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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … It is now time to reduce the number and density of retail outlets selling tobacco.  Retail supply restrictions are both a logical component of policies that will achieve a tobacco-free New Zealand by 2025, and what the majority of consumers want. Marketing is predicated on largely …
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  • Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?

    … journal Tobacco Control , we examined the potential role of increasing tobacco tax for achieving an end to the tobacco … is to be achieved by 2025. In this blog we discuss some of the modelling results and also the other policy options … evidence is that increasing tobacco tax is one of the most important single tobacco control measures. Its …
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  • Three Waters reforms are needed to protect public health and ensure changes are economically sustainable and efficient

    … discussion on the critical need to reform the management of drinking water resources which is currently: 1) … water-related campylobacteriosis outbreak made much of an entire town sick (~8,000 people), with 58 … and four deaths. 1,2 The outbreak was an outcome of systemic flaws in Aotearoa New Zealand’s (A-NZ) regulatory …
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  • Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones

    … scenarios include higher storm severity (as per aspects of some previous cyclones), worse timing, hitting Auckland … poorer response by the public and authorities. This type of downward counterfactual analysis should be conducted for … other disasters to better inform a wider range and depth of future disaster mitigation efforts. In February 2023, …
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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 … as deliberate biological attacks or accidental release of agents used in biodefence research.   The world may have … because ongoing cyberattacks undermined the accuracy of data about the outbreak. This interplay between advancing …
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  • Calculating cardiovascular risk with online calculators – scope for improvement?

    … It is now possible to readily estimate individual risk of future cardiovascular events with a large number of online calculators – including a NZ-specific calculator … tobacco taxes (1)) and regulations to improve the quality of the food supply (e.g., to limit salt (2)). But individual …
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  • Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?

    … main findings. Walking and cycling for transport, instead of using cars, is a sustainable (lower carbon emissions), egalitarian and, mostly, fun way of getting around. Many cities with high levels of cycling and walking, such as Amsterdam and Berlin, are …
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  • The allure of a Virtual Supermarket for public health nutrition research

    … The Virtual Supermarket is a 3D computer model of a real supermarket that we started developing some years … ranging from people willing to spend a significant sum of money to use the tool, to reviewers wondering whether it … and attempt to answer the question – what is the allure of a virtual supermarket for public health nutrition …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 2)

    … Editor note: This is Part 2 of a two-part blog by Dr Caroline Shaw and Associate … agree with Shaw and Sarfati that screening beneath the age of 50 should stop and the quality and honesty of communication to women must improve. We would also go one …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, everybody now knows that: Warnings … Psychological research has shown that these kinds of rare but devastating events are exactly the ones humans … this point home, I noted in the news today that a resident of Westport (a New Zealand town flooded by a ‘1 in 100 year …
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