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  • Preventing diabetes: What does the latest modelling evidence tell us about health gains and cost savings?

    … Approximately 5.5% of NZ adults have been diagnosed with diabetes. In this blog … that suggests that further investment in interventions of proven effectiveness to prevent type 2 diabetes could … for NZ. In 2013-2014, it was estimated that around 5.5% of NZ adults (those aged 15 years and over) had diagnosed …
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  • Lime E-Scooters – Avoiding a collision course with public health?

    … In this blog, we consider the public health implications of Lime e-scooters, review how policy makers could maximise … pose, and consider wider questions regarding allocation of urban space.   The ‘shared economy’, where consumers make … that could change the way we travel? Following its launch of shared e-scooters internationally, in late 2018 Lime …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … new evidence and puts it into a NZ context. Nitrate is one of the most common drinking water contaminants in NZ, largely … concerns over nitrate contamination. 1-3 Our recent study of the current nitrate levels in NZ drinking water showed as … are far below the current drinking water nitrate limit of 11.3 mg/L set by the World Health Organization (WHO). The …
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  • Happiness surveys, & can health sector interventions improve well-being?

    … among the happiest people in the world, ranking 13 th out of 156 nations examined. Actually only seven countries appear … (Netherlands and Switzerland) and Canada. The source of the New Zealand data is the two-yearly New Zealand General … Report is not light-weight fluff – far from it. One of the authors, Jeffrey Sachs (Director, The Earth Institute, …
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  • Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data

    … Zealanders (1). Also four times as many Māori women die of lung cancer than their European/Pakeha counterparts (2). The human cost of the premature death and cancer diagnoses resulting from … these inequalities provide the backdrop and motivate much of the public health work in NZ. However, these data have not …
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  • Why don’t we make rental housing safer?

    … by institutional arrangements that favour the framing of home injury as a product of individual behaviour and culpability rather than … remain ineffectively enforced. The home can be a site of multiple hazards leading to the risk of falls, burns, and …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … (SFG) policy; over time, this policy would end sales of smoked tobacco products. Although supported by health … denicotinisation, a large reduction in the availability of smoked tobacco products, and the introduction of a smokefree generation policy (SFG). 1 Implementing an SFG …
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  • A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data

    … a study that looks at two historical datasets – with one of these suggesting life span differences by occupational … NZ troops, 1918 – our study found that the lifespan of non-combat troops varied by occupational class  What we … factor for health internationally. A recent meta-analysis of 48 cohort studies reported that low SEP was the third most …
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  • Tax policy as a key health determinant: Reform for the Covid-19 reset

    … that are critical for the prevention and management of Covid-19. Tax is the way we all share our resources in … the 1980s. 1 As a flat tax, GST takes a bigger chunk out of the incomes of the poor and thus does nothing to reduce inequalities. …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … plain, packages. In this blog, we discuss the importance of developing an on-going monitoring and evaluation plan … feature new, enlarged pictorial warning labels, but none of the brand livery formerly conveyed on tobacco packaging. … as it is their initiative that has led to the introduction of this important policy, which will reduce the appeal of …
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