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  • BMI keeps on going up – and reflections on the Diabesity Symposium

    … in BMI is linear, relentless increasing; no sign of a plateau, yet. Given this trend, The Diabesity Crisis … research and policy priorities? The Ministry of Health has a very user friendly tool for accessing Health Survey data , … do they compare with past trends? There is nothing like a long time series to gain an understanding about …
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  • Does change in income and deprivation change your smoking risk? Yes, but in different directions.

    … followed over several years.  We found that moving from a neighbourhood with the least deprived fifth of New … fifth increased someone’s odds or chance of smoking by a large 83%. This increase in your chances of being a smoker … to help prevent both drinking and smoking as smoking is often a complementary activity to drinking, and adopting …
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  • A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development

    … ownership and private rental. Consequently Māori make up a significant proportion of public housing tenants. … New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities have developed A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model for Housing and … individual and group characteristics, with culture being a key factor. 1  This awareness has led to transformations in …
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  • Ten things we can learn from new smoking and vaping data about progress to Smokefree Aotearoa 2025

    … goal is not yet clear. Introduction This blog provides a summary of some key points from the 2018-19 NZ Health … to be achieved for Māori, and is likely to be missed by a very large margin. Figure 2: Daily smoking among Māori … in quit rates by ethnicity and socio-economic status. After some initial promising reductions in uptake among young …
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  • The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review

    … health impacts. Impact for military personnel who left NZ A summary of the health impacts for military personnel who … kept dying from war-related causes for many years after the end of the war. Such deaths were because of their … of military personnel from the whole war (including deaths after the armistice) 18,166 Still not counted in this total …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … and smoking cessation well-designed? We were involved in a study published in last Friday’s NZ Medical Journal that tried to answer that question from a NZ public health perspective. In this blog we discuss what … price signals (e.g., tobacco tax increases [2,3]) and a healthier food environment (prices, marketing controls, and …
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  • Good news on declining smoking rates, especially for Māori. Is it credible? What next?

    … what else could be done to accelerate progress towards a smokefree nation.   Statistics New Zealand has released … current smokers on Census night in March of 2013.  That is a fall in the absolute number of smokers of 22.6% since 2006 … growth in the adult population between censuses, that is a 24.4% fall (or a 4.4 percentage point fall) in the smoking …
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  • Wellbeing in public housing vs. private rentals: Quality and security make the difference

    … is higher. The evidence indicates that secure tenure is a factor in explaining why wellbeing of tenants is higher in … higher level of wellbeing in public housing is despite the often-severe hardships people face before securing their … instance, using GSS data,  Anastasiadis et al 1  show that after public housing placement, tenants experienced a …
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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … 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 … which we can access them, is also very important.  Nearly a century ago, Robert Woodruff, chairman of the Coca-Cola …
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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … even provide free mass treatment to middle age people with a sprinkling of aspirin and lipid lowering drugs – all in just one tablet a day.  So why don’t we do this? Many reasons, not least of … with absolute power.  And more substantively, we live in a society with social values that are not just about …
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