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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … Welcome to this Public Health Expert Blog. This blog is going to … else), I guarantee you that I could make life expectancy in New Zealand the best in the world within ten years.  … a look at PHARMAC’s consultation . … Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision …
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  • Patterns of declining smoking in NZ – But more action needed by the New Government

    … reasons for these trends and describe recent work on how progress could be accelerated. Just published results … the Appendix). These downward patterns are consistent with long-term trend data from other sources such as the Census [1] and declining cigarette sales data. We plan to do more detailed analyses of these trends and update our …
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  • Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

    … people are disproportionately impacted by homelessness. To address this, we need to understand their upstream … the necessity of survival restricting agency; and the long-term effect of concealing identities and coping with … “issue,” it is important to also look upstream to explore how the phenomenon can be prevented in the first place. …
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  • Smokefree Laws: Reducing tobacco outlets will decrease crime

    …   Summary Government spokespeople have failed to provide either evidence or logic to justify the repeal of world-leading smokefree legislation. … targeting tobacco products, a claim based on anecdote. In this Briefing, we examine police data on ram raids, which …
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  • The cost burden of excess weight in New Zealand: Sizing up a new report

    … care costs and population size, so it is very valuable to have some up-to-date data on the costs of overweight and … what the studies on the 1991 and 2006 data did (this is a long, laborious task). Instead, Sapere used a number of … use Population Attributable Fractions that estimate how much of the main obesity-related diseases (in this …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Improving the cost, composition and availability of foods can save lives

    … This blog looks at solutions in the food system: reducing the cost and increasing the … series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. Improving population … solutions that can improve diets of all New Zealanders. Long-term, we know that quick solutions need to be part of a …
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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, … highest category of strength of evidence (see Figure), but how strongly is processed meat actually associated with … meat consumption would reduce such suffering overall as long as there wasn’t complete substitution onto poultry. It …
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  • Market deregulation → ↑ fast food consumption → ↑ obesity. Clever international study that includes NZ data

    … the Bulletin of the World Health Organization has analyzed how changes in fast food transactions per capita within 25 … per year was exactly that observed for NZ during the 1999 to 2008 period covered by this study. The study also suggests … wants to have a healthier population, and protect the long-term financial viability of its publicly funded health …
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  • From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for COVID-19

    … Australia owes a debt of gratitude to its pandemic modellers, public health officials and … but we have to stay in this state of near-lockdown for as long as it takes to get a vaccine. Anyone who has … Otago colleagues in Wellington.   … From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for …
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  • Charting our way back to normal

    … A new web tool, COVID-19 Pandemic Trade-offs, allows people to weigh the costs and benefits of different policy responses … COVID-19 question this year is – “When can we get back to normal?” Or more pessimistically, “Will we ever get back … know, and only time will tell. Moreover, we are privileged in Australasia to have little-to-zero community transmission, …
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