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  • Aotearoa New Zealand's fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care

    … Summary Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) is experiencing a fourth wave of Covid-19 infection. This … pandemic infections. Author details Prof Michael Baker , Dr Jennifer Summers , Dr John Kerr , and Prof Nick Wilson are with the Department …
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  • Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research

    … into a wider context of how nutrition could be improved in NZ. This study was done given the high importance of dietary … we aimed to model the health benefits and costs for NZ of reducing salt intakes – given this is a country that … processed foods (which has already been happening to some NZ food such as soups). In our study, published in the …
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  • How can we address tobacco companies’ manipulation of cigarette prices?

    … of our just published paper on pricing and changes in the NZ tobacco market during a period of sustained excise tax … very strong evidence, including from Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ), that tobacco price increases reduce consumption, … a tobacco-free generation. * Authors: Philip Gendall, Janet Hoek, Richard Edwards and Nick Wilson are members of …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … We were involved in a study published in last Friday’s NZ Medical Journal that tried to answer that question from a NZ public health perspective. In this blog we discuss what we … technological tools for health research and promotion in NZ. In NZ, tobacco use and overweight/obesity are the two …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … based at the University of Auckland, has been monitoring NZ’s food environments since 2014. Our first comprehensive … from 2014 to 2017 1 concluded that the food environment in NZ is largely unhealthy. Since then, there have been a few … commitments and actions aimed towards improvement of NZ diets. But have these made an impact on the food …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle by the numbers – A review at six months

    … regions of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) in February 2023. It joined the list of NZ’s mass fatality events with 11 people losing their lives. … Author details Professor Nick Wilson , Adele Broadbent  & Dr John Kerr . All authors are based at the Public Health …
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  • Protecting fresh waterways in Aotearoa/NZ: The strong Public Health case

    … process which ends on 31 October.   Introduction   The NZ Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has recently published … water quality has recently become an important issue in NZ with increased public concern and political attention. … has become increasingly intensive and over the same period NZ’s waterways have shown a range of indicators of degraded …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks

    … survey of political parties in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) about policies to strengthen the country's resilience to … University of Otago, Wellington, and Director of the PHCC Dr John Kerr , Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, and Science Lead, PHCC Dr Matt Boyd , Director, Adapt Research Ltd None of the …
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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … measures, are highly consistent with those made in the NZ tobacco control sector’s Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa Plan … all peoples in Aotearoa.   When the Labour/New Zealand (NZ) First/Green Government formed in October 2017, there were … efforts to reduce their impact. It comprised a review of NZ and international literature; an analysis of secondary …
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  • Media release: Poverty and disadvantage fuel NZ’s rising rates of dementia

    … 60% higher for people living in the most deprived areas of NZ compared to those in the least deprived areas. Dr ‘Etuini Ma’u and co-authors from the Department of … in areas of high social disadvantage and poverty.” Dr Ma’u says this presents opportunities for prevention with …
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