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  • It’s been 3 years since COVID entered New Zealand – here are 3 ways to improve our response

    … Summary Aotearoa New Zealand’s elimination strategy and subsequent high Covid-19 vaccination coverage gave this … three of the pandemic is resulting in frequent infection and reinfection with associated illness, hospitalisation, … is now transitioning from an emergency pandemic response 1 to treating Covid-19 as another important infectious …
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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 … Such bread designs could be promoted by health agencies and utilised in conjunction with a government-funded bread … (29.5 million), cardiovascular disease (21.2 million) and cancer (6.7 million) (2). Dietary risk factors are …
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  • Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research

    … hold divergent views on how access to vaping products or electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) products … ENDS should be as widely available as smoked tobacco and argue for liberal access. However, others suggest smoked … and other products, such as heated tobacco products (HTP). 1 Among other topics, the Bill is expected to set product …
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  • More than 147km – the transformative potential of the Wellington bike network plan

    … the city have cycleways that connect to the central city and three quarters of people in the city will be within 5 … soon instead of waiting for everything to be completed and that aspects that don’t work well are adjusted before … footnote at end of this blog), but this could be higher or lower depending on the quality of the cycle network. What …
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  • Highlights of the World Conference on Tobacco or Health

    … The 16 th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCToH) has just been held in Abu Dhabi, United … In this blog post we describe some of the main themes and some thoughts about how these might relate to Smokefree … national champion for Smokefree 2025 within the government and Parliament. The Conference was held in the 10 th year of …
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  • Phasing out smoking: The Tobacco-Free Generation policy

    … Action Plan for achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal and invited submissions. This blog is one of a series … key aspects of the plan to help inform the debate and submissions. Here we examine the ‘Tobacco-free … is highly addictive (reckoned comparable to heroin or cocaine) (Ernst & Young, 2018) – in other words, it …
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  • Oral nicotine products: Expanding the nicotine marketplace

    … e-cigarettes (ECs) heated tobacco products (e.g., IQOS) and, more recently, oral nicotine products (ONPs). … Man reassured men by entrenching those same norms. 1,2 Industry marketers identified young people’s insecurities … oral mucosa rather than by inhalation of cigarette smoke or EC aerosol. Yet, although we lack robust evidence of ONPs’ …
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  • The alarms are flashing red: Five reasons to upgrade our Alert Level system before the next Covid-positive traveller visits a major city

    … well in 2020, but the Covid-19 landscape is changing and the system needs to change with it to keep NZ ahead of … health and uphold the values of Indigenous peoples’ 1 we describe actions that can be taken to address several … threat such as emergence of a novel, severe pathogen or a new pandemic. 4. The Alert Level system should provide …
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  • “Action for Healthy Waterways”: some big ticket actions that the Government has neglected

    … a fertiliser tax, taxing ruminant animal products, and promoting the right sort of reforestation with a high … health and cultural impacts for people in Aotearoa/NZ [1]. Fortunately, the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has … would be taxing fertiliser (eg, at the fertiliser factory or port of importation), but this is an economic instrument …
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  • New Zealand’s hard-won improvements to our Building Code must be retained: Here’s why

    … were brought in last year after extensive consultation and with almost universal support. Manufacturing has been … the new Code will need 40% less heating than older homes. 1   Insulation does not cause overheating. However poor … would take our insulation standards back to about half or even less of the levels required in Australia 4 , Ireland …
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