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New proposals to limit youth vaping from Labour: Do they go far enough?
… within existing legislation, and reducing the visibility of vaping products. In this briefing, we review vaping … estimate disguises troubling inequities: more than 20% of Y10 Māori students, and over 25% of Y10 young Māori females reported daily vaping. The …
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Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected
… gas emissions. The evidence suggests that the benefits of estimated time savings are overstated and don’t always improve economic productivity. The health impacts of raising speed limits are likely to be significant and … authorities have reduced urban speed limits across many of our cities, and expressed strong support for continuing …
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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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Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax
… Associate Professor Nick Wilson, University of Otago Wellington An article we published last week generated plenty of debate [1] (some thoughtful, some distortionary), and in … saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats to prevent heart attacks and strokes and tried to put the results in the …
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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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Proposals to reduce youth vaping: Important steps but a more comprehensive approach needed
… As part of the consultation process to denicotinise cigarettes and reduce the number of stores selling tobacco, Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall has outlined proposals to …
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A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’
… for health’. In this blog, we discuss what a new network of university researchers and NGOs are developing to get us on the road to implementation of smart food policies in New Zealand and internationally. If … the policies which will improve access and availability of healthy diets at affordable prices. These solutions seem …
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Market deregulation → ↑ fast food consumption → ↑ obesity. Clever international study that includes NZ data
… Blakely. A clever study just published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization has analyzed how changes in … driver of the obesity epidemic. That is, a market failure – if you believe that increasing obesity rates is not … society is generally concerned about obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. It is also concerned about the …
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Media release: New Zealand urged to boost pandemic preparedness as bird flu spreads in US cattle
… threat posed by the Influenza A(H5N1) virus. This strain of what is commonly known as ‘bird flu’ has sparked concerns … transmission, its ability to infect a broader range of animals raises alarms for potential future mutations. This … enhance its pandemic response strategies, say the authors of a new Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre …
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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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