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  • Lime E-Scooters – Avoiding a collision course with public health?

    … argue they will help reduce traffic density, thus bringing health and environmental benefits, while critics suggest they … In this blog, we consider the public health implications of Lime e-scooters, review how policy makers could maximise … pose, and consider wider questions regarding allocation of urban space.   The ‘shared economy’, where consumers make …
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  • Ready or not? Pandemic preparedness index and implications for NZ

    … how the world remains vulnerable to the persisting risk of pandemics. The Global Health Security (GHS) Index is one tool for finding out how … as deliberate biological attacks or accidental release of agents used in biodefence research.   The world may have …
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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 … refined carbohydrates is very likely to be hazardous to health. … A new review on dietary fats: Putting its findings …
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  • Being Bolder – Public Health Endgames for NZ

    … vector successfully eliminated from NZ At the Public Health Congress in Auckland last week, one of us presented on potential public health endgames – partly … this country could be bolder about tackling.    Examples of successful endgames internationally Thus far, only two …
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  • Why do so many fear the bicycle?

    … a paper we have just published quantifying the risk of cycling injury. We found it to be low compared to other … marginalised (the bike is shunted, literally, to the side of the road), and how this might be changed.   “It is too … in New Zealand (Legge and Landtroop, 2013). About half of New Zealand households own one or more bikes in good …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … as its impact will be more long term.   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health … premature death in Aoteaora , responsible for almost 10% of all health loss (measured in DALYs) and contributing …
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  • Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study

    … hazards in homes) appears to be a very cost-effective health sector intervention. But even more cost-effective was … doing in response to the evidence.   The NZ Burden of Disease Study (NZBDS) reported that falls cause 10% of all the injury-related health loss in this country – in …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … trends in smoking prevalence, and the potential roles of interventions such as higher regular tobacco tax increases … is ongoing increases in tobacco taxes, intensification of existing evidence-based tobacco control activities and … blog post ). So to help with strategic planning by the NZ health sector, we aimed to outline various strategic options …
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  • How should we manage the harm caused by tobacco product waste?

    … Annual consumption of cigarettes now exceeds five trillion, with around four … this problem.  We recently examined public perceptions of TPW in New Zealand and allocation of responsibility for … time declared filtered cigarettes were “Better for your health” and sought to reassure smokers that switching to a …
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  • Wellbeing in public housing vs. private rentals: Quality and security make the difference

    … NZ are assessed as being in serious housing need. Many of these households include children whose current and future … This Briefing summarises recent evidence that provision of public housing can improve the wellbeing of people … in public than in private rentals. Implications for public health There are wellbeing benefits to the provision of …
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