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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could making tobacco products available only through community pharmacies help us get there?

    … In this blog we discuss the arguments for and against one of the proposals included in the Smokefree 2025 Action Plan Discussion Document that the sale of smoked tobacco products could be restricted solely to community pharmacies after the number of retail outlets selling these products are greatly reduced, …
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  • Calling for action on suicide prevention in Aotearoa

    … Summary The Ministry of Health is inviting submissions on the second Draft Suicide … to prevent suicide are broad and far-reaching.  A whole-of-society approach is urgently needed to address long-standing high rates of suicide in NZ. This approach requires a policy re-set …
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  • Low-cost heart-healthy bread for NZ

    …   Figure 1: The loaf of the left is the optimised HHB$1.5 loaf. The loaf in the … on a study we just published on optimising the design of bread for heart health. Using linear programming we found … bread voucher system for those at high risk of cardiovascular disease. Why study bread as a health issue? …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … – we must also plan for other scenarios where thousands of New Zealanders are sick – including many urgently … 1 Better resilience for our health system in the face of COVID-19 must include reducing current avoidable pressures … Emergency policies should include the reduction of preventable injuries that currently take a toll on …
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  • Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action

    … risks – which may even be increasing with larger numbers of infected returnees in border facilities. In this final … website). The success internationally with vaccine development might also be creating a false sense of … Making the NZ COVID-19 response more strategic and sustainable NZ is investing billions of dollars in its …
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  • Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … for infrastructure, but there is still a shortage of habitable safe housing for low-income households. … of contamination before houses can be safely built.  To be sustainable, new houses and apartments are preferably built … Aside from K ā inga Ora, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development now builds and manages transitional and emergency …
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  • Key findings on smoking and e-cigarette use prevalence and trends in the 2020/21 NZ Health Survey

    … (EC) use from a nationally representative sample of 9709 adults aged 15 years and over between September 2020 and August 2021. Full details of the methods are available on the Ministry of Health website. The findings reveal a different picture …
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  • The case for lowering salt levels in processed foods is now even stronger – new research

    … and high sodium intake were associated with higher risk of death. But new research suggests that low sodium intakes are not associated with a higher risk of death and the results for low sodium intake in these other studies may be largely due to inaccurate measurement of sodium intake. So the scientific community can now more …
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  • National capacity needed to monitor misinformation to protect public health and social cohesion

    … information—poses a significant threat to the health of our communities. It can lead to poor health choices, … of the NZ misinformation landscape and monitor this in a sustainable way. What this Briefing adds Misleading … on another platform. Continual self-assessment and development It must improve its own capabilities as it …
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  • Plugging the gap: Aotearoa’s piped water loss far worse than global leaders

    … we estimate NZ’s national leakage level, finding that 22% of water is lost through leaks in water systems. This is far … Leakage Index), also suggests NZ is ranked near the bottom of a list of 15 jurisdictional groupings with data (the median index …
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