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  • Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic

    … public. However, its real importance may not be the modest health gains that result from controlling the availability of … hazardous products with a much greater impact on public health. Consider this new law in more detail. A key principle …
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  • Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones

    … and steel production, military operations, and health care (for details see: 6 7 ). In contrast to envisaging … counterfactual” analysis. Implications for public health policy This type of analysis could be repeated for …
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  • A 100 years ago today – the likely first NZ death from the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … highlight the importance of continuing to invest in public health infrastructure and pandemic preparedness and planning. … photo below and this blog ). Good organisation of nursing care and basic support in cities such as Christchurch may … salt in processed foods [19-21]). Strengthening public health capacity of the Ministry of Health – which has been …
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  • The marked decline of sudden mass fatality events in NZ (1900 to 2015)

    … there is a need to put these in a wider context of health loss for the country. For example, if these premature … This suggests that addressing the major causes of health loss in NZ (eg, from the obesity epidemic and the … ideally, factored into such comparisons should also be non-health variables; eg, events like earthquakes can also …
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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 … of interest; 2) the implications of the Ministry of Health’s lack of confidence in EPA’s processes – see page 181 … t’Mannetje - Massey University’s Centre for Public Health Research (CPHR). Dr Dave McLean - Senior Research …
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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: counterarguments to industry claims

    … of outlets selling tobacco is likely to improve population health and decrease health inequities by reducing smoking uptake and creating … Bath. JH, RE, GT are members of the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago Wellington. LM is based in …
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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … risk than Aucklanders wastes limited MIQ space. Public health would be better served by having those rooms available … strategy (ie, to minimise the impact of Covid-19 on public health and keep the case load from overwhelming the … : Lesley Gray is with the Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington. …
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  • Market deregulation → ↑ fast food consumption → ↑ obesity. Clever international study that includes NZ data

    … A clever study just published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization has analyzed how changes in fast food … impact of chronic disease burdens on the tax-payer funded health system. So what are some of the intervention options … most notably a tax on sugary drinks (see other Public Health Expert blog posts). Some will view these measures as …
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  • Illicit tobacco trade and the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: Arguments and evidence

    … and increasing quitting [1]. To ensure life-saving public health policies achieve their intended goal, illicit tobacco … (p.10). These comments imply associations between public health measures and illicit trade, yet, globally, tobacco … JH, RE and NW are members of the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago Wellington. All authors …
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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … that diet and the association of saturated fat with health is not complex, not nuanced, and does not vary over … disease and stroke.  But the effect of saturated fat on health will vary by things like: the ratio of polyunsaturated … we generally thought increasing HDL caused better heart health, and justified our drinking of a little alcohol each …
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