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  • Surviving winter: NZ’s journey through 145 years of seasonal survival – New study

    … Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) for a 145 year period (from 1876 to 2020). We found that the average age- and sex-standardised … Year-on-year variation in mortality rates reduced overall, but reduced less in winter than in the rest of the year. EWM … improvements such as retrofitting insulation in housing reduce hospitalisations and mortality. 2   3 Therefore we …
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  • A major new study on Kiwi health – can it inform decision-making?

    … emerging as the major modifiable risk factor with respect to disease burden.  It also raises questions as to how useful … if we are aiming to improve the overall health, and reduce inequalities in health, of New Zealanders. … heart disease, it is the latter that is clearly more important for policy consideration. Indeed, this is commonly …
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  • Alcohol and suicide: The facts

    … are alarmed about  incorrect and harmful statements to the contrary made by Mike King on Wednesday and  Thursday … recommends implementing public health policies to reduce alcohol use as part of a comprehensive approach to … countermeasures) can be effective at reducing youth suicide rates. 9 Another recent study found policies …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning

    … Associate Minister of Education, David Seymour wants to cut funding to the Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunch … interventions like Ka Ora, Ka Ako . This is particularly important for ākonga Māori, who make up half of the students … hardship and discussed ways to increase uptake and reduce food waste and food surplus. 2 We have interviewed …
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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … It is now time to reduce the number and density of retail outlets selling … among these, accessibility and visibility are particularly important.  Most of us will have purchased products on …
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  • Ready or not? Pandemic preparedness index and implications for NZ

    … This Briefing highlights how the world remains vulnerable to the persisting risk of pandemics. The Global Health … Zealand — which ranks 13th on the index— can continue to reduce its vulnerability to biothreats by using tools such as … strong Māori leadership, and address sociological factors important in pandemic outcomes. This new research emphasises …
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  • Action needed to halt New Zealand’s obesity epidemic: Themes from Big Food Symposium

    … health experts and delegates met on Monday this week to consider how to address New Zealand’s (NZ’s) increasing … banning junk food marketing to children, introducing a tax on fizzy drinks, introducing easy to understand … to climb. This blog explores some of these issues in more detail. The cost of overweight and obesity to the nation …
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  • Oral nicotine products: Expanding the nicotine marketplace

    … tobacco companies have diversified their nicotine products to include e-cigarettes (ECs) heated tobacco products (e.g., … does not promote transition from one product to another but aims to increase overall market size by attracting new … appealing flavours, come in attractive packages, feature youth-oriented brand names (e.g., ZYN, which has breed cult …
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  • Red meat & processed meat: Summarising the Public Health isues

    … data on red meat. Processed meat Processed meat refers to meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, … to diets high in processed meat (5) (ranked the 14 th most important risk factor for health loss in Australasia). An … Reductions of processed and red meat consumption would reduce such suffering overall as long as there wasn’t …
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  • Food taxes and subsidies will probably protect health & reduce inequalities – but the devil is in the detail

    … 20-odd food groups, low-income people and Māori tended to change their consumption of foods more in response to … These are genuinely difficult to estimate accurately, yet important.  For example, some (not all) international models … food labeling  and food reformulation (as done to reduce salt levels in NZ bread). This ‘careful packaging and …
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