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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … Tobacco companies have made much of their “transformation” vision, which they claim will … pioneered this rhetoric yet this company’s recent launch of a new, super value, smoked tobacco product : the cigarillo … to “harm reduced products”? Unfortunately, PMI’s continued development and marketing of smoked tobacco products is badly …
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  • Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

    … this, we need to understand their upstream experiences of housing instability. This Briefing reports the findings and implications of a study focused on LGBTIQ+ people’s experiences of housing instability.  Housing needs to be viewed as a …
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  • Walking and cycling for transport is good for physical activity levels in Kiwis!

    … Physical activity is good for health. Higher levels of physical activity are associated with reduced rates of breast and colon cancer, better mental health, lower … are predominately men. This may be problematic for policy development; we know that some of the opposition to new …
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  • Open data, transparency and power – role of the Virtual Health Information Network

    … leadership on data sharing. In this blog we describe some of the opportunities and the challenges in this new data … stronger health research and therefore benefit the health of all New Zealanders. The VHIN is a network of health data … greater transparency, accountability, and it stimulates development of communities of interest where researchers can …
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  • A new review on dietary fats: Putting its findings in context

    … heart disease. We have concerns about some aspects of this review, in particular the lack of context around the totality of the evidence. Hence we suggest that the best evidence for …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … is growing interest internationally around the setting of minimum prices on alcohol. In this blog we review a paper … in alcohol excise tax. Professor Jennie Connor, University of Otago, researches the public health impacts of alcohol policy in NZ   Last month Justice Minister Collins …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’

    … the deaths caused by Cyclone Gabrielle in the context of previous 'sudden mass fatality events' in Aotearoa New … since the year 1900. But fatalities are just one aspect of the wider harm to health and wellbeing from Gabrielle – … a major economic burden to the country. Given the scale of the impacts, there is a need for a broader inquiry to the …
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  • Five lessons for Aotearoa NZ from the current COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales

    … generally succeeded in eliminating community transmission of the pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2, but the Greater Sydney … control the outbreak and the grim situation holds a number of lessons for NZ. On 15 June 2021, a 60-year-old airport … 12-15 year age-group) will also be a decisive step in the development of population immunity and requires additional …
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  • Can CT screening for lung cancer in New Zealand be cost-effective?

    … it is the most deadly cancer, accounting for almost 20% of all cancer deaths in New Zealand. Lung cancer carries such … when the disease is advanced, has spread to other parts of the body, and is that much harder to treat. Consequently, there is a lot of interest in detecting lung cancer at its earlier stages. …
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  • The rising influence of big business on policymaking: What it means for public health in NZ

    … recently released a report on social determinants of health equity that outlined the increasingly powerful … for more work to analyse and manage the negative impacts of commercial interests on policymaking and health, while … in Aotearoa New Zealand and suggest how conflicts of interest could be more effectively managed. The World …
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