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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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  • Can pandemic threats justify border closure for island nations like NZ?

    … Countries prepare for future pandemic risks because of pandemic influenza, novel emerging infectious agents and … published in a journal, we explored the costs and benefits of complete border closure in NZ in response to new pandemic … Additionally, there is now very active international development of unmanned cargo ships controlled from land in …
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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … (WHR24) found a steep decline in the mental wellbeing of youth. Findings from New Zealand-specific research paint a … a priority, and has the potential to create tangible and sustainable change to mental health and wellbeing. 13   The … or low-cost primary healthcare, mental health, and social development services to young people. Despite evidence of …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … But to do so means understanding the maths and ethics of both these strategies. In this blog we adapt our work for … ratcheting up its control measures to deal with the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in our view at least, there is … piece published in The Conversation by Prof John Daley of the Grattan Institute, he argues that there is a need in …
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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … methods to improve the quality and causal inference of our research – more of that below.  During the week, the Australian Broadcasting … death in countries with saturated fat intake.  The criticism?  When you put more than just the seven studies on …
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  • Digesting things further: High dietary salt intakes are almost certainly problematic

    … concerns regarding other aspects). Here we update some of our thinking and conclude that the totality of the available evidence is sufficient for health authorities to continue taking a range of evidence-based actions to reduce the hazard of high salt …
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