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  • Low-cost heart-healthy bread for NZ

    …   Figure 1: The loaf of the left is the optimised HHB$1.5 loaf. The loaf in the … versions of low-cost heart-healthy breads (HHBs). What did we find? In our study, just published in the journal … tube defects in infants (especially relevant to NZ which does not require flour to be supplemented routinely). …
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  • Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023

    … Summary The results of a Health Coalition Aotearoa survey of political parties on the priority prevention for tobacco, … on progress in prevention against health-harm products. What is new in this Briefing The strong political ideology …
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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 … from its plans to weaken protections for water.  What this Briefing adds We report on our just published study …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could making tobacco products available only through community pharmacies help us get there?

    … In this blog we discuss the arguments for and against one of the proposals included in the Smokefree 2025 Action Plan Discussion Document that the sale of smoked tobacco products could be restricted solely to … are made available through community pharmacies. So what are the potential advantages and disadvantages of such …
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  • The smokefree policies of political parties: Do they care about people who smoke?

    … In this time of Covid-19, helping people who smoke to quit their addiction … be smokefree would also increase the discretionary income of many of those most affected by the Covid-driven recession. … promised by the National Party over 2021-2025, there is no mention of this population health work, let alone of …
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  • The case for lowering salt levels in processed foods is now even stronger – new research

    … and high sodium intake were associated with higher risk of death. But new research suggests that low sodium intakes … reduce health inequalities and save health sector costs.   What does the new study show? The newly published research …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … Last week we introduced the concept of league tables to compare interventions. This week we … League Table , and focused on how it is important to know what you are comparing – the intervention description, and … What is the BODE 3 Interactive League Table, and how does it work?  First, what we have put up has data on 67 …
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  • Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream

    … increasingly difficult decisions as nitrate pollution of drinking water sources worsens. Some water supplies in the … were commonly identified sources of nitrate pollution. 10 What is essential to know, but appears not to be publicly … are paid for by rates. Standard drinking water treatment does not remove nitrate and, where ECan has allowed nitrate …
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  • NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?

    … for a second time this week on the consultation draft of the NZ Health Strategy, focusing this time on preventive … And: “Engagement with the sector to develop a picture of what the future might look like resulted in a greater … some good bits in this Draft Strategy. It should, and does, consider how to embrace and maximise use of IT systems, …
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  • NZ’s long-running Campylobacter epidemic from poultry: Now with antibiotic resistance

    … Added to this problem is the recent rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance in these Campylobacter infections … in-hospital treatment. The larger concern is that this episode shows how vulnerable our heavily contaminated poultry is to the entry of AMR organisms. In the current episode we don’t know where this AMR came from or how it …
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