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  • Fighting cold, damp housing – a big tick for Warmer Kiwi programme

    … in warmer, drier living areas in winter, and can help to lower respiratory illness. Motu Research has evaluated the … affects Māori and Pacific peoples. Hospitalisation rates from respiratory illness are much higher for Pacific peoples … favour of subsidising heat pumps for low-income families. How heat pumps improve people’s health The housing stock in …
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  • An open letter to Cabinet Ministers from 74 health professors calling for a sugary drinks tax

    … under 8 years old require general anaesthetic operations to remove rotten teeth (1). We applaud the government for … last year with no extra funding, is not sufficient to change current trends. We urge you to implement a … change the consumption of tobacco and alcohol and evidence from over 50 studies in the published literature suggests the …
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  • Lessons From history: Helping New Zealand prepare for future influenza pandemics

    … on this NZ troopship (the Tahiti) may have contributed to a particularly severe outbreak during the 1918 influenza … are important but relatively rare so the lessons learned from such events may not be available when they are most … still much to learn from this unusually severe event and how country-level pandemic preparedness and control plans …
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  • A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’

    … 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 children from junk food marketing compared to, say Sweden or Norway, …
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  • Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data

    … introduce an interactive online tool that enables anyone from researchers, policy-makers, journalists and health practitioners to access high quality data on these vital, population-level … motivation for developing the Data Explorer and outline how some of our key research findings can be identified using …
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  • The need for an expanded national smokefree law – just got more critical

    … released Judicial Review has opened up the question of how “open areas” of buildings (where smoking is permitted in … on smokefree areas. This Judicial Review was in response to an application for a review of the “Open Area Calculator” … smoking there cannot be prevented, as there is no known safe level of tobacco smoke. We argue that it would be much …
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  • NZ Health Survey data released today reinforce Smokefree Legislation is crucial to reduce smoking inequities

    … data for 2022/2023 show that smoking prevalence continues to decrease however very substantial inequities in smoking remain. Māori continue to bear a much heavier burden of harm from smoking than non-Māori University of Otago researchers …
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  • Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic

    … – sales now subject of stringent regulation – in contrast to tobacco and alcohol The Psychoactive Substances Act, which … importance may not be the modest health gains that result from controlling the availability of party pills. Rather its … and alcohol from the legislation? Focusing on tobacco, how are these products, that kill around five thousand New …
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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 … that prices were generally lower at markets compared to supermarkets (with a family of four potentially saving up to $49 per week by buying at markets compared to from a supermarket). We also consider what else that central …
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  • Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?

    … But no one has previously looked systematically at how NZ cities support cycling and walking. Therefore, a new … as Amsterdam and Berlin, are exciting and dynamic places to live. The other benefits of ‘active transport’ (i.e. … these areas. The key outputs are who cycles and walks, how safe it is, and how healthy the populations of each city are. …
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