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Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023
… Summary The results of a Health Coalition Aotearoa survey of political parties on … These three harmful products are responsible for almost a third of Aotearoa New Zealand’s health burden and demand … making sure tobacco isn’t sold at all to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009. We are proud to lead the world in …
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Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?
… Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred out by Google’s algorithm for … ). But this tool can help with research – as we report in a just published review in the journal “Tobacco Control”. In … shade provision in childrens’ playgrounds. But GSV is often only able to show features of parks and playgrounds …
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Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax
… We found that these meta-analyses supported this, eg, a 5% shift in dietary energy from saturated fats to … some of the potential policy ideas for helping with such a shift, including a Danish-style saturated fat tax. Specific dietary fats as a …
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Study of NZ fruit & vegetable prices suggests markets best value-for-money
… generally lower at markets compared to supermarkets (with a family of four potentially saving up to $49 per week by buying at markets compared to from a supermarket). We also consider what else that central and … The inadequate consumption of fruits and vegetables is a well-known risk factor for a wide array of diseases …
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Promoting physical activity through the prescription of smartphone apps in primary care: Likely to produce health gains and cost-savings
… cost-savings. Introduction Inadequate physical activity is a risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD), diabetes, … of mobile phones makes mHealth interventions scalable to a broad population [9, 10]. While there are a number of … of consultation, and the literature suggests that GPs are often particularly time-limited [25]. However, is unclear …
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Charting our way back to normal
… A new web tool, COVID-19 Pandemic Trade-offs, allows people … used our peer reviewed agent-based model to estimate infection rates as well as the different health losses and … across hundreds of scenarios during the vaccine rollout as a way to road test different policy options. It is an updated …
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A 100 years ago today a death ship from NZ arrived in Samoa: A reminder of NZ’s responsibilities to its South Pacific neighbours
… with infectious disease surveillance and pandemic control. A recent review of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the Pacific … for another maritime spread of influenza. During a single voyage, the ship inadvertently introduced pandemic … of having sick people on board and the Talune was given a clean “bill of health”. The results of the subsequent …
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Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?
… explore the arguments around such disinvestment from a public health perspective. To understand why these … and reduced to near zero or negative by 2100. This will be a huge challenge given that global emissions have almost … of the world. But there is a bigger picture to consider. After all, “there is no place to move to should we degrade …
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What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.
… Professor Tony Blakely The New Zealand Government has a goal of a Smokefree Nation by 2025, often interpreted as a smoking prevalence of less than 5% by … or increases the marginal quit rate from 10% to (say) 11% after six months, this is only going to be a small part of …
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Reducing tobacco retail availability: counterarguments to industry claims
… tobacco companies’ interests. Introduction Achieving a substantial reduction in the number of outlets selling … proposals aim to address the glaring anomaly that allows a consumer product as deadly and addictive as tobacco, which … A Crime Prevention Group set up “to advocate for dairies after robberies increased” initially called for a complete …
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