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

    … an app, locate an e-scooter using the app map, and unlock a device they would like to use by scanning a QR code on the … on mode – cars and roads, pedestrians and footpaths – can accommodate change. Placing people at the heart of inner … innovation and public well-being? How effectively can central and local governments address and regulate new …
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  • Action needed to halt New Zealand’s obesity epidemic: Themes from Big Food Symposium

    … banning junk food marketing to children, introducing a tax on fizzy drinks, introducing easy to understand … nutrition labels on foods, and ensuring families can afford to eat a healthy diet. Without supplementing … complications.(8-10) The stigma associated with obesity can also harm a child’s psychosocial health, with obese …
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  • New e-liquid flavour restrictions: Potential impacts on young people and people who smoke

    … 1) grew. 4 Figure 1: VAPO age verification screen for a NZ-based website (4 August, 2021)   Figure 2: Screen shot … 7   Figure 3: VAPO Vapetasia E-liquid selection on a NZ-based website (4 August, 2021)   Aggressive … had risen to over 12%. The Youth19 survey covers a wider age range (13 to 18 year olds) of young people from …
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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 … we have seen in the last decade, especially for Māori. Can we do it? We think so, if the political will to help … far reaching, and markedly drive up cessation How can we do it? One possibility comes from work from the BODE 3 …
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  • The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality

    … Kiwis. Today Alafeishat and colleagues have published a paper in the NZ Medical Journal showing that New Zealand … in places. And we do know the sorts of interventions that can be done to improve patient journeys through cancer care, … by Mark Elwood and colleagues? About as good as you can achieve. It is surprisingly difficult to undertake …
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  • Preventing diabetes: What does the latest modelling evidence tell us about health gains and cost savings?

    … affecting the fetus [2]. People with diabetes have a substantially increased death rates and high morbidity (ie, … as the “diabetes prevention program” (DPP). The DPP was a randomised controlled trial that tested intensive lifestyle … type 2 diabetes and shows the maximum cost the programme can be for overall cost savings to remain. For example, if …
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  • Ireland leads New Zealand in the battle against obesity

    … the Irish Government is planning on obesity and food – a far cry from the state of play in New Zealand. Which has … 2 nd test match in 2012 where the ABs narrowly won with a drop kick minutes before the end, and the second was late last year in Dublin when the ABs won by a margin of just 2 points. Optimistic Irish rugby fans are …
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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 … people. If these could be used at markets, then this can help support local growers and distributors as well – so …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … While it is possible that New Zealand can use intense public health controls to eradicate COVID-19 … the reduction of preventable injuries that currently take a toll on hospital and health resources. These include those … causing death (when compared to minor injuries). 17 Some simple policies that would give immediate help for hospital …
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  • Does change in income and deprivation change your smoking risk? Yes, but in different directions.

    … followed over several years.  We found that moving from a neighbourhood with the least deprived fifth of New … increases smoking risk.  But, this runs counter to a simple ‘social causation of disease’ model that suggests … changed.  This study design is vastly superior to a simple one-off survey – but still not as good as a randomized …
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