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  • Why do so many fear the bicycle?

    … a paper we have just published quantifying the risk of cycling injury. We found it to be low compared to other … marginalised (the bike is shunted, literally, to the side of the road), and how this might be changed.   “It is too … deaths avoided by extra physical activity (via reducing heart disease and cancer risk etc) exceed by roughly 20 to 1 …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … means for public health. Despite the partial exemption of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), the TPP agreement as a whole applies to tobacco, and breaches of the TPP might, in principle, be alleged in relation to … TPP provides mechanisms to pursue complaints for breaches of its obligations in addition to ISDS. These other …
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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 … to estimate the net health and cost impacts for NZ of vaping devices having become widely available. We draw on … denicotinisation and greatly reduced availability of tobacco products. However, although the NZ Government has …
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  • New e-liquid flavour restrictions: Potential impacts on young people and people who smoke

    … to sustained concerns about the rising prevalence of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) use among young people, many of whom find e-liquid flavours very appealing. At the same … Morris International’s IQOS device did not breach s29 of the Smoke-free Environments Act, which prohibits the …
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  • Is NZ a laggard in responding to climate change?: Results of a Global Index

    … The 2014 edition of the “Climate Change Performance Index” has just been … criteria to assess and rank the climate change response of 58 countries (collectively responsible for more than 90 percent of global energy-related CO 2 emissions). Its sources include …
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  • A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development

    … Consequently Māori make up a significant proportion of public housing tenants. Developing and managing housing … associated neighbourhoods that support Māori wellbeing is of critical importance. To help the movement toward … responsive housing and urban environments, members of the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities have …
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  • That old chestnut again – does any alcohol consumption reduce cardiovascular disease risk? More evidence for “no”.

    … The so-called J-shaped curve. We summarised the ‘state of play’ on this topic at PHE Blog in early 2014 . In the … randomisation’ study (like a genetically determined RCT of alcohol consumption – a study design with much potential … metabolite that causes flushing, sweating, an accelerated heart rate and nausea and vomiting – which leads to drinking …
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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 … potential solutions: (i) build on the past NZ success of regulating lower contamination levels in poultry; (ii) … switch completely to other protein foods.   Rapid spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in NZ poultry NZ has a …
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  • Lessons from Canada for NZ: Carbon, Cycling, Tobacco, Nutrition and Cannabis

    … Canada has a number of progressive public policies which can influence health. In … briefly look at 6 potential lessons for NZ in the domains of: (i) responding to climate change; (ii) supporting … and be worth studying. Here we look at six stand-out areas of potential public health significance for NZ. 1) Response …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a new Action Plan to achieve our smokefree goal

    … A new Action Plan was launched by one of New Zealand’s great tobacco control champions – Dame … tobacco-control goal with origins in the vision of Māori leaders for Tupeka Kore (tobacco free) Aotearoa. A … Respiratory Foundation have included full implementation of the Plan in its Political Manifesto for 2017 . In an …
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