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Human health impacts of plastic exposure – an evolving evidence base
… can leach from plastic items in different environments, e.g. food contact chemicals can leach from plastic packaging … presence. Physical attributes such as their shape (e.g. sharp-edged fragments or needle-like fibres) and charged … that is reliable and includes all required QA/QC. See e.g.: Sharma, P, Sharma, P, Abhishek, K. Sampling, separation, …
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A Statue of Merit: Dr Margaret Cruickshank and the 1918 influenza pandemic
… this case the pandemic ) and a biography of the person (e.g., as per this website [5]). Statues provide relatively … statue could cause additional suffering to many people e.g., can you imagine a statue of Hitler in any public place? … societal concerns over time and for art history reasons. E.g., statues of Stalin have been put into “fallen monument” …
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Key findings on smoking and e-cigarette use prevalence and trends in the 2020/21 NZ Health Survey
… 25.7% in 2020/21. The decrease was greater among women e.g., current smoking prevalence fell from 35.0% to 25.8% while … was driven largely by falls in prevalence among men (e.g. current smoking changed from 14% to 9%). There were also … pandemic resulted in a systematic change to the methods e.g., to the sampling strategy, participation rates or to the …
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To ensure success of the trans-Tasman travel “green zone”, we need to reduce system failures at the NZ border
… appear to have then infected another person (Case G), potentially on a charter flight after leaving the … (Case F) [19] [21]. Two household contacts of Case G were also infected [19]. Border facility health worker … travelling to NZ [42], the authors state: “Passenger G was a travel companion of passenger F, and their date of …
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Oral nicotine products: Expanding the nicotine marketplace
… to include e-cigarettes (ECs) heated tobacco products (e.g., IQOS) and, more recently, oral nicotine products (ONPs). … attractive packages, feature youth-oriented brand names (e.g., ZYN, which has breed cult neologisms, such as …
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How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?
… measurement of individuals’ socioeconomic factors (e.g. with lifelong cohort studies) would almost certainly see … to health that do not go through socioeconomic position (e.g. direct discrimination, tobacco consumption related to … ethnicity for reasons other than socioeconomic position (e.g. Māori females have smoked at high rates ever since first …
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Five Strategic Approaches to Achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal
… governments have also adopted similar smokefree goals e.g. Canada, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden and Finland. In … of these cost-savings can occur within the first year (e.g., from preventing: premature births, acute respiratory … pictorial warnings on packs, smoking cessation support (e.g., the Quitline and subsidised pharmacotherapies); and …
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How might NZ expand community water fluoridation?
… notable for including some high quality studies from NZ (e.g., evidence from a longitudinal study [3] that exposure to … could clarify if this was a feasible option for NZ e.g., in terms of such options as: A legal requirement in …
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Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation
… key ways to address these are probably price signals (e.g., tobacco tax increases [2,3]) and a healthier food … is being done by the National Health Service in the UK e.g., see this website . An alternative case would be to …
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Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis
… initiating systems-based approaches with communities (e.g. Healthy Families, Healthy Auckland Together) developing … media, including during children’s peak viewing times (e.g. up to 9pm) b. in non-broadcast media, including food … Classification System. 6. Introduce a substantial (e.g. 20%) tax on sugar-sweetened beverages and explore using …
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