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  • The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not

    … Government is committed to addressing the tobacco epidemic and that it will follow the evidence; both coalition … from around 6000 to no more than 600; Denicotinisation, or lowering the nicotine content of cigarettes and tobacco to … trials, epidemiological investigations, modelling 1 , opinion surveys, and in-depth analyses of people who …
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  • Ireland leads New Zealand in the battle against obesity

    … her home-country, Ireland. Cliona sent an email to myself and other Kiwis during that time outlining the strong actions … a year in healthcare expenditure and lost productivity (1). For the last several years, the approach to obesity in … programme is welcome, but our dismal inability to reverse (or even slow) obesity trends so far suggests that far more …
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  • How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    … working at the border, including in the Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) facilities. There have been calls for … other groups such as  those in South Auckland [1] and meat industry workers [2] and the National Ethics … New Zealand priorities should therefore be: Any border or health worker likely to be exposed to cases of Covid-19, …
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  • Physical activity or nutrition interventions: which can improve population health the most and save the most health dollars?

    … a presentation to Members of Parliament last week on taxes and subsidies on food, the pros and cons ( slides here ). In this blogpost we go into some … What interventions achieve more health gain – diet or physical activity? What about if you combine them? And …
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  • Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream

    … breached drinking water standards for nitrate pollution and publicly available information suggests more could … the drinking water standards (the Maximum Allowable Value or MAV, 11.3mg/L as nitrate-nitrogen). 1,2   Publicly available information suggests the problem of …
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  • False zombie arguments about illicit tobacco shouldn’t be given any more oxygen

    … terms in tandem with declines in smoking prevalence and consumption. Arguments about growth in illicit trade come … of argument that refuse to die, despite lacking a logical or empirical foundation. 1 Repeated often enough, many people may come to believe …
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  • Emphasis on indigenous forests in ETS would benefit public health

    … touch on the impacts to human health from climate change and then outline the problems for public health from … of the greatest health challenges of the 21 st century. 1 Climate change poses both direct and indirect health … well-being from climate change policy is often obscured or ignored when the problem that policy is aiming to solve is …
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  • A pandemic that won’t go away – as Covid enters its 5th year, NZ needs a realistic strategy

    … that this pandemic is very different to expectations and adapt accordingly. Evolving variants are driving ongoing … New Zealand  in eight weeks, killing 9,000 people – almost 1% of the population. 1 Then it was largely gone, returning … feature of long Covid : recovery can take  two years or more , with  symptoms that fluctuate  over time. 7 An …
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  • Fighting cold, damp housing – a big tick for Warmer Kiwi programme

    … use, result in warmer, drier living areas in winter, and can help to lower respiratory illness. Motu Research has evaluated the Government’s Warmer Kiwi Homes programme and found using heat pumps reduces electricity use by 16 … and exacerbation of chronic conditions such as asthma. 1,2,3 Improved home heating can lead to reductions in these …
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  • The cost burden of excess weight in New Zealand: Sizing up a new report

    … results show a substantial up-tick in both childhood and adult obesity prevalence after plateauing for a decade. This is of great concern and it makes a new report from the Sapere Research Group on … that society would put on premature death, disability or loss of quality of life attributed to the condition …
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