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  • New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective

    … prestigious Lancet journal has been touted in the media as showing how good e-cigarettes are for people wanting to … to 17 out of 295 people randomised to nicotine patches, or 5.8%.  The difference in percentage points was 1.51%, with a … one can conclude that e-cigarettes were at least as effective as patches, meaning they might have a place in …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … As a strategy to reduce harm from alcohol, there is growing … is the correct approach”; hitting moderate drinkers as well as heavy drinkers; and just creating a profit windfall for …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … what strategy it is taking. Is it going for eradication (as was the successful goal for the SARS pandemic and seems to … or is it going for ‘flattening the curve’ (mitigation) as per the traditional approach with influenza pandemics? … COVID-19 has a reproduction number (R 0 ) of about 2.5 in society functioning ‘normally’ – it is lowered by social …
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  • Adaptation important but don’t give up on mitigation—what the new IPCC report means for Aotearoa

    … New Zealand context, highlighting public health impacts as well as policy pathways for both adapting to, and mitigating the … than ever before of increases in extreme events such as heatwaves, extraordinary rainfall and tropical cyclones, …
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  • Fast-track Bill puts NZ on wrong track, threatening public health

    … roads are priorities for the Government under the Bill. As environmental scientists have noted, “The fast-tracking … will be able to reject these conditions, including, as Minister for Infrastructure Chris Bishop has indicated, … There are 3,300 premature adult deaths per year in NZ as a result of air pollution, 11 and around 34,000 people …
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  • Potential for an avian influenza pandemic: Time for NZ to ramp up preparedness

    … avian influenza (HPAI) or ‘bird flu’, is causing concern as it continues to evolve and infect new hosts, notably … contact with infected birds and mammals become infected. 5 (see Figure). Severity varies, but the overall case … However, the virus could be introduced by wild birds as NZ is on the migratory path of multiple species. 11  If …
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  • #JUULGATE Nicotine industry documents highlight the need for greater transparency in public health policy

    … (henceforth Aotearoa)  ratified on 27 January, 2004 . As well as advocating measures that reduce both demand for tobacco … companies’ influence on policy (see Appendix ). Article 5.3 notes that Parties “ setting and implementing their …
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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … on a graph, the correlation looks weaker.  Fair enough, as such ‘ecologic’ studies are prone to error – but of course … they are also prone to missing important associations as well, such as the association of saturated fat with heart … heart disease as the outcome, showing that for each 5% of energy in the diet shifted from SFA to PUFA the risk of …
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  • Monkeypox has arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand: what is the level of risk and how do we manage it?

    … = 10.6%). The global monkeypox outbreak is highly unusual. As of 8 July 2022 there are 8238 confirmed cases in 57 … steadily . Technically it could be termed a pandemic, as it is an outbreak that has spread to multiple countries, … fever, muscle aches, fatigue, and swollen lymph nodes 5,7–11 . A characteristic rash that spreads over the body can …
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  • A new online calculator for estimating how much a society might spend on life-saving interventions

    … threshold. Policy-makers could use this calculator as a rapid screening tool to determine if more detailed … (GDP) on health, e.g., at least 10% in countries like as NZ. Furthermore, the ongoing rise in health spending at a … equity impacts, public acceptability, and feasibility (as outlined by Pharmac ). Methods for building this …
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