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  • Sustained Resilience: the impact of nuclear war on New Zealand and how to mitigate catastrophe

    … Efforts to prevent nuclear war should be greatly intensified – but we … was famish’d by degrees; but two / Of an enormous city did survive, / And they were enemies” Internal conflict may arise … the possibilities of such challenges. We need to calculate how many can be fed. En masse arrivals may be unlikely in a …
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  • New proposals to limit youth vaping from Labour: Do they go far enough?

    … The Labour Party has released a factsheet outlining plans to “crack down” on youth vaping. Proposals include … been so slow to recognise youth vaping as a problem and how effective will Labour’s proposed new policies be? Clues … Assumptions that young people “choose” to vape reflect long-standing tobacco industry claims regarding smoking and …
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  • What can Aotearoa NZ learn from Australia’s new vaping policies?

    … vaping products, and decrease the appeal of vaping to young people. Should NZ also consider these measures? In this article, we analyse that question and suggest NZ … As smoking prevalence falls, discussion needs to examine how people who vape may be supported to quit, and a …
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  • Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data

    … There are striking inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality in NZ, by both ethnicity … policy-makers, journalists and health practitioners to access high quality data on these vital, population-level … motivation for developing the Data Explorer and outline how some of our key research findings can be identified using …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 2)

    … Professor Diana Sarfati on breast cancer screening. In Part 1 t hey looked at the contested research around … should stop and the quality and honesty of communication to women must improve. We would also go one step further and … are two issues here; which information to present and how to present it. Firstly, what information should we use? …
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  • NZ compares well with other OECD countries in health & other areas: But scope for improvements

    … NZ compares favourably with other OECD countries in many ways – according to the just released results of the OECD’s “Better Life … blog ). Higher self-reported health (2/36): When asked, “How is your health in general?” 89% of people in NZ reported …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … of access for assisted dying without equity of access to palliative care is to completely undermine the goals of the End of Life Choice Act. The choice is distorted towards aid in dying and away from palliative care. In this blog I will …
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  • Limiting the size of single serve sugary drinks: New NZ study on health and cost impacts

    … on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) internationally, due to their role in tooth decay, obesity and diabetes [1-3], their lack of … the effectiveness of such a portion size intervention is how consumers will respond. If it is only possible to buy …
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  • (Un)licensed to kill: do we need to regulate how tobacco is sold?

    … recent articles by Aspire2025 researchers have explored how tobacco sales in New Zealand could be more effectively … how stronger tobacco supply policies would contribute to the Government’s smokefree 2025 goal.   It may come as a … in NZ could help reduce smoking prevalence over the long-term, though further work is required to test the …
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  • A pandemic that won’t go away – as Covid enters its 5th year, NZ needs a realistic strategy

    … into its fifth year in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), we need to recognise that this pandemic is very different to … underlying illness. But its largest health impact may be Long Covid because it is relatively common after acute … as a new seasonal flu virus. In doing so, it defined how pandemics were expected to behave. This model was written …
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