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  • Tackling child poverty: will the nation’s political leaders honour Richie Poulton’s legacy?

    … the 2023 election campaign. Worse, there is a risk that many low-income families will end up poorer, at least in … health and development. Above all, it has highlighted how our early life experiences and environment affect the … more starkly in the Dunedin Study than the fact that people born into poverty are more likely to suffer hardships …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … strategy is now threatened by the global emergence of new variants with increasingly high transmissibility. We … closure of the Trans-Tasman bubble, and potentially many preventable illnesses and deaths. Upgrading the Alert … evidence around the need to vaccinate children and young people to achieve collective immunity. Staying at home when …
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  • Casting a long shadow: Infection drives stomach cancer inequalities in Māori and Pacific peoples

    … likely to help reduce such inequalities. Māori and Pacific people have 3 to 6 times the rates of stomach cancer as NZ … ). This new study has substantial implications for how we might address excess stomach cancer deaths by … (7). In fact, the E-cadherin mutation does not explain many of the excess deaths in Māori and Pacific. Our new study …
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  • An upgraded Alert Level 2 is urgently needed to address the Delta Variant threat

    … and the system must be updated to address the threat of the highly transmissible Delta variant and future … While the current Alert Level 2 settings allow people to return to work and children to return to school … in a  recent paper for the NZ context [5]). Regardless of how the Alert Levels are labelled, the key logic of the …
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  • New Zealand’s hard-won improvements to our Building Code must be retained: Here’s why

    … that the Government is  considering reducing the thickness of insulation required in new homes . This would mean rolling … cool in summer. Insulating our homes well is a key part of how we adapt to increasing extremes of heat and cold brought … of living in buildings built to previous standards. Many of the submissions also came from builders, designers, …
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  • New Vaping Bill: Some important progress but critical gaps remain

    … disallowing disposable vapes, reducing the visibility of in-store and online displays and introducing stronger … for sales to minors. These steps will help reduce young people’s exposure to vaping products and remove their product … than disallowing particular product types, given how easily the vaping industry circumvents regulations and …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Simple transport system changes could quickly relieve the crisis in our hospitals

    … in place physical barriers to stop cars (but not bikes or people) driving through local streets increases walking and … single neighbourhood LTN, not even as a trial to evaluate how well they work here.   Creating comprehensive pop-up … as an effective response to pandemic physical distancing, many of these cities saw immediate large increases in cycling …
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  • A new review on dietary fats: Putting its findings in context

    … heart disease. We have concerns about some aspects of this review, in particular the lack of context around the totality of the evidence. Hence we … in 2009 and by Siri-Tarino and colleagues in 2010 ). Each of these reviews acknowledges the limitations inherent …
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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … outlets throughout communities across the globe? And how should countries pursuing a smokefree goal, such as NZ , … numbers of tobacco outlets compared to more affluent people, meaning tobacco availability is contributing to … in roughly 27% fewer outlets selling tobacco by 2025.) Many in NZ would strongly agree with this argument. A 2017 …
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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … not to depart from these.  Unplanned purchases illustrate how highly visible in-store stimuli such as shelf-talkers, … located in hospital foyers throughout his country and many others. It’s a curious irony that many of the products … other measures that would reduce the ease with which young people can access tobacco products. The New Zealand …
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