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  • How might NZ expand community water fluoridation?

    … intelligence). The report discusses mild dental fluorosis as a potential downside of CWF, but notes that the occurrence … Councils for running CWF and to have a law requiring it as a default option (in all water supplies of 1000+ people). … role has been argued for by the NZ Medical Association [5], and in the editorial pages of various papers (eg, this …
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  • Smokefree cars legislation: Should the new government make this a priority?

    … exposed to smoking in cars at least once in the last week.[5] More generally, that suggests that over 100,000 children … when children are present. That support comes from smokers as well as non-smokers – in 2016, 89% of adult smokers surveyed …
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  • COVID-19 and the law in Aotearoa NZ

    … for which existing law was not specifically designed, as discussed in an early commentary from Dean Knight [1]. … replaced an earlier order and has largely the same effect as its predecessor, but has more details. For example, it … may only be made while an epidemic notice under section 5 of the Epidemic Preparedness Act 2006 is in force for …
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  • Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking

    … analyses (often researchers analyse longitudinal data as though it is repeated cross-sectional data, failing to … and analyses of time varying exposures and confounders 4 5 ) big data and the opportunities with machine learning 6-8 … need to seriously upskill the workforce.  Two of us (TB, AS) are facilitating international researchers visiting to …
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  • A new review on dietary fats: Putting its findings in context

    … the latter ideally being long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (as found in fish, flax seed and nuts). The issue of whether … omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (measured as intake biomarkers) on CHD outcomes and this new review … were reported. Jakobsen et al found that substitution of 5% of energy from saturated fat with 5% of energy from …
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  • Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact

    … developed and published on a tobacco forecasting model (4,5). Running this model for the newly proposed programme of … – see Figure 1 ). Assuming a continuation of ‘business-as-usual’ patterns in smoking uptake and cessation … of the world’s leaders in using this particular measure as a tobacco endgame strategy. Nevertheless, Australia has …
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  • Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study

    … concluded that they reduced the rate of falls by 19% (5). Given this evidence base, HSAM is recommended by the … GDP per capita level of NZ$45,000 that we typically use as a rough threshold in our modelling work, and recommended by WHO as a rough guide). But targeting HSAM only to people aged 65+ …
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  • We need rapid progress on digital solutions to help eliminate COVID-19 from New Zealand

    … people for legally enforceable control measures such as contact tracing and quarantine (with a correspondingly … other personal and population health actions such as early detection, diagnosis and surveillance. Digital … governments’ capacities to conduct manual contact tracing (5). Existing contact tracing practices are resource …
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  • Food taxes and subsidies will probably protect health & reduce inequalities – but the devil is in the detail

    … and data about price impacts for other consumer goods such as tobacco. This suggests – but does not prove for reasons we … best input data and then to push and poke our models from as many angles as possible.  For example, we will be more confident that a …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … Summary As Aotearoa New Zealand's population ages, the number of … could be prevented by tackling 14 key risk factors, such as smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, and lack of … factors compared to those used by the Lancet Commission. 5     Figure 2: Dementia prevention potential in Aotearoa New …
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