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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 … the final Act should address. The Bill brings the prospect of some welcome clarity about the regulation of vaping …
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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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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … as its impact will be more long term.   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective … and cultural wellbeing of Māori , constraining their development aspirations and opportunities .    Most health … interventions have a strong basis in evidence, logic and theory. Relying on these strong foundations means there is …
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  • Proposed Emissions Reduction Plan: A weak response to a weak target

    … emissions trading and technological advances, the latter of which are highly speculative and uncertain. Even if the … reducing emissions in the first place. 6 After 40 years of development, few CCS projects exist globally and storage of … University of Otago Prof Ralph Sims, Emeritus Professor of Sustainable Energy and Climate Mitigation at Massey. Prof …
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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 … practice. In this blog post we consider the implications of this ruling and why it heightens the need for an expanded …
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  • Food taxes and subsidies will probably protect health & reduce inequalities – but the devil is in the detail

    … in the last few weeks on food taxes and subsidies – both of which depend on what are called price elasticities.  Timely, in light of the launch last week of Appetite for Destruction that is … release here ).  This is entirely consistent with economic theory – and data about price impacts for other consumer …
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  • Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive

    … a book later this year ( The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in New Zealand ; AUP) that looks in depth at the fascinating story of mortality decline in New Zealand. The path to low … by looking at some data just released by the Ministry of Health on trends since 1945 in cause-specific mortality. …
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  • What the fizz! A week of dealing to sugary drinks in NY and NZ

    … A curious week in the world of soft drinks. The surprising darling of public health action on soft drinks, New York, suffered a … health board had gone too far in stopping sales of non-diet soda and other sugar-laden beverages in …
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  • Worth its weight: Building insulation in New Zealand

    … that the NZ Government is still undervaluing the benefits of building performance and insulation standards. This is … and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Minister of Building and Housing is arguing against improving building performance. He suggests that the health benefits of improving insulation in rental housing from 1978 standards …
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  • Warmest New Zealand winter ever recorded – The Government should do more on climate change

    … to the 1860s ( full report ). This is good news in lots of ways. Warmer winters mean more comfort, more time … may become more common with climate change in some parts of NZ But fundamentally the changing seasons for New Zealand and elsewhere are symptomatic of an extremely serious problem, that of global climate …
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