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  • Does change in income and deprivation change your smoking risk? Yes, but in different directions.

    … groups are more likely to smoke.  But why?  Is it because of things like less education or more deprivation actually … moving from a neighbourhood with the least deprived fifth of New Zealanders to the most deprived fifth increased someone’s odds or chance of smoking by a large 83%. This increase in your chances of …
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  • BMI keeps on going up – and reflections on the Diabesity Symposium

    … increase in BMI is linear, relentless increasing; no sign of a plateau, yet. Given this trend, The Diabesity Crisis symposium just held in Auckland, under the auspices of the Better Start and Healthier Lives National Science … forthcoming research and policy priorities? The Ministry of Health has a very user friendly tool for accessing Health …
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  • The need for an expanded national smokefree law – just got more critical

    … A just released Judicial Review has opened up the question of how “open areas” of buildings (where smoking is permitted in New Zealand) are determined in practice. In this blog post we consider the implications of …
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  • Proposed vaping regulations for NZ: Strengths and limitations

    … minimising uptake by young people. Its proposed extension of prohibitions on advertising and sponsorship from tobacco … we discuss the provisions, as summarised in the Ministry of Health’s Factsheet , and outline important questions that … who wish to switch to vaping receive high quality, best-practice advice. Setting these standards would also establish …
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  • Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study

    … doing in response to the evidence.   The NZ Burden of Disease Study (NZBDS) reported that falls cause 10% of all the injury-related health loss in this country – in … aged 65 years or over, falls are the most common cause of injury-related health loss, and responsible for …
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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … health.  We will traverse the range from birth to end of life care and death, efficiency versus equity, learning … Myself and academic colleagues will blog about issues of the day, and issues that should be issues of the day.  We undertake to make this blog informative, …
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  • Meat, health, hospitals, and sustainability*

    … In this blog, I look at the case for reducing the amount of meat in hospital meals and gently remind our dietitian … colleagues not to let their dietary advice get out of date. Over-consumption of meat is costing us. Our health, our healthcare system, and …
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  • Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study

    … Yet there are interventions that can reduce the risk of falls. In this blog we examine some programme options. … in the programme, the health gains over the remainder of their lives would be 47,100 quality-adjusted life-years … 95% uncertainty interval [UI]: 22,300 to 74,400). In terms of “value-for-money”, the incremental cost-effectiveness …
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  • Energy poverty: The lowest-income households pay more in Aotearoa

    … to rise significantly from 2025, due to a combination of factors putting pressure on Aotearoa New Zealand’s … a critical public health concern. The health consequences of energy poverty cost the health system over $38 million per … households were affected.  Implications for policy and practice With increased pressures on cost of living after …
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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … Once a common practice, smoking prevalence has declined since its peak in … will need to address. Social norms govern many aspects of our everyday lives by defining what practices we view as … Similarly, social norms mean smoking with a group of workmates will be a very different experience to smoking …
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