is different with a pandemic is that there can be many conflicts between our impulses to protect ourselves – to …
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  • Daily aspirin for preventing cancer and heart disease – where to from here in NZ?

    … gastric bleeding and one type of stroke). But for some people, the relative size of the benefit may still not be … and a more sophisticated one is needed that would consider many other issues (e.g., lower healthcare costs from disease … stages of recruitment for use of a polypill in a trial. How might NZ research funding agencies help? Research funders …
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