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A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’
… an ‘appetite for health’. In this blog, we discuss what a new network of university researchers and NGOs are … in New Zealand and internationally. If we want to pave a clear way towards creating appetite for health through the … to address the key aspects of food environments that can be influenced by governments to create readily …
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Media release: Unaffordable home heating increases risk of severe mental distress
… Finding yourself unable to adequately heat your home can not only lead to poor physical health but can also increase the risk of severe mental health distress, … are lessons for Aotearoa New Zealand. Dr O’Sullivan says a UK study using data from a large longitudinal study focused …
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Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?
… at how NZ cities support cycling and walking. Therefore, a new study has been performed and is now published online. … to health from inactivity-related conditions, such as high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes. In all cities studied, … so progress towards more liveable and healthy cities can be clearly monitored. … Cycling and walking in six NZ …
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Climate change and cherry blossom
… 11 (Human Health) in the 5 th IPCC Assessment Report. A commentary on the full chapter is available at the Lancet. … This was to mark Earth Hour, the mass event intended to show support for global environmental issues. Fortuitous, … Convention Centre were turned on again at 9.30 pm, but for a while it looked as though this was not the favourable omen …
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The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not
… Act : Limiting the number of retail outlets where tobacco can be sold from around 6000 to no more than 600; … and tobacco to non-addictive levels, and Introducing a smokefree generation, by making it illegal to sell tobacco … with the evidence. Analyses of discarded cigarette packs show that the proportion of foreign packs (i.e., those …
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Media release: A call for strong leadership to reduce NZ’s dangerously high antibiotic use
… Healthcare leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand must take a stronger lead on reducing high rates of antibiotic … patients with conditions in which antibiotics do provide a health benefit.” While Te Whatu Ora and the Royal New … past time for Te Whatu Ora and the RNZCGP to encourage a significant reduction in antibiotic prescribing.” …. …
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Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?
… we briefly consider the results and put the findings in a wider context of how New Zealand might reach its Smokefree … ~6000 retailers nationally (see previous blog for a map) and an average travel time of just over 3 minutes from … cost impacts (via travel time and travel costs) work in a similar way as do price increases (via tobacco taxes). …
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Media release: Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable
… There’s a disconnect between the Government’s decision to move ahead … he says. Research shows that reducing speed limits can lower the severity and frequency of accidents, with cities like Toronto experiencing a 28% reduction in pedestrian-vehicle collisions at lower …
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… and the community. There are multiple areas where Aotearoa can benefit from evidence about how to build a healthy, equitable, and sustainable society. New research can improve how we respond to future pandemics, climate …
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Media release: Money down the drain - The high cost of leaking water pipes
… could be costing the country upwards of $122 million a year according to public health researchers. In the latest … of reticulated water from leaky pipes. In some centres it can be far more than this, around 40 to 50%, as in … water with microbes.” Studies from the United States show that there can be disease outbreaks with deaths when …
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