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  • Public Health at the Movies: A Selection of 35 Top Movies

    … DVDs of all these movies have been made freely available to students and staff from our medical school library … Played On remains a great movie and it shows many of the important aspects of how a society grapples with an emerging … most informative documentaries are Fed Up and Food, Inc. but Super Size Me is certainly the most entertaining movie on …
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  • Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data

    … policy-makers, journalists and health practitioners to access high quality data on these vital, population-level … to gain access to the main trends. To bring this important data closer to users we have developed a … the drop down menu at the bottom of the screen shot (all steps circled in red). These selections produce the graph …
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  • BMI keeps on going up – and reflections on the Diabesity Symposium

    … we present trends in BMI by ethnicity in NZ going back to the 1980s. Over the last four decades the annual increase … over the last 10 years for both Māori and European/Other. But are these increases slowing? And how do they compare with … Evidence that intense early childhood interventions can reduce child obesity – but as soon as the intervention stops, …
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  • Media release: Aotearoa NZ is on the brink of a measles epidemic: Urgent action needed

    … Aotearoa NZ is on the brink of a measles epidemic because of falling immunisation rates, … gaps, and an increasing risk of imported cases according to public health experts. In the latest Briefing from the … and potentially deaths. Professor Baker says urgent steps are needed to catch up those who have missed out on …
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  • Young New Zealanders want a tobacco-free future - new research

    … Summary The new coalition government’s plan to repeal Aotearoa’s world-leading smokefree law flies in the … survey conducted in Aotearoa in August-September 2023. A storm of protest has erupted following the announcement … impacts on the black market .   The survey The ITC Youth & Youth Adult Survey is an annual multi-country survey …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: Are they worth investing in?

    … ongoing funding for the programme; identifying ways to expand the programme so that all children in Aotearoa New Zealand will benefit; undertaking a formal cost-effectiveness study; and building in more … poor) for each criterion was made by the research team but has yet to be validated by stakeholders. We present these …
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  • Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?

    … stream have estimated the health effects of access to features of the built environment, including access to: … retail outlets is thought to facilitate smoking uptake in youth and to reduce (the success) of smoking cessation in adults (4-6). In …
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  • The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review

    … abstracted from them should make it easier for researchers to fill these knowledge gaps in coming years. According to … training camps from the influenza pandemic in 1918, but also for conditions such as meningitis. For civilians, … grief was widespread and modern research has also shown an important increased mortality risk from the shock of being …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … is growing evidence that nitrates in drinking water are a risk factor for bowel cancer, there is also emerging … mg/L NO3-N (from here on simply mg/L) in drinking water to bowel cancer have raised public concerns over nitrate … bowel cancer, with most showing an association at one or more exposure thresholds. 2,3,17-25   While there is some …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Public policy options to address alcohol-related harm in Aotearoa

    … This blog looks at solutions to reducing alcohol-related harm through policies on alcohol … s eries looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly .   One in 20 deaths in … (eg, supermarkets or liquor stores) are from 7am to 11pm, a total of 112 hours per week and we have around 63 outlets …
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