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  • Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status

    … to NZ’s Alert Level system that involve improved use of mass masking, targeted internal travel restrictions, and … to elimination status for NZ while minimising disruption of economic activity and education. The global situation It … in most countries around the world. Nevertheless, a number of jurisdictions appear to have eliminated community …
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  • The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not

    … decisions will be “based on data and evidence”. Yet, one of the coalition government’s proposed actions – to repeal … and will ensure smoking continues to cost thousands of lives and millions of health care dollars. Prime Minister Luxon could yet …
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  • Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research

    … suggests that strategies to reduce the dietary salt intake of New Zealanders could produce major health gains and major … sector. We also put these results into a wider context of how nutrition could be improved in NZ. This study was done given the high importance of dietary sodium (salt) as a global disease risk factor – it …
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  • Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?

    … are disinvesting, check out the Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5 th … released on November 2. This sums up the thousands of pages written by three Working Groups on climate sciences, … pre-industrial levels”. You have to dig into the body of the Synthesis Report to find out just what is meant by …
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  • Taxing tobacco in NZ: What we know and what could be next

    … A series of seven annual tobacco tax increases, typically at the 10% … unknown, and what might be needed for the next phase of tobacco taxation related policy and research. Recent trends The recent pattern of annual tobacco tax increases in NZ has been associated …
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  • Adaptation important but don’t give up on mitigation—what the new IPCC report means for Aotearoa

    … emissions, global heating will roughly triple by the end of the century. Climate change already damages human health … adapting to, and mitigating the current and future impacts of climate change. The latest synthesis report from the IPCC, published today , summarises the state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and …
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  • Contradictions surround Government’s move to slash tax on heated tobacco products

    … had advocated for this change; however, the Ministry of Health had advised Minister Costello that there was no … tobacco products. The tobacco industry has a long history of malign practice. Court judgments have found tobacco … regulated in a “hybrid way”; the device is treated as a vaping product but, because the tobacco sticks used in HTPs …
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  • Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?

    … cancer incidence and mortality in New Zealand.   The rate of new cases of stomach cancer presenting each year have declined over … 1981-2011 (2,3) ( Data explorer ) Stomach cancer is one of the greatest contributors to ethnic inequalities in …
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  • Lessons from jurisdictions that are battling their own Delta variant outbreaks

    … respects a likely scenario given the high infectiousness of this variant and the emerging evidence that vaccines may … Delta transmission compared with the original strain of the pandemic virus. In this blog we discuss public health … also a need to strengthen border control measures.  Some of these past recommendations have been used in the current …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The bigger picture benefits

    …   Summary Associate Minister of Education, David Seymour, has claimed there is no evidence … there is ample international evidence about the value of school lunch programmes in other Western countries. This … the first Briefing in a three-part series, we outline some of the key expected outcomes, impacts and evidence at these …
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