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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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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Good health in childhood is vital for lifelong wellbeing: time for a preventive approach

    … action on childhood immunisation .   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective … health system struggled with persistently high rates of preventable hospitalisations, ill-health, and large health … too low to provide a strong foundation for healthy development. Children need adequate living standards to …
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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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  • 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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  • Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax

    … Associate Professor Nick Wilson, University of Otago Wellington An article we published last week … That is livestock agribusiness is not currently sustainable in terms of greenhouse gas production, water … New Zealand should strive to be a leader in research and development that does all of: maintaining our competitive …
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  • Beyond unhelpful dichotomies: a co-regulatory approach to protecting children from junk food marketing

    … It is a good time to reflect not only on the content of those approaches, but also the regulatory frameworks for … approach that could be applied to the strengthening of junk food marketing restrictions to children.   “Black and … and you’ve got a shiny example of a co-regulatory development process. Drawing on my research about FoPL …
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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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  • 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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