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  • Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: Five key ways to reduce the massive health and social costs

    … surprisingly high level of harm from air pollution. This annual harm includes the premature deaths of more than 3300 … drawing on comprehensive air quality monitoring data from 2016. The HAPINZ researchers estimate that anthropogenic … Otago Wellington. Prof Hales is a co-author of the HAPINZ Report discussed in this blog. This work on air pollution is …
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  • The cost burden of excess weight in New Zealand: Sizing up a new report

    … for a decade. This is of great concern and it makes a new report from the Sapere Research Group on the Economic Impact … of Excess Weight in Aotearoa all the more important. The report was commissioned by Hapai Te Hauora and it is a very … turn, it is important to highlight two things. First, this report did not build the costs from the ground up, which is …
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  • More evidence that elimination is the best COVID-19 control strategy for health and the economy

    … In this blog we briefly consider a new report from a European think tank that aims to identify an … this approach. But additional information comes from a new Report by a Paris-Brussels think tank: Institut Économique … Institut économique Molinari What does this new European Report find? The key finding of this Report is that the three …
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  • Media release: New report shows how regional plans could transform freshwater quality

    … A report laying out weaknesses in planning that have seen the … of Otago, Marnie Prickett, looks at the hard-hitting report from the Ministry of Environment (MfE) Ōtūwharekai/Ashburton Lakes lessons-learnt report . The report presents a list of regulatory failures, …
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  • Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact

    … this taxation programme had not continued beyond January 2016. Prevalence reductions may be greater if we hit a … in NZ, tobacco taxes were first increased (beyond the annual inflation adjustment) by 10% in 2010, followed by … from 13.4% to 12.5%). In reality however, we suspect that annual tax increases are now so well accepted by NZ …
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  • Smokefree cars legislation: Should the new government make this a priority?

    … overwhelming evidence that exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) poses serious risks to children’s health. SHS causes … of Pacific students. Māori students were more likely to report frequent exposure (over 3 times in last week).[6] A … support comes from smokers as well as non-smokers – in 2016, 89% of adult smokers surveyed supported such a law.[7] …
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  • Adaptation important but don’t give up on mitigation—what the new IPCC report means for Aotearoa

    … Summary The latest report from the IPCC finds extreme weather events are more … including in New Zealand. This article places the new report in the New Zealand context, highlighting public health … and future impacts of climate change. The latest synthesis report from the IPCC, published today , summarises the state …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … users experience at the current point in time (mid-2016). Also past estimates (as per previous reports by Public … and just on biomarker studies (a more detailed Technical Report available on request: [ nick.wilson@otago.ac.nz ]). We … since 1 January 2015, for extra details see the technical report) Disease group relevance Measure % level in vapers vs …
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  • Happiness surveys, & can health sector interventions improve well-being?

    … According to the just released “ World Happiness Report 2013 ”, New Zealanders are among the happiest people … (NZGSS), run by Statistics New Zealand. This Happiness Report is not light-weight fluff – far from it. One of the … GDP and a ‘particular’ take on utilitarianism. Indeed, the Report contains a fascinating chapter on restoring ethical …
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  • Climate Change and Recent Actions of NZ Political Parties

    … Various internet searches, e.g. for involvement in a key report [4] and attendance at the Paris Climate Conference. … the cross-party process of preparing the Globe-NZ Net Zero Report [4]. But here again there was very uneven contribution … on housing insulation support programmes (reducing the 2016 budget allocation markedly relative to preceding years). …
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