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  • Politicians in Aotearoa NZ live longer than other Kiwis and the gap keeps widening

    … A just published study examined the lifespan of politicians in 11 high-income democratic countries – … matched) and this gap has been growing since 1950. One of the likely reasons is the lower smoking rate of NZ … ). The cohort included NZ politicians first elected in the year 1891 and there was follow-up to the year 2014 (by which …
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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 … Ontario , Quebec ,   Nova Scotia   and New Brunswick .) Many Canadian Provinces have banned smoking in cars with … in and outside of Canada. The Food Guide emphasises how to approach eating food, rather than listing numbers of …
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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 loaf in the … for a government voucher system for provision of HHB to people with CVD) a profit margin would be relevant. For … from a health sector funder perspective would depend on many issues such as the priority given to protecting public …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … group in England. To do this, they first estimated how alcohol consumption varies with price using econometric … on volumes of beverages (rather than units of alcohol) for many years. Recent evaluation shows increases in the minimum … to undervalue the reduction in adverse effects of other people’s heavy drinking. If we want the improvement in health …
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  • The allure of a Virtual Supermarket for public health nutrition research

    … [1], there were highly variable reactions ranging from people willing to spend a significant sum of money to use the … after I eat my broccoli) [3,4]. Now, the question is how to study taxing effects properly. Any public health … we hope to create something that is useful for many academics when testing interventions in a complex …
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  • Can pandemic threats justify border closure for island nations like NZ?

    … to 50 weeks if 0.15% of the population were predicted to die in a pandemic and if border closure was successful. For … closure at an island country level. Even so there are many limitations of this work ( see the full article ). A … optimal response. In particular, such plans should include how the military, police and customs enforce border controls …
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  • The race to be the first place in Aotearoa to be smokefree

    … There is growing frustration with lack of robust action and progress at the national level with the … New Zealand is being helped by the investment of time, people and resources from NGOs (e.g., Cancer Society, Heart … across New Zealand, we have relatively little idea of how much smoking there is in designated ‘smokefree’ areas. …
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  • NZ’s smart use of big data: Employment & income impacts of selected health conditions

    … New Zealand is making rapid strides in the smart use of big data to provide better health information for … years after diagnosis. This is probably from a mix of: people adapting to their new condition, managing it better … conditions There is growing international interest in how health conditions might impact on productivity gains (via …
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  • Debate on ultra-processed foods shouldn’t derail good dietary advice

    … is mounting linking ultra-processed foods (UPF) to risk of chronic disease. Typically, UPF are foods that are … reconstituted meats.  Dietary recommendations encourage people to eat foods that are ‘whole’ or less processed. This … UPF to thrive in our food supply. It is hard to know how much UPF New Zealanders are eating due to lack of recent …
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  • Calculating cardiovascular risk with online calculators – scope for improvement?

    … be improved upon. The clear answer being “yes” – and in many ways. There are many ways to prevent cardiovascular … with their GPs to make more informed decisions about how this risk can be reduced. They should not be regarded as … ) This probably starts to matter quite a lot for older people in their 80s and 90s (7). Other background …
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