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  • Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact

    … of yearly 10% tobacco tax increases for the years 2017 to 2020 inclusive. Using our peer-reviewed BODE 3 forecasting … additional four years of tax increases smoking prevalence in 2020 will be 21.4% for Māori and to 8.9% for non-Māori – compared to a projected 22.7% and …
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  • A National risks assessment should include pandemics and other global catastrophes

    … The Draft NZ National Security Long-term Insights Briefing (LTIB) has recently been produced … the NZ Government. In this blog we discuss its merits and how the process could be further advanced. In particular there is a need to: (i) improve future iterations of the public survey (eg, …
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  • A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’

    … In keeping with the issues covered in this week’s new book “ … Destruction “, we are calling for some smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’. In this blog, we discuss … meeting those standards of good practice. For example, how well is the New Zealand Government doing on protecting …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … While there is growing evidence that nitrates in drinking water are a risk factor for bowel cancer, there … mg/L NO3-N (from here on simply mg/L) in drinking water to bowel cancer have raised public concerns over nitrate … accelerated the rate of groundwater degradation. 11 How might nitrates be linked to adverse birth outcomes? The …
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  • Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study

    … (e.g., adding hand rails and removing tripping hazards in homes) appears to be a very cost-effective health sector intervention. But … even more cost-effective was targeting this intervention to older people with previous injurious falls. In this blog …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … Last week we introduced the concept of league tables to compare interventions. This week we provide a brief ‘user … launched BODE 3 Interactive League Table.  We walk through how to pull down tables and graphs of health gain … and cost effectiveness for 50+ interventions currently in the interactive league table. In our blog last week we …
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  • High regret among people who smoke reinforces strong support for smokefree legislation

    … explained why the coalition government has no mandate to repeal the smokefree legislation and outlined youth and … strong support for denicotinisation , large reductions in tobacco availability, and the smokefree generation policy. … important questions about who is shaping their policy. How can ACT justify a referendum on Te Tiriti o Waitangi …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Where the sun enters, the doctor does not

    … This blog looks at solutions in the housing sector: energy efficient heaters; reducing … series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly.   To keep well, everybody needs affordable, warm, dry, safe, …
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  • Study of NZ fruit & vegetable prices suggests markets best value-for-money

    … Food prices matter for determining access to healthy food – and so we studied fruit and vegetable prices in two NZ cities in this newly published article in PLOS ONE … distributors as well – so it may be good for the regional economy and for regional employment. Another approach is for …
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  • Communicating public health evidence – a successful first year for the PHCC

    … the work ahead. The PHCC has achieved its stated purpose to effectively communicate public health evidence. The … health equity ; Strategic directions, notably the need for long term thinking ; Improved interventions, including smoke … principles of public health ( The public health lens ) and how this perspective can make a tangible difference in the …
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