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  • Invisible and ignored: Why indoor air quality deserves our attention

    … is clear that clean indoor air reduces illness, improves cognitive function, productivity and prevents the spread of … 1 Unlike water or food contamination, poor air quality is often unseen, unable to be tasted or smelt. While food and … tend to happen only in wealthier institutions or after major outbreaks. Health implications  The health …
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  • Low-cost heart-healthy bread for NZ

    … to its relatively high cost at NZ$5). All loaves made in a home bread-making machine (Photography: Pascale Otis). This blog reports on a study we just published on optimising the design of bread … to commercially available breads in 15 countries from a heart health perspective, as well as being lower cost. Such …
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  • NZ’s COVID-19 response compared to selected other jurisdictions: Australia, Taiwan and the United States

    … in NZ has involved comparing NZ’s COVID-19 response with a range of other jurisdictions, especially: Australia, Taiwan … too can probably be added to this list if the source of infection of one elderly woman is identified). Even the state … A feature of the US is that public health guidance is often delegated to states, which may then delegate to …
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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … of Health, which evaluated tobacco excise tax increases as a strategy for achieving the Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal … sector’s Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa Plan (ASAP) launched a year previously [2] . The report strengthens the overwhelming case for implementing a Government-led, comprehensive strategy to achieve the …
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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … Once a common practice, smoking prevalence has declined since its peak in the 1960s, after the serious health risks it poses became clear. … lifestyle practice; finally, social environments, often facilitated by merchandise such as ash trays from …
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  • That old chestnut again – does any alcohol consumption reduce cardiovascular disease risk? More evidence for “no”.

    … topic at PHE Blog in early 2014 . In the last few weeks a large ‘Mendelian randomisation’ study (like a genetically determined RCT of alcohol consumption – a study design with much potential for identifying causal (as …
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  • Five lessons for Aotearoa NZ from the current COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales

    … but the Greater Sydney region is currently facing a large COVID-19 outbreak, driven by the Delta variant. The … to control the outbreak and the grim situation holds a number of lessons for NZ. On 15 June 2021, a 60-year-old … accelerated so that they have reduced risk of transmitting infection during an outbreak. We probably need more mass …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … actions include upgrading the Alert Level system with a particular focus on mask use, making the Covid Tracer App … to evolve and in several respects we are now experiencing a very different pandemic from that of 2020. The Delta … Level 2 in response to potential widespread exposure to a positive case, a traveller from Sydney who visited a number …
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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?

    … We have just published a journal article on the cost-effectiveness of NZ’s Quitline … League Table, and find that whilst the Quitline is a good thing to do, much more health gain is possible through … on past NZ Quitline data and health system costs were from a national dataset linking individual health events to costs. …
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  • Evidence supports a proposed Parliamentary Bill to reduce harm from alcohol sponsorship of sport

    … Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick recently announced a Member’s Bill to end alcohol sponsorship of sport, acting … health equity. Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick recently announced a Member’s Bill to end alcohol sponsorship of sport. The Bill … case for ending alcohol sponsorship of sport and propose a replacement model so that sporting bodies can realise their …
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