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  • Energy poverty: The lowest-income households pay more in Aotearoa

    … severe mental distress. 2 Living in energy poverty exposes many people to unsafe indoor temperatures. Low indoor temperature … information from the Household Economic Survey to estimate how many households were experiencing energy poverty in 2019. …
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  • Contradictions surround Government’s move to slash tax on heated tobacco products

    … “solutions” (in the form of new nicotine products) to the many harms caused by their smoked tobacco products. 5   6   … means it is unclear what outcomes she wants to achieve or how she plans to assess these. Furthermore, she has not … by explaining how she is monitoring HTP uptake among young people, given reducing excise tax may increase HTP use and …
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  • The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill – a chance to submit on pivotal legislation for health in Aotearoa

    … structural changes and will be associated with a suite of new health planning and strategy documents. The aim of … functions of the MoH and the DHBs. Planning There are many new plans and strategies proposed to be introduced … of Public Health – submitters may want to comment on how this role could be strengthened and whether it should …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … Last week we introduced the concept of league tables to compare interventions. This week we … launched BODE 3 Interactive League Table.  We walk through how to pull down tables and graphs of health gain … and 97.5 th limits for the 95% uncertainty interval, for each of QALYs, costs and ICERs.  These uncertainty intervals …
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  • Unaffordable home heating increases risk of severe mental distress

    … Summary The cost-of-living crisis is placing more people at risk of being … their homes. We know living in cold housing contributes to many negative physical health outcomes. There is increasing …
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  • Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic

    … that tobacco – and for that matter alcohol – with orders of magnitude more harm gets the wet bus ticket regulatory … and alcohol from the legislation? Focusing on tobacco, how are these products, that kill around five thousand New Zealanders every year, regulated? Which of the party pill retail and sale …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … Sciences had made explicit warnings to governments across many years about pandemic and emerging infectious disease … of public and private global organisations contemplating how to deal with a coronavirus pandemic that kills 65 million people. This table-top exercise took place in New York on 18 …
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  • Transport, carbon emission reduction and health- the possibility of a virtuous circle?

    … environmental policies, but also highlight that there are many ‘no-brainer’ actions that can be taken now with likely … recently published a systematic review “Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Policies in the Transport Sector … emissions by 2.7% and (conservatively) saves 27 lives per year due to reductions in air pollution. We found a …
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  • The hardening hypothesis for smoking – but does the evidence point to “softening” in NZ?

    … among those quitting. If true it would support the views of the people who say to me with wearying regularity when I mention … goal? There are two key implications. The first concerns how we should achieve Smokefree 2025. If hardening was …
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  • Optimising the effects of plain packaging for tobacco – making Quitline information more salient

    … Given plain packaging of tobacco products will likely increase the tension many smokers experience, simple measures that enhance … follow Australia’s lead, we should be asking whether and how we can improve on their legislation. Packages featuring a …
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