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  • World Ventil8 Day – How do our buildings measure up?

    … in NZ In NZ, most homes rely on natural ventilation, with the addition of localised air extraction systems such as … approaches to improve indoor air quality in NZ buildings are missing. This gap is in stark contrast to outdoor air … excess of recommended CDC recommended 800 ppm (green line) What can we do? In NZ we largely rely on occupants to …
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  • NZ should prepare for a potentially severe global coronavirus pandemic

    … now means activating all components of our pandemic plan, with a particular focus on ‘keep it out’. NZ has many natural … apparent (even with an exponential rise in cases, number are small at first). In this group of out-of-mainland-China … services became overwhelmed. Also more of these cases who are currently hospitalised could die – again pushing up the …
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  • Should you swap sugar for artificial sweetener? Maybe not if you’re a mouse, but what if you’re a human?

    … you’re going to reduce sugar intake, should you replace it with artificial sweetener? If you’re a mouse – no. If you’re … resistance. But I’m not a mouse However, mice and humans are obviously not the same. For starters, the average mouse … and waist circumference (-0.83 cm; 95% CI -1.29 to -0.37). What about safety? If you take the evidence from the review …
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  • Physical activity or nutrition interventions: which can improve population health the most and save the most health dollars?

    … Expert on taxes and subsidies, and how challenging they are to model. The discussions also ranged more widely to … interventions (e.g. food labelling). During the discussion with the MPs, our host for the evening Louise Upston … Government Whip) asked a good triple whammy question: What interventions achieve more health gain – diet or …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … which the biomarker levels in e-cigarette users (vapers) are compared to those from tobacco smokers. The results are … use these products is also a likely determinant of what toxicants they inhale. For example, there is evidence … compared to tobacco smokers. In particular, the risk associated with carbon monoxide seems likely to be close to …
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  • Eliminate the pandemic virus causing COVID-19 or risk an animal reservoir

    … Most other countries have not pursued this goal and are ignoring the opportunity even now. SARS-CoV-2 is not … consent and support from a community that rapidly grasped what was at stake and how to deal with it, New Zealand went … the relevant one. Further, the longer incubation period associated with SARS-CoV-2 makes tracing and isolation of …
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  • Illicit tobacco trade and the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: Arguments and evidence

    … trade in NZ, and discuss ways of mitigating any potential problems. Introduction Illicit tobacco trade undermines … tobacco control measures, such as tobacco taxation, which are effective in reducing youth smoking uptake and increasing … and the onward sale of black market tobacco products. What steps could the NZ Government take to minimise illicit …
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  • Regulation of alcohol marketing is needed to meet health, wellbeing and equity goals

    … and the need for urgency is made, and ways forward are described. In Aotearoa, alcohol results in a wide range … vulnerable, as exposure to alcohol advertising is associated with earlier initiation of drinking and with … prohibited in the way that tobacco advertising is, it is common on digital platforms including social media like …
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  • Casting a long shadow: Infection drives stomach cancer inequalities in Māori and Pacific peoples

    … 6 times the rates of stomach cancer as NZ Europeans. These are some of the starkest relative inequalities between ethnic … and passed down through families. It’s prevalence is associated with poverty and household crowding (8) and may be … crowding (9), particularly for the least well off, problems with housing affordability and child poverty have …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC) to ensure children are protected from the harms associated with smoking. In recent years, the NZ Ministry of … of vaping (3) and its opponents (4). Big tobacco knows what it’s doing! The big tobacco companies have a “history of …
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