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  • Worth its weight: Building insulation in New Zealand

    … au/services-and-advice/households/energy-efficiency/toolbox/how-to/check-your-ceiling-insulation Building insulation provides … and insulation standards. This is despite benefits from insulation that include providing comfort, protecting …
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  • The hardening hypothesis for smoking – but does the evidence point to “softening” in NZ?

    … smokers will be the more addicted ones who are less likely to quit. But does the NZ evidence support this? This blog … among the smoking population over time. However, studies from a variety of countries that have looked at these … goal? There are two key implications. The first concerns how we should achieve Smokefree 2025. If hardening was …
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  • Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action

    … Aotearoa NZ has responded very successfully to the COVID-19 pandemic by achieving elimination and the … to learn from the “science of superspreading” [21] and how such settings have contributed to recent deterioration of … most important 3 things that citizens still need to do: Stay home if you have cold or flu symptoms and get tested. …
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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … This poor result suggests that the NZ Government needs to act promptly to upgrade the country’s defences against pandemic threats. … as a maturity model with the goal being to lift NZ’s score from 54.0 to 100/100. The assessment scored the country at …
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  • Mounting complexities in the dietary salt & health relationship

    … past work that a (very) high intake of salt is hazardous to health – an increased hazard was also found for low … review to clarify the research and policy agenda from here. Our interpretation should be treated as … such a relationship (but, again, we have difficulty seeing how this might result in a “U-shaped” relationship). Unlike …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 1)

    … screening are (much) less than previously thought due to over-detection and other issues. In today’s Part 1 blog, … debate comes down to three issues. These are: 1. How much, if at all, does screening reduce breast cancer … to report results, and information is also now available from the many population screening programmes …
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  • Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls

    … for girls is clearly a “good value-for-money” way to protect health – even at the modest 47% coverage. Because … cost-effective. In this blog we discuss these findings and how the country could catch-up to the much higher HPV … only, but there are health benefits to both men and women from herd immunity. Since introduction, sentinel surveillance …
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  • Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status

    … globally and in NZ. We focus on potential revisions to NZ’s Alert Level system that involve improved use of mass … could all help accelerate rapid progress back to elimination status for NZ while minimising disruption of … to a highly disruptive Level 4 lockdown. Experience from the above jurisdictions indicates that this goal can be …
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  • Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?

    …   Image from a World Health Organization poster In a modelling study … role of increasing tobacco tax for achieving an end to the tobacco epidemic in NZ. The bottom line is that tax … of alternatives (such as e-cigarettes); (iii) and how the price elasticity of tobacco might change when prices …
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  • Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis

    … New Zealand Government food environment policies, compared to international best practice.  This is the second such … and there are some areas where there is progress compared to 2014. However, there remain major implementation gaps, … implementing such policies. This is the main conclusion from the second Healthy Food Environment Policy Index …
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