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  • Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes

    … New Zealanders continue to die every year from smoking and a persistence of associated health inequities.  Introduction … world-leading ‘endgame’ actions with the potential for a ripple effect that could greatly reduce the global … or non-addictive by reducing their nicotine content to a maximum of 0.8 mg/g; a reduction of over 90% compared to a …
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  • Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory

    … for electricity retailers mandatory to protect health. A new report shows up to 55% of residential consumers are not … their health. Those earlier guidelines were brought in after the tragic 2007 death of Mrs Folole Muliaga, who had … an electrically powered oxygen machine at home, and died after the electricity at her home was disconnected due to an …
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  • Red meat & processed meat: Summarising the Public Health isues

    … red meat. Here we briefly look at this topic and also take a wider perspective on other aspects of meat consumption on … in humans and strong mechanistic evidence supporting a carcinogenic effect. There is also evidence of associations … actually associated with cancer? Sir David Spiegelhalter, a risk professor at Cambridge University, summarised the …
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  • Reducing waiting times for cataract surgery is good value-for-money for falls prevention

    … to individual fallers’ risks help to prevent falls. A key risk factor is the presence of cataracts, and cataract … unaided visual acuity in 92% of cases. However, there are often substantial wait times for cataract surgery in the NZ … so that it does not impinge on public hospital capacity as often the same pool of surgeons is involved. However, we must …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … with dementia is expected to double in the next 20 years – a major health and economic issue. Since age is the biggest … change is only a very incomplete answer. These risks often begin early in life, are linked to social disadvantage, … and untreated depression. Secondly, factors that reduce cognitive reserve, the brain’s ability to tolerate damage: …
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  • Being Bolder – Public Health Endgames for NZ

    …   Southern saltmarsh mosquito: A disease vector successfully eliminated from NZ At the … Smokefree Nation Goal for 2025). This blog post provides a brief historical perspective and international perspective … (e.g., it has been eliminated in Iceland ). Campylobacter infection from fresh poultry. There has been substantial …
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  • Three Waters reforms are needed to protect public health and ensure changes are economically sustainable and efficient

    … an outcome of systemic flaws in Aotearoa New Zealand’s (A-NZ) regulatory system for drinking water, which were … reforming the waste, storm and drinking water systems in A-NZ. The final and most contentious aspect of the total … that 34,000 people get sick from drinking water in A-NZ each year. 6 Subsequent water quality reports also show …
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  • NZ compares well with other OECD countries in health & other areas: But scope for improvements

    … shown by the fact that it ranks among the top countries in a large number of topics in the “Better Life Index” [1]. What follows are a list of some of the specifics – both good and not so good. … a person approaches a pedestrian walkway and then turn off after they leave. [3] There is evidence for and against the …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … the reduction of preventable injuries that currently take a toll on hospital and health resources. These include those … health system. Hospital emergency departments (EDs) are a place where the results of health policy are seen most … who are injured. 6 NZ home injuries are much more likely after even light alcohol use. 7 How can we reduce …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey

    … analyses of the New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) revealed a steady decline in current and daily smoking prevalence from 2011/12 to 2019/20 with a greater rate of decline between 2019/20 and 2021/22. … and socio-economic status (SES) persisted. In addition, a substantial proportion of young people smoked in 2021/22.   …
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