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  • What can we learn from Healthy Housing Initiatives? New evidence from the Wellington Well Homes scheme

    … know that poor housing conditions result in ill health for many New Zealanders, and we know which interventions are … can promote good health.  New Zealand research has shown how low indoor temperatures and mould impair children’s lung … reported really dire conditions in some cases – entering people’s homes, they could see grass through cracks in the …
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  • Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?

    … legally in NZ. This consultation raises questions about how the wider uptake of e-cigarette use (known as “vaping”) … for example, indoor area vaping bans already exist in many places within the USA (eg, (1)), with most overlapping … high compliance needs to be readily understandable to people who vape and those around them. Exemptions that allow …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … Government is obliged to protect the health and wellbeing of Māori. It is further obligated under both the United … Vapes are glamourised in images that feature young people and present vaping in fashionable or on-trend … likely to use e-cigarettes daily. It is estimated that as many as 1 in 4 first time tobacco smokers display the early …
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  • Mounting complexities in the dietary salt & health relationship

    … (13-16)) but the last two of these cited studies included people with established cardiovascular disease (so reverse … Nevertheless, if there are multiple confounders on many separate “backdoor paths” (epidemiological jargon for … such a relationship (but, again, we have difficulty seeing how this might result in a “U-shaped” relationship). Unlike …
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  • New study on going smokefree – major economic gains for NZ society with manageable costs for government

    … lifespans) and reduced tobacco excise tax revenue (due to people quitting smoking) produce a net financial shortfall … evidence-informed government.   A recent Briefing detailed how the new coalition government is planning to repeal the … trend analysis in our published paper. There are also many other ways that NZ Government revenue shortfalls could …
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  • The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not

    … modelling 1 , opinion surveys, and in-depth analyses of people who smoke and young people, 2-4 informed the … NZ’s approach, which has already inspired global change . How much harm will this decision cause? Every year, 5000 New Zealanders die from diseases caused by smoking.  Modelling suggests that …
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  • Social Marketing for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Reminding, Reinforcing, and Changing Social Norms

    … marketing has several important roles. First, it may deter people from unhealthy behaviours, such as smoking, by … may sway opinion by exposing industry practices, such as how tobacco companies deceived and then blamed people who … very welcome. Supporting and reinforcing behaviour change Many social marketing campaigns aim to encourage compliance …
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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … intake for consultation. In this blog, we review some of the underlying evidence on the health harm of sugar, and … then pull back to consider the diet in total. There are many other aspects to the “sugar wars” that we do not cover … or ‘spurious’ associations, in such studies due to people in the lowest and highest quintiles differing for …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … for substantial and enduring change to food environments. Many other countries are implementing innovative food policy … Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) Children and Young People’s Advertising (CYPA) Code on exposure to marketing, … high in energy and sodium 6 . What surprised us was just how unhealthy some of the meal combos were, with some …
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  • Taxes on fizzy drinks in NZ: preventing premature deaths and raising funds for health

    … A task of public health research is to quantify the health impact of … possible policy implications. We have previously outlined how difficult it is to estimate precisely the health impact … that is maximally beneficial for society – all, or as many as possible, members of society.  Similar arguments …
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