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  • Public Health Communication Centre strategic outline

    … public health research evidence in order to protect and improve the health, well-being, and equity of the people of Aotearoa New Zealand and the health of the environment in which we live. Primary …
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  • Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: Five key ways to reduce the massive health and social costs

    … premature deaths of more than 3300 adult New Zealanders and more than 13,100 hospital admissions for respiratory … NZ in 2019 (95% uncertainty interval [UI]: 4510 to 5100). 1 And it far exceeds that of exposure to second-hand smoke, … (but this Foundation has no role in work content or the decision to publish). … Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: …
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  • New proposals to limit youth vaping from Labour: Do they go far enough?

    … to 600, eliminating loopholes within existing legislation, and reducing the visibility of vaping products. In this … to vape daily despite never smoking increasing from 3.1% in 2021 to 4.3% in 2022” [our emphasis]. This description, … smoked implies that vaping among young people who smoke (or who have tried smoking) is less concerning, given vaping …
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  • Lessons from Canada for NZ: Carbon, Cycling, Tobacco, Nutrition and Cannabis

    … directed at children; (v) healthy food guidelines; and (vi) cannabis law reform.   Canada is a high-income … areas of potential public health significance for NZ. 1) Response to climate change There is international survey … advertisements were classified as either high fat, sugar or sodium and a smaller proportion of food ads were …
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  • The marked decline of sudden mass fatality events in NZ (1900 to 2015)

    … Professor Nick Wilson and Associate Professor George Thomson Our recently published … What were the main findings of this new study? Our study (1) found a total of 56 sudden mass fatality events with 10 or more fatalities occurring between 1900 and 2015 in NZ. …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … a resident of Westport (a New Zealand town flooded by a ‘1 in 100 year event’) even stated that he knew the area had … organisations such as the UN, WHO, World Bank, and organisations such as the US National Academy of Sciences … been pre-contemplated, then ‘off the shelf’ solutions, or at least solution outlines, might have been available at …
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  • Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation

    … companies strongly opposed the introduction of plain (or standardised) packaging, this measure increased the rate … Strengthening policies regulating tobacco packaging and product design could further reduce smoking uptake while … greatly reduced the appeal of smoking among young people 1, 2 . Tobacco industry opposition successfully delayed the …
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  • High levels of CO2 found in small study of early childhood centres: Improving ventilation in the time of COVID-19

    … respiratory viruses in indoor spaces where people gather and spend time. 1 In this study run by medical students, the CO 2 levels were … be opened but all the rest of the rooms either had windows or sliding doors that could be opened. None of the monitored …
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  • Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes

    … leads to significant reductions in cigarette smoking and dependence, and increased quit attempts and quit success. … plan is denicotinisation – rendering cigarettes minimally or non-addictive by reducing their nicotine content to a … to over 7000 chemicals including about 70 carcinogens. 1 The tobacco industry has harnessed the addictive power of …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Improving the cost, composition and availability of foods can save lives

    … looks at solutions in the food system: reducing the cost and increasing the availability of healthy food and reformulation of processed food. This blog is part of the … ), which has been estimated to reduce dietary cost by 13% or $28.70 a week for an average family of four . Or …
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