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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … teaching epidemiological methods to improve the quality and causal inference of our research – more of that below.  … energy intake (a good move – see footnotes below again), or simple carbohydrates (particularly sugar) and high salt … fats (PUFA). The evidence is fairly strong: 1)    A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials with …
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  • Energy poverty: The lowest-income households pay more in Aotearoa

    … countries means we use more electric heating to keep warm and healthy over winter.  The evidence shows that those who … Energy poverty, when households are unable to afford or access sufficient energy to meet their needs at home, … million per year due to cold, damp, and mouldy housing. 1 As well as causing harm to physical health, energy poverty …
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  • Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?

    … We have just published research on the health gains and cost-savings from various legally mandated restrictions … including access to: alcohol outlets and harmful drinking (1), parks and obesity (2), gambling outlets and behaviours … the nearest retailer. Restrictions in the number, location or density of retailers could be mandated by law through …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … Are smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation well-designed? We were involved in a … health perspective. In this blog we discuss what we found and its implications for ‘what next’ for using these new … are the two leading risk factors leading to health loss [1]. The key ways to address these are probably price signals …
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  • Young New Zealanders want a tobacco-free future - new research

    … from those who will ultimately be most affected -─ teens and young adults. In this Briefing we report these new … illegal to sell smoked tobacco products to people born on or after 1 January 2009. New research  New research released today , …
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  • Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls

    … In a just published study (and accompanying evaluation summary and media release ), we … a vaccination programme against HPV infection in 2008 [1]. After various catch-up phases, vaccination has been … since 2011. It is offered through schools (in year 8) or through primary care (age 12 to 20 years). Young women …
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  • A 100 years ago today a death ship from NZ arrived in Samoa: A reminder of NZ’s responsibilities to its South Pacific neighbours

    … the influenza pandemic from NZ to Western Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji. Thanks to the Rt Hon Helen Clark, there has been an … of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the Pacific region [1], reported that: “In November 1918, the tramp steamer SS … of novel pathogens which could be released accidentally or deliberately as bioterrorist weapons [10]. What should the …
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  • Glass half full: Alcohol’s health benefits for cardiovascular disease still controversial, and likely vary by context

    … understanding of a ‘J-shape’ association of alcohol and death rates. Then we look at a recent (and likely … net effect of alcohol consumption on population health, or death rates here, depends also on how the population is … use was estimated to have also prevented 15,400 DALYs (1.6%) through its protective effect against: coronary heart …
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  • (Un)licensed to kill: do we need to regulate how tobacco is sold?

    … supply policies (both published in the NZ Medical Journal, 1 April 2016). This blog overviews the findings in both articles and explains how stronger tobacco supply policies would … availability of a drug, we increase its ‘full cost’, or the time and effort required to obtain it, thus …
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  • Why do so many fear the bicycle?

    … (the bike is shunted, literally, to the side of the road), and how this might be changed.   “It is too dangerous” is the … 2013). About half of New Zealand households own one or more bikes in good working condition, and most trips in the city are relatively short, but only 1-2% of those trips are made by bike (Ministry of Transport …
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