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  • Thoughts on NZ Adopting an Aussie Community Health Programme … and Forthcoming Nutrition Policy Events

    … Blakely and Associate Professor Nick Wilson Late last year Health Minister Tony Ryall visited Victoria, Australia , to … a series of four forthcoming blog posts here at Public Health Expert. The Australian programme has healthy nutrition … a ry D rink Free Pacific by 2030 ? symposium to be held on 19-20 February in Auckland, by Dr Gerard Sundborn.            …
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  • The hardening hypothesis for smoking – but does the evidence point to “softening” in NZ?

    … (eg, more poor smokers, more smokers with mental health conditions). The net effect should be a reduced rate … action plan and failure to progress key interventions (19), –  the evidence favouring softening rather than … toward the smokefree 2025 goal. N Z Med J . 2016;129:1439. 19. Ball J, Edwards R, Waa A, et al. Is the NZ Government …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … ” ) WHO? The Emergency Committee The international health regulations (IHR) provide for the Emergency Committee … have lambasted the late timing of PHEIC declaration for COVID-19 and also the opaque nature of the acronym.   The WHO …
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  • Slight drop in youth vaping but stark ethnic disparities remain

    … negatively affects respiratory, cardiovascular and oral health, 3-5 and can also affect mental wellbeing, … Year 10 students vaping daily in 2024.   The New Zealand Health Survey has also recorded declines in youth vaping in … Zealand, ASPIRE Aotearoa (University of Otago). Youth (16-19 years) and young adults (20-29 years) are recruited via …
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  • Mounting complexities in the dietary salt & health relationship

    … A large prospective study on dietary salt and health has recently been reported in the New England Journal … work that a (very) high intake of salt is hazardous to health – an increased hazard was also found for low intakes … is now fairly strong (e.g., these two meta-analyses (19, 20), as well as the O’Donnell et al study for lower risk …
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  • “Nudging” to improve QR scanning and mask wearing to protect us all during a pandemic

    … A feature of Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID-19 elimination strategy is the rapid identification and then … during the COVID pandemic? Currently, the Ministry of Health (MOH) recommends that QR Code posters are printed in …
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  • Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data

    … anyone from researchers, policy-makers, journalists and health practitioners to access high quality data on these vital, population-level health statistics. Examples we use include: massive declines … begging the question “Why?”.   Striking inequalities in health in NZ In this country there are striking inequalities …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … that tried to answer that question from a NZ public health perspective. In this blog we discuss what we found and … ‘what next’ for using these new technological tools for health research and promotion in NZ. In NZ, tobacco use and … did not report statistically significant weight loss [16-19]. So what did this new study do? The study involved the …
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  • Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status

    … In this blog we comment on the current COVID-19 situation globally and in NZ. We focus on potential … pandemic virus is highly infectious and is causing major health and economic damage in most countries around the …
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  • Transport, carbon emission reduction and health- the possibility of a virtuous circle?

    … Shaw and Simon Hales reflect on the weak evidence on health co-benefits for some ‘big’ environmental policies, but … ‘no-brainer’ actions that can be taken now with likely health and environmental co-benefit. They have recently published a systematic review “Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Policies in …
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