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  • Reducing the health burden from contaminated drinking water in NZ: Opportunities arising from the new Water Services Bill

    … We also detail how addressing the upstream determinants of water-related disease burden is a far better approach than … The COVID-19 experience also raises the benefits of consolidating NZ’s public health organisations into a … health agency, which may have implications for reform of drinking water safety. Introduction Havelock North’s …
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  • NZ’s Quitline Service is value-for-money: But how does it compare with other tobacco control actions in a league table?

    … just published a journal article on the cost-effectiveness of NZ’s Quitline service (including its associated promotion … The modelling results suggested that a one year operation of the existing intervention package of mass media promotion and Quitline service was found to …
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  • Phasing out smoking: The Tobacco-Free Generation policy

    … 2025 goal and invited submissions. This blog is one of a series examining key aspects of the plan to help inform the debate and submissions. Here … to the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the obligation of governments to safeguard the health of the population. …
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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … health workers, iwi [3], and indeed the whole “Team of 5 million”. The staff in managed isolation and quarantine … have occurred (see Table 1). In contrast, the Ministry of Health avoids the term “border failure” but rather details … [7]. Unfortunately, that report from the Ministry of Health, which received wide media coverage, underestimated …
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  • Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?

    … reviews) on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of dietary counselling as a health intervention. Most studies … necessitating close attention to cost-effectiveness of these interventions relative to more structural changes to … by Patnode et al published in 2017 included 88 trials of diet and/or physical activity counselling [2]. In terms of …
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  • What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes and public health

    … discussion document from the Pacific and explores some of the reasons SSB tax outcomes from Mexico appear to show … added caloric sweetener usually sugar. The main categories of sugary drinks include soft-drinks/fizzy-drinks, sachet … Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) account for many of the highest rates of obesity and diabetes in the world. …
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  • Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed

    … among young people who vape. We find the proportion of young people that vape daily and that have never smoked … given rising youth vaping . Manat ū Hauora, the Ministry of Health, accepts vaping offers a reduced harm alternative … loophole saw widespread and aggressive marketing of nicotine vaping products to young people, most of whom do …
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  • Red meat & processed meat: Summarising the Public Health isues

    … topic and also take a wider perspective on other aspects of meat consumption on human health and the environment, and risk communication.   The cancer agency of the World Health Organization, the International Agency … climate change, should countries be moving to a more sustainable sources of protein and micro-nutrients? Ethics …
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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … Summary Cabinet has approved in principle the sale of oral tobacco products (e.g. snus) and oral nicotine … help people to stop smoking by providing a source of nicotine that is likely to be less physically harmful than … aids is limited, especially when compared with the quality of evidence supporting the use and efficacy of …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … Authority (EPA) chose not to accept the assessment of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) … attempt to justify what happened gives a muddled account of risk assessment, and misrepresents her own Authority’s … of the factors that pre-dispose to risks of cancer development – ignoring new data from toxicology and cancer …
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