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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Where the sun enters, the doctor does not

    … safe, secure homes with enough space to avoid crowding (a risk for infectious diseases such as rheumatic fever and … than children living in warm, dry homes .   Once a child is admitted to hospital, they are more likely to be … costs over the past 20 years** and children’s bedrooms, often south-facing, are frequently unheated . An evaluation …
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  • New standardised packaging regulations: Some good steps, but many missed opportunities

    … innovations. This blog discusses changes that establish a new benchmark and why these are important, but also … the length of brand names to no more than 50mm and specify a maximum font size (14 pt), while variant names are limited to 35mm and cannot use a font size larger than 10 pt. Tobacco companies may continue …
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  • Stubbing out democracy: no Government mandate for smokefree repeal

    … Smokefree Aotearoa goal. We assess whether this action has a mandate and legitimacy. Repeal of the legislation was not … products so these are no longer addictive, and introducing a ‘smokefree generation’ policy. The legislation is predicted … and equitable reductions in smoking prevalence . Repeal is a deliberate action that the government is fully aware will …
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  • Front-of-pack nutrition labels improve understanding but don’t improve healthy food choices; Starlight Trial just published

    … Health Star Rating and Traffic Light nutrition labels have a minor impact on New Zealand consumer healthy food choices, according to a randomised trial just published from our HRC-funded DIET … Information Panel label, although they appear useful for a subgroup of people who use labels a lot. Figure 2: Forest …
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  • Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change

    … water infrastructure in this disaster and find evidence of a low level of resilience. It is clear that both central and … Gisborne Napier had only ten hours of drinking water left after Cyclone Gabrielle hit the Hawke’s Bay region cutting … lifted for Whirinaki/Esk on 6 April, more than seven weeks after the cyclone hit. There were short-lived boil water …
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  • New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective

    … A New Zealand randomized trial of e-cigarettes just published … 5.8%.  The difference in percentage points was 1.51%, with a 95% confidence interval of -2.49% (yes, negative) to … we have a goal of a tobacco free New Zealand by 2025 – often interpreted as a prevalence less than 5%.  And we know …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey

    … or vaping may help to reduce smoking prevalence as a harm-reduced alternative to smoking for people who smoke … from the 2022/23 New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS). A previous Briefing provided similar information on smoking … in the 2016/17 survey.   Full details of the methods and a methodology report are available on the Ministry of Health …
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  • Media release: Severe domestic squalor in Aotearoa New Zealand: A preliminary survey

    … domestic squalor throughout Aotearoa NZ according to a preliminary survey of key agencies. In the latest Briefing … who led the research says severe domestic squalor most often refers to homes cluttered in rubbish, infested by … hostile attitudes, being older, and in many cases a stubborn refusal of help.” Dr Jarman says the responses …
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  • Junk food and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Likely to produce numerous benefits in NZ

    … Poor diet is a major risk factor for excess weight gain and … and colon).[1, 3, 5, 6] The global food system is also a driver of GHG emissions,[7] meaning changes in consumer … recommended taxation of unhealthy foods and beverages as a tool to address obesity and noncommunicable diseases in …
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  • Media release: New Zealand’s hungry teens four years behind in their learning - free school lunches provide solution

    … how many meals they had missed in the past 30 days due to a lack of money to buy food. The data showed that each week 14 in every 100 Kiwi students were missing a meal at least once, and 6.5 per cent were going without … than four times. "Students who missed meals even just once a week scored much lower than their peers who never went …
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