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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … Credit is owed to political leadership, science advisors, health workers, iwi [3], and indeed the whole “Team of 5 … have occurred (see Table 1). In contrast, the Ministry of Health avoids the term “border failure” but rather details … [7]. Unfortunately, that report from the Ministry of Health, which received wide media coverage, underestimated …
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  • Does change in income and deprivation change your smoking risk? Yes, but in different directions.

    … improvement in social circumstances will always improve health – it doesn’t. The study we used was better able to … out of work (perhaps due to people moving out of work for health reasons). Changing social circumstances did not really … Richards Edwards – he will be blogging more on this at Public Health Expert soon. The research was conducted on …
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  • Youth vaping addiction: How it happens and why it matters

    … harm. The Government should assist schools to take a health approach to youth vaping, and fund youth-specific … more vulnerable to addiction than adults. Implications for public health policy and practice Harm from vaping and … , highlighting challenges and opportunities in the public health policy space. … Youth vaping addiction: How it …
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  • New Zealand can lead the world in tobacco control: Plain packaging 2.0

    … impactful warning compared to a plain pack with a strong health warning. Evidence that this particular group was less … Initially introduced to increase smokers’ awareness of the health risks smoking causes, new evidence suggests health warnings lack salience for some smoker groups, …
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  • Media release: Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution predicted

    … according to experts.  In  the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre the University of Canterbury’s … Angela Curl of the University of Otago, have examined the health impacts of raising speed limits. They say the …
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  • Do Aotearoa’s new vaping regulations go far enough?

    … day (data were not reported by ethnicity). Analyses of NZ Health survey data show that current (at least monthly) use … variety, and vape product packaging. Implications for public health policy Reducing youth vaping will require a … but, as yet, are an incomplete response to a major public health problem. Author details Professor Janet Hoek , …
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  • Should you swap sugar for artificial sweetener? Maybe not if you’re a mouse, but what if you’re a human?

    … impact on dental caries, body weight, and other long-term health conditions such as diabetes, is highly topical. The World Health Organization has recently announced that we should … least can lead to the aforementioned undesirable long term health conditions. To see whether the gut bacteria of the …
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  • Highlights of the World Conference on Tobacco or Health

    … The 16 th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCToH) has just been held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab … for a clear and comprehensive government tobacco control plan if endgame goals are to be achieved. This was a key … substantial; There are some methodological challenges for public health research into ANDs, particularly regarding …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … from Monsanto; and 5) the EPA ignored the Ministry of Health which notified the Authority it could not support the … We are not aware of any reports that are available in the public realm. Was the information on exposure and doses … Prof Andrea t’Mannetje - Massey University’s Centre for Public Health Research (CPHR). Dr Dave McLean - Senior …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … need to know how much of ethnic inequalities in health are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco smoking, … by as much. “How much of ethnic inequalities in health are due to socioeconomic position?” And “How much are … inequalities; there will be pathways from ethnicity to health that do not go through socioeconomic position (e.g. …
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