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  • Reducing the health burden from contaminated drinking water in NZ: Opportunities arising from the new Water Services Bill

    … water regulator, Taumata Arowai, to oversee, administer and enforce new drinking water regulations. We also detail … people get sick from drinking water in NZ each year. 1 In addition, the country has experienced localised disease … that does not comply with current drinking water standards or has unknown water quality. 4 Key provisions of the new …
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  • Comparing health interventions in a meaningful way – Introducing the BODE3 Interactive League Table

    … This blog introduces league tables, and more specifically the NZ-specific BODE 3  Interactive … to give further consideration to investing in, or disinvesting in. If life and policy was more rational, New … environment” (eg, via taxing sugary drinks). Figure 1: Decision making in the health sector requires ‘weighing …
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  • Severe weather events linked to outbreaks of crypto in Aotearoa – New study

    … recent study into the link between severe weather events and clusters of the gastrointestinal disease … evidence that weather events with heavy rainfall or flooding may play a role in the development of some … outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease in NZ. 1   In NZ, Cryptosporidium  infections (cryptosporidiosis) in …
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  • Slight drop in youth vaping but stark ethnic disparities remain

    … slightly, it remains very high by international standards, and stark ethnic inequities persist.  New regulations, … impacts. Nicotine vaping may help people to stop smoking, 1 but evidence is accumulating about the harms that vaping … five NZ youth who vaped in the past 30 days were current or former smokers (see Appendix ).  Vaping negatively affects …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … in New Zealand will start appearing in standardised, or plain, packages. In this blog, we discuss the importance of developing an on-going monitoring and evaluation plan around this intervention. We also explain … smokers from quitting and prompting quitters to relapse. 1-4 The Māori Affairs Select Committee and Dame Tariana Turia …
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  • It’s been 3 years since COVID entered New Zealand – here are 3 ways to improve our response

    … Summary Aotearoa New Zealand’s elimination strategy and subsequent high Covid-19 vaccination coverage gave this … three of the pandemic is resulting in frequent infection and reinfection with associated illness, hospitalisation, … is now transitioning from an emergency pandemic response 1 to treating Covid-19 as another important infectious …
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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 … Such bread designs could be promoted by health agencies and utilised in conjunction with a government-funded bread … (29.5 million), cardiovascular disease (21.2 million) and cancer (6.7 million) (2). Dietary risk factors are …
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  • Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research

    … hold divergent views on how access to vaping products or electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) products … ENDS should be as widely available as smoked tobacco and argue for liberal access. However, others suggest smoked … and other products, such as heated tobacco products (HTP). 1 Among other topics, the Bill is expected to set product …
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  • More than 147km – the transformative potential of the Wellington bike network plan

    … the city have cycleways that connect to the central city and three quarters of people in the city will be within 5 … soon instead of waiting for everything to be completed and that aspects that don’t work well are adjusted before … footnote at end of this blog), but this could be higher or lower depending on the quality of the cycle network. What …
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  • Balancing fear with hope: A more effective way of promoting smoking cessation?

    … to ensure people who smoke understand the harms they face, and try to make smoking unattractive to young people, so they … However, they may also rationalise warnings, ignore them, or exempt themselves from the risks shown.  Efficacy labels … strong emotional connections with “their” tobacco brand. 1-4 Plain packaging removed these branding symbols and …
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