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  • Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?

    … a modelling study on stomach cancer prevention in the international journal  BMC Infectious Diseases  (1). This … for H. pylori to prevent stomach cancer. Globally there are increasing calls for H. pylori eradication, yet little … in reducing incidence and mortality from stomach cancer? What are the adverse effects of a population H. pylori …
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  • The rise and rise of specialist vape stores: Time for the Government to act

    … recent New Zealand Medical Journal letter , we pointed out the rising number of specialist vape stores (SVRs), many of which are “stores-within-a-store”, small areas within existing … pharmacists, which currently number around 900 . So what more could the Government and VIANZ do? The Government …
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  • The UK Government shows leadership with a Soft Drink Tax announcement

    … activity programmes. In this blog we briefly look at the UK initiative and assess its possible utility for … consume approximately 25 teaspoons (1,2). Beverages are the highest contributor to total sugars intake for Kiwi … tax sensitive to sugar content (see our previous blog ). What about New Zealand? The case for a soft drink tax in NZ …
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  • Food poverty for NZ teens creating an achievement lag of up to four years

    … Summary  The Program for International Student Achievement (PISA) 2022 … Zealand (NZ) students, particularly in mathematics. 2 But what’s behind this decline in achievement? For the first … Students in NZ who miss meals due to lack of money are 2 to 4 years behind in maths, reading and science …
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  • World Ventil8 Day – How do our buildings measure up?

    … Summary Nothing is more fundamental than the air we breathe. Taking place every year on the 8 November … approaches to improve indoor air quality in NZ buildings are missing. This gap is in stark contrast to outdoor air … excess of recommended CDC recommended 800 ppm (green line) What can we do? In NZ we largely rely on occupants to …
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  • NZ’s long-running Campylobacter epidemic from poultry: Now with antibiotic resistance

    … infection epidemic with contaminated fresh poultry the major source. Added to this problem is the recent rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance in these Campylobacter infections … a great opportunity for preventing these cases (there are multiple sources for the other 50% of cases so these are …
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  • What public health lessons can NZ still learn from the United States?

    … The United States has many major health problems – including … due partly to high administrative costs [1]. There are even the peculiarities of health agencies being “banned” … Government (and local governments in NZ) need to determine what are their own health priorities. This can consider the …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … we know little about how young people – those targeted by the SFG policy – perceive it. In this blog, we briefly … prohibition arguments apply only when young people are denied a behaviour they have freely chosen. Evidence that … with the SFG. Some among this minority supported what they thought would be less restrictive measures to …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … Summary This blog considers recent studies in which the biomarker levels in e-cigarette users (vapers) are compared to those from tobacco smokers. The results are … use these products is also a likely determinant of what toxicants they inhale. For example, there is evidence …
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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 … as widening gaps in mortality for diseases consistent with the obesity epidemic; and the fact that adults aged 25-44 … Zealanders (1). Also four times as many Māori women die of lung cancer than their European/Pakeha counterparts (2). …
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