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  • Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?

    … ). But this tool can help with research – as we report in a just published review in the journal “Tobacco Control”. … of the research possibilities of this tool of relevance to public health. Using Google Street View (GSV) for research … also suggests some other potential areas of relevance to tobacco control research using GSV for identifying: …
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  • How should we manage the harm caused by tobacco product waste?

    … were first introduced in the 1950s and 60s, in response to growing evidence that smoking caused lung cancer and other … tobacco product waste (TPW) exists, we know little about how the general public perceives this problem or what they … because reducing smoking prevalence presents the best long-term solution to addressing TPW. 13 … How should we …
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  • Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options?

    … just published modelling study suggests that easier access to nicotine via vaping as a replacement for tobacco smoking, … remained smokefree and vapefree, and former smokers vaping long-term instead of staying nicotine-free). The results were … … Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options? …
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  • New Zealand doing okay in cancer survival: Results from the largest ever cross-national comparison of cancer survival

    … have recently been published for 10 cancer sites, in an exhaustive and thorough combined analysis (CONCORD-2). … We are usually worse than the country we love (or hate?) to compare ourselves with, Australia. Conversely, we are … Likewise Sweden and the USA. Third, it may be surprising how well South Korea is doing. This is particularly so for …
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  • A 100 years ago: The worst year of the First World War for New Zealand

    … at Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) and in this blog we summarise the mortality patterns we described. We also consider to what extent some of these deaths may have been preventable … other year of the First World War (33.2% of the total up to the day the war ended [5547/16,703] [1]). Our analysis of …
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  • Stubbing out democracy: no Government mandate for smokefree repeal

    … The new coalition government has announced its intention to repeal the 2022 smokefree legislation and three key measures to help achieve the Smokefree Aotearoa goal. We assess … of the legislation was not put before the electorate in the recent election campaign and is inconsistent with …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: Are they worth investing in?

    … ongoing funding for the programme; identifying ways to expand the programme so that all children in Aotearoa New Zealand will benefit; undertaking a formal … is a mixed-methods, participatory system that assesses how well resources are used and how much value is created. 1 …
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  • ACC turns 50: A more modern approach to injury prevention needed

    … the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) was launched to provide world-leading, universal, no-fault compensation … risk. What works most cost-effectively for prevention? How can ACC play a stronger public health role? Need to … injury prevention strategies have advanced a long way since the Woodhouse Report. The Report’s principle …
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  • Should you swap sugar for artificial sweetener? Maybe not if you’re a mouse, but what if you’re a human?

    … negative impact on dental caries, body weight, and other long-term health conditions such as diabetes, is highly … announced that we should reduce our daily sugar intake to less than 5% of total energy . In this blog, we consider two new articles assessing the …
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  • Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive

    … age and superannuation policy. But few are aware just how dramatic the changes in cause-specific mortality have been in the last century. We … story of mortality decline in New Zealand. The path to low mortality that this country followed was unique in …
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