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  • The draft NZ Health Strategy: Will it enable New Zealanders to “live well, stay well and get well”?

    … loss in NZ? Unfortunately not well at all. There are no population health goals and minimal evidence of concrete … up to 18 years of age”. However, once again there is no population health goal for reducing obesity and the … of diabetes), and also the word “alcohol”. But there are no population health goals or substantive primary prevention …
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  • Tobacco industry ‘transformation’ – more smoke and mirrors?

    … of conventional tobacco products within 5 years We found no evidence of a rapid decrease in smoked tobacco product … retail volumes data) 5 Criterion 2 (essential): no obstruction of core and innovative tobacco control … Group at the University of Bath, UK. * Funding: There was no specific funding supporting the preparation of this blog …
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  • Protecting children and young people from unethical junk food marketing: Upgrading the advertising codes

    … recently closed. It is important to note that there is no evidence internationally of any impact of self-regulatory … permitted to be marketed to children. 3. There should be no unhealthy advertisements directed at children –  The … defined by the Quebec definition ) on any media platform. No branded sponsorship/community outreach should be allowed …
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  • Long COVID: a crucial reason for vax, mask, and distance

    … , and questions about diabetes 17 . There was essentially no research on long COVID in children but the very recent … Sequelae of COVID (PASC) is very broad.  There is no universally accepted definition of long Covid that covers … disease. It is more common in women than men. There is no consistent relationship with age; it is of particular note …
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  • Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them?

    … benefit financially from this article.  They disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic and advisory … Omicron subvariants and the original SARS-CoV-2 virus) are no longer available in NZ.  The current Covid-19 vaccine is a … lag behind the evolution of the virus, provided there is no abrupt major change, regular updates will probably suffice …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … More times than not when a fire alarm sounds there is no fire, and this is how it must be. The threshold for alarm … is off. Alarms can be switched off right away if there is no evidence of a fire, but  the fire brigade has to have time … light’ system so that PHEIC isn’t simply ‘yes’ or ‘no’, giving the Emergency Committee more powers to raise …
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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … cessation compared with control conditions (placebo or no product, risk ratio (RR) 1.33 [95% CI 0.71 to 2.47]) or … pouches help people to stop smoking, because there are no adequately sized trials to test this (see Box 2 for … for nicotine pouches as a smoking cessation aid There are no adequately powered randomised controlled trials to …
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  • Alcohol-related harms now available on demand

    … with studies demonstrating poor age verification, no liability for third-party delivery services, and … particularly concerning given some of these services have no cap on what can be purchased. While none of the studied … individuals. 2 Third-party deliverers potentially hold no legal liability as they are not the licensee and as they …
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  • The need for a robust scientific definition for the elimination of COVID-19 from New Zealand

    … of COVID-19 elimination look like? There is currently no accepted international definition of COVID-19 elimination, … definition of elimination: “In practice this would mean no new SARS-CoV-2 cases linked to community transmission or … week (per million population), the authors estimated that no cases of COVID-19 would be missed in some circumstances. …
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  • Lime E-Scooters – Avoiding a collision course with public health?

    … (e.g., bus stops and train stations). As yet, there are no data to test this claim, though the fact Lime e-scooters are already no longer placed alongside several suburban Dunedin bus stops … footpaths when parking their scooter , many riders take no heed of this request. Evidence of vandalism creates …
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