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  • Is youth vaping a problem in New Zealand?

    … systems (ENDS) and their potential contribution to public health. We then explore possible explanations for why reports … ago has not resulted in big declines in the proportion of people who smoke, or had more than a modest impact on quit … population health, we must also consider the second area of debate: vaping’s likely impact on non-smokers. Non-smokers …
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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … methods to improve the quality and causal inference of our research – more of that below.  During the week, the Australian Broadcasting … that diet and the association of saturated fat with health is not complex, not nuanced, and does not vary over …
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  • Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change

    … Summary When Cyclone Gabrielle swept across large parts of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) in February this year, it … Such infrastructure is critical for protecting public health, providing drinking water and treating waste. This … Dr Tim Chambers , Marnie Prickett , Adele Broadbent and Dr John Kerr , all Department of Public Health, University of …
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  • Front-of-pack nutrition labels improve understanding but don’t improve healthy food choices; Starlight Trial just published

    … Health Star Rating and Traffic Light nutrition labels have a … from our HRC-funded DIET Programme based at the University of Auckland. This is important evidence for policy. We had expected that these simple, visual front of package labels would have more effect on healthy food …
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  • Five Strategic Approaches to Achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal

    … out five potential strategies for achieving this important health and equity goal and discuss their implementation. … Māori, led by Māori leaders including Shane Bradbrook of Te Reo Marama and Māori Party MP, Hone Harawira. The … Government adopted the goal, which set a national target of achieving minimal smoking prevalence (widely defined as …
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  • The Island Bay cycleway – Terribly important and nothing new

    … the city safer and more attractive for carbon-sparing, health-promoting bicycling, according to some. Unnecessary … and consequently determines the health and well-being of populations. But it is nothing new. The Island Bay story … places. In essence, this is a debate about the best use of a limited common resource. In Wellington and in many other …
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  • Health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 response: NZ compared to OECD countries

    … and -6.3% for the OECD. Nevertheless, a fuller accounting of health, economic and equity impacts probably needs to wait … population is protected by vaccination. As with a number of other jurisdictions in the East Asia and Pacific region, …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … Tobacco companies have made much of their “transformation” vision, which they claim will … pioneered this rhetoric yet this company’s recent launch of a new, super value, smoked tobacco product : the cigarillo … sought as ‘replacement smokers,’ about the devastating health effects of smoking and environmental tobacco smoke .” …
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  • Can pandemic threats justify border closure for island nations like NZ?

    … Countries prepare for future pandemic risks because of pandemic influenza, novel emerging infectious agents and … published in a journal, we explored the costs and benefits of complete border closure in NZ in response to new pandemic … in preventing the spread of pandemics (3). Indeed, World Health Organization (WHO) advice is that while there might be …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … As Aotearoa New Zealand's population ages, the number of people living with dementia is expected to double in the next 20 years – a major health and economic issue. Since age is the biggest risk … dementia. The Lancet Commission recently reported that 45% of dementia cases worldwide could be prevented by tackling 14 …
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