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  • Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?

    … Photo credit: Jenny Ombler Active transport is important for health and sustainability. But no one has previously … This blog reports its main findings. Walking and cycling for transport, instead of using cars, is a sustainable (lower … and cycling) are also well-known. Active transport is good for health, the environment and the economy (1-3). But how …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … long-term harms add to the wide range of other reasons for Aotearoa/New Zealand to persist with its successful … approach to managing this pandemic. The advocacy for this approach is based on an erroneous (but regularly … establish that long-COVID is a real phenomenon and that, for many, the burden of infection with SARS-CoV-2 does not …
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  • Regulating vaping and new nicotine products: Are tobacco companies’ goals aligned with public health objectives?

    … evidence of British American Tobacco’s ambitious plans for its nicotine products, and highlights the disjunction … maximise their potential to “act as a route out of smoking for New Zealand’s 550,000 daily smokers , without providing a route into smoking for children and non-smokers.” The optimal outcome from a …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Simple transport system changes could quickly relieve the crisis in our hospitals

    … neighbourhoods, creating comprehensive pop-up networks for biking, scooting and wheelchair use and speed limit … and injuries (around 14000 a year), hospitalisations for heart conditions (2000 a year just from NO 2 air pollution , additional from noise pollution ) and for respiratory conditions ( 6500 per year just from NO 2 air …
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  • Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

    … neighbours, had kids. Or landlords entering people’s houses and rifling through their belongings while they were … people getting kicked out of flats and their family home for being queer and/or trans. And even landlords and boarding … All of this had an impact on their sense of self. For some, chronic housing instability prevented them from …
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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … these results into the context of tobacco control options for NZ. Across the globe we’re seeing a stream of new … daunting task of regulating them. Should they be allowed for sale, and if so, which types of retailers should be … extraordinary harms of which have been well established for decades. Why is it that combustible tobacco products, one …
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  • Media release: The economic argument for our world-leading smokefree legislation – new research

    … legislation would generate considerable growth in income for New Zealanders with a total gain of NZ$46 billion by 2050 … Centre. The research looks at the growth in income for the NZ population as a result of the smokefree policies, … and also ways of eliminating any financial shortfall for the government. “In the study we looked at the gain for …
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  • Adaptation important but don’t give up on mitigation—what the new IPCC report means for Aotearoa

    … public health impacts as well as policy pathways for both adapting to, and mitigating the current and future … change, its widespread impacts and risks, and the need for climate change mitigation and adaptation. It is aimed … without human-induced climate change. Implications for Aotearoa New Zealand Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) will not …
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  • Sustained Resilience: the impact of nuclear war on New Zealand and how to mitigate catastrophe

    … these potential climate impacts and the consequences for NZ food production in a recent blog post,  Putin and the … 1987 the  NZ Nuclear Impacts Study  examined the potential for similar cascading impacts (Green, Cairns, & Wright, … as sophisticated has been done to update the findings for the NZ context. Contrary to common misconception, …
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  • Oral nicotine products: Expanding the nicotine marketplace

    … widely promoted on social media and may be imported for personal use. In this Briefing, we examine how ONP … evolved, marketers embedded brands into social practices, for example, by creating connections between smoking and … alcohol consumption. 3,4 Legal rulings made it impossible for tobacco companies to continue denying the harms their …
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