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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … carcinogen”. Instead the EPA commissioned its own report which found that glyphosate is “unlikely to be … assessment on glyphosate, and instead commissioned its own report. This was written by Dr Wayne Temple, a toxicologist … of the National Poisons Centre, and published in August 2016 [4]. The aim of the EPA review was the same as the IARC …
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  • Tax policy reform: equity, fairness, and health

    … instead of the current top rate of 39% over $180,000. A 2% annual tax on net wealth over $2m (net after debts subtracted) eg, an annual $20,000 on $3m net wealth, along with a wealth … of one element of this under-investment is shown by a 2021 report for government:   ‘The Ministry of Health estimates …
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  • Illicit tobacco trade and the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: Arguments and evidence

    … appears to be the case in NZ also. For example, a 2010 report commissioned by British American Tobacco claimed … represented 3.3% of tobacco consumption in NZ in 2009. A 2016 report commissioned by Philip Morris International (PMI) … had increased to 9% in 2016 and to 12.7% in 2017. An annual tobacco industry-commissioned study on illicit tobacco …
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  • Media release: What can we do to reduce the number of babies dying before, during or soon after birth?

    … and Maternal Mortality Review Committee’s (PMMRC) 16th Annual Report released recently. In  the latest Briefing from the … and co-authors describe the key findings in the PMMRC Report and encourage a robust conversation about what needs …
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  • Climate change and cherry blossom

    … of Chapter 11 (Human Health) in the 5 th IPCC Assessment Report. A commentary on the full chapter is available at the … just after 9am on Friday 4 Apirl, discussing this report and his reflections .   Last Saturday in Japan the … meeting would not come to closure, and the Working Group 2 report was not approved until midday Sunday. What was on the …
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  • False zombie arguments about illicit tobacco shouldn’t be given any more oxygen

    … by tobacco companies into the market as reported in the annual tobacco returns to the Ministry of Health 9 was … the total amount of tobacco consumed using estimates from annual NZ Health Survey 10 questions. The 2023 University of Auckland report estimated the 2022 consumption gap at 8.4%, equivalent …
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  • Living longer, living healthier? Latest Official Report on independent life expectancy in NZ

    … longer in good health. The bad news? According to this report, the percentage of our lives with some dependency due … However, we have concerns about the accuracy of this Report, and critique it in this blog.   The last two … just published Independent Life Expectancy in New Zealand report . The Ministry used Post-Censal Disability Surveys to …
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  • What does the 2019/20 NZ Health Survey tell us about progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa?

    … https://minhealthnz.shinyapps.io/nz-health-survey-2019-20-annual-data-explorer/ ). We report prevalences for smoking, e-cigarette (EC) use and … between 2011/12 and 2019/20, but was 11.9% or higher since 2016/17. There was a marked disparity by age group in 2019/20 …
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  • BMI keeps on going up – and reflections on the Diabesity Symposium

    … NZ going back to the 1980s. Over the last four decades the annual increase in BMI is linear, relentless increasing; no … adult obesity sex by ethnicity in NZ (Source: Teng et al, 2016 2 ) Footnotes: The crude obesity prevalence rates from … obesity rates among pre-school Pacifica ( page 24 of this report ) – but it is early days. Against this backdrop, the …
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  • Daily nicotine use increases among youth in Aotearoa NZ: The 2021 Snapshot Y10 Survey

    … assess the impact of different policies.  While the survey report reveals declining daily smoking, it also shows … to 10.6% in 2021). The vast majority of daily vapers (89%) report that they usually vape with nicotine. ASH has not yet … grow its overall nicotine product market; a comprehensive report on Philip Morris International concluded “Novel …
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