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  • Evidence for free school lunches: Are they worth investing in?

    … used and how much value is created. 1 We gathered inputs from community and government stakeholders to identify what value they expect the programme to produce. From this value proposition, we created 21 criteria in five … primary outcomes. Students who previously had insufficient food, reported on average feeling 20% fuller after lunch than …
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  • The case for denicotinising tobacco in Aotearoa NZ remains strong: response to online critique

    … The key criticism – that we relied mainly on evidence from a single randomised controlled trial (RCT) of very low … Health commissioned a more sophisticated modelling study from researchers at the University of Melbourne. This … this study. The first output of the study, with co-authors from the University of Otago, was a report in January 2022 to …
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  • The changing COVID-19 situation in Taiwan – what can NZ learn from Taiwan’s latest outbreak?

    … a recent surge of community cases in northern Taiwan from April 2021 onwards has resulted in an increasing … believe the Government needs to consider. Taiwan learned from its experiences with SARS in 2003 and developed a … cause in Wuhan. Taiwan started screening passengers from Wuhan immediately and implemented comprehensive contact …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning

    … absence of direct impact evaluation, we present findings from three large-scale international studies, describing the … Zealand and achievement, linking this back to the need for food poverty interventions like Ka Ora, Ka Ako . This is … amounts of data exist. Earlier this month we revealed data from the Programme for International Student Assessment …
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  • New e-liquid flavour restrictions: Potential impacts on young people and people who smoke

    … From tomorrow (11 August 2021), Aotearoa New Zealand’s … outlets to sell diverse flavours could foster switching from smoking to ENDS use and accelerate progress towards the … principals’ concerns and show rising ENDS use; data from the 2019 ASH Y10 survey of 14-15 year olds revealed that …
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  • The strong case for mask requirements in public transportation and border control settings in NZ’s current COVID-19 pandemic context

    … In this blog we identify six likely benefits from requiring fabric mask use in public transportation and … available. However, there is significant indirect evidence from natural experiments occurring within mask-wearing … coughing into elbows are also not based on extensive data from high quality RCTs, but on a collection of imperfect …
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  • The high burden from mental health disorders – but also an opportunity for cost-effective interventions

    … contribution to knowledge about health problems and come from a massive international research project. The results … steps needed to prevent and treat the high health burden from mental and substance use disorders. Actually, from the New Zealand perspective, these international …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … Summary This blog summarises findings from people who smoke or have recently quit smoking and who participated in the ITC New Zealand project from 2016-2021. The blog documents attitudes towards smoking … wave 3 survey was completed online. We present findings from the first two waves (emphasising W2 where available) and …
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  • Update on Long-COVID

    … to the Conclusions Section. Photo by  Andrea Piacquadio  from  Pexels Long-COVID may be unique in the annals of … of infection with SARS-CoV-2 does not end with discharge from hospital, with the disappearance of the virus, or with … as evidenced by history of hospitalisation varying from none to all; and c) by the timing of measurement or …
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  • Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023

    … on the priority prevention for tobacco, alcohol, unhealthy food and public health infrastructure has found generally the … pointing to the savings in lives and health dollars from prevention measures. These three harmful products are … developed its top prevention priorities for reducing harm from tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food and strengthening …
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