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Media release: Insulation matters - The evidence for keeping our improved Building Code standards
… Dr Lucy Telfar-Barnard and co-authors lay out the evidence for retaining hard-won improvements to the Building Code. … consultation. There was almost universal support for the increased standards. Increasing the thickness of … the UK. … Media release: Insulation matters - The evidence for keeping our improved Building Code standards …
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New proposals to limit youth vaping from Labour: Do they go far enough?
… young people’s knowledge, holds them responsible for succumbing to highly addictive products that deliberately … successfully from smoking to vaping. Increased penalties for selling vapes to minors and greater funding to support … stores. We recommend penalties include a low threshold for permanent withdrawal of licences. The Factsheet did not …
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Watch this space – The Public Health Communication Centre launches soon
… the successful Public Health Expert Blog which has run for over a decade.) The Briefing is public health expert … election year. They will look at areas such as planning for the long game in public health, eliminating Māori health inequities, and ensuring safe drinking water for all New Zealanders. Subscribe below and watch this space. …
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A policy and research agenda for roll-your-own tobacco
… that tobacco companies manipulate excise tax increases, for example, by applying these differentially to premium … attribute has also contributed to unappealing stereotypes. For example, some studies report descriptions of RYO users as … practices and develop interventions that disrupt these. For example, packaging of RYO rolling papers and filters …
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The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos
… products were harmful and often fatal, and to compensate for smoking’s loss of social acceptability, 4 tobacco … new budget and super-budget brands that now account for an increasing proportion of tobacco consumption . 9 These … indicate that Chesterfield Leaf retails at NZ$26.90 for a pack of 20 sticks, three dollars cheaper than …
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Media release: Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream
… drinking water standards, the regulator responsible for protecting drinking water sources, Environment Canterbury … and ratepayers—who were not responsible for creating the problem but must now pay for it,” she says. “ECan must demonstrate to its communities …
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Increasing whooping cough cases put pēpi at risk. What can be done about it?
… with large ethnic inequities (68% and 28% coverage for Asian and Māori respectively). 11 We’re also … able to receive a 6-week health check, pre-call and recall for future immunisations, and other health needs. 28 Work … LMC within routine antenatal appointments Implications for policy and practice NZ needs a centrally-governed and …
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Action needed to halt New Zealand’s obesity epidemic: Themes from Big Food Symposium
… the burden of obesity. This has significant consequences for NZ’s future, with one in four children living in poverty, … Experts speaking at the meeting were agreed on the need for policy intervention to support children, parents and … and providing fruit and vegetable discount vouchers for beneficiaries. Associate Professor Louise Signal is a …
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“Appetite for Destruction”: A new book with attitude – but also strong science
… they get in your face with their solutions. “Appetite for Destruction” is an impressive book. It is based on a … how what animals eat (and also what Fonterra skives off for protein supplements to sell off elsewhere) render these … no funding from the Morgan Foundation. … “Appetite for Destruction”: A new book with attitude – but also strong …
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Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa
… quickly. Smoking is the single biggest risk factor for preventable disease and premature death in Aoteaora , responsible for almost 10% of all health loss (measured in DALYs) and … study three quarters of people who smoke expressed support for this measure and many anticipated quitting smoking or …
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