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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … there is growing evidence that nitrates in drinking water are a risk factor for bowel cancer, there is also emerging … evidence and puts it into a NZ context. Nitrate is one of the most common drinking water contaminants in NZ, largely … age, low birth weight and preterm births. 6-10 However, what differentiates these two new studies from previous …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … standardised, or plain, packages. In this blog, we discuss the importance of developing an on-going monitoring and … Introducing new smokefree measures is crucial if we are to achieve the 2025 goal; however, evaluating these … best practice with thoroughly evaluating these. So, what could the New Zealand Government do to assess the impact …
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  • Being Bolder – Public Health Endgames for NZ

    … A disease vector successfully eliminated from NZ At the Public Health Congress in Auckland last week, one of us … on public health-related endgames. It also considers what additional endgames this country could be bolder about … or need for smallpox vaccination). A few other diseases are on the cusp of global eradication. For polio it is just …
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  • What can Aotearoa NZ learn from Australia’s new vaping policies?

    … illegal supply of vapes has seen youth vaping rise. The Australian Minister of Health, Mark Butler, this week … them from a marketing environment where vaping products are very appealing, very affordable, and very accessible. … well people who do, and should be regulatory priorities. What is new in this Briefing Australia has announced new …
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  • Adaptation important but don’t give up on mitigation—what the new IPCC report means for Aotearoa

    … Summary The latest report from the IPCC finds extreme weather events are more common and more severe than in the past, and that … to global heating by 2100 that may be three times or more what we have seen so far. In this scenario, recent storms and …
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  • A pandemic that won’t go away – as Covid enters its 5th year, NZ needs a realistic strategy

    … to expectations and adapt accordingly. Evolving variants are driving ongoing waves of infection, prolonging the pandemic's impact. It remains a leading cause of … a Creative Commons license. Read the  original article . What is new in this Briefing Previous pandemics have not …
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  • Junk food and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Likely to produce numerous benefits in NZ

    … we summarise our recent modelling work that suggests that the implementation of taxes on unhealthy foods and beverages … epidemic.[1-4] Moreover, both poor diet and obesity are major risk factors for noncommunicable diseases, … Table 1 . Details of tax packages selected for inclusion What level of benefits does the new NZ modelling show? Our …
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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?

    … health conditions such as diabetes, is highly topical. The World Health Organization has recently announced that we … resistance. But I’m not a mouse However, mice and humans are obviously not the same. For starters, the average mouse … and waist circumference (-0.83 cm; 95% CI -1.29 to -0.37). What about safety? If you take the evidence from the review …
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  • Surviving winter: NZ’s journey through 145 years of seasonal survival – New study

    … for a 145 year period (from 1876 to 2020). We found that the average age- and sex-standardised EWM Index (EWMI) … continuing efforts to investigate the public health benefits of improving housing standards and reducing seasonal … describe trends and changes in EWM in NZ, and to explore what factors might have contributed to those changes. Our …
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  • Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive

    …   The fact we are living longer is well-known, as witnessed by … a book later this year ( The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in New Zealand ; AUP) that looks in depth … rates will rise again as the obesity epidemic takes hold; what is more likely is that the obesity epidemic will slow …
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