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

    … study 2 ). There is also emerging epidemiological evidence on the relationship between water contamination and chronic … Water Standards are issued by the Ministry of Health under the Health Act 1956 but there are also clauses in the … result of the Health and Disability System Review, 8 whose report was released on 16 June. In addition, the WSB is part …
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  • Reducing the spread of antibiotic resistance in New Zealand, action is long overdue!

    … the coming decades. This cost will inevitably fall hardest on those communities with the highest overall rates of … As discussed in a recent article in the New Zealand Medical Journal , rapid large reductions in rates of … decade. The table below links to several examples. Year   Report/statement Organisation 2015 Antibiotics and …
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  • A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’

    … university researchers and NGOs are developing to get us on the road to implementation of smart food policies in New … Some renowned scientists recently even made a declaration on Big Food’s influence on undermining healthy food policies … describe their food environment. The INFORMAS work is under the auspices of the International Obesity Taskforce, …
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  • World Ventil8 Day – How do our buildings measure up?

    … than the air we breathe. Taking place every year on the 8 November is World Ventil8 Day. This day aims to … levels. Our recent CO 2 monitoring in shared spaces like medical centre waiting rooms (Figure 2) and hospitality … levels of 1000 ppm (green area of the graph) Figure 2: Medical Centre waiting room CO 2 levels over a 4-day period, …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … Philip Morris USA, Inc. et al., a landmark US case taken under the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations … States; tobacco companies’ profitability has depended on a strategy of global consumer deception that has seen … poses to health, and developed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). 3 No other industry has been the …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … We were involved in a study published in last Friday’s NZ Medical Journal that tried to answer that question from a NZ … [6], including for Māori [7]. We also noted NZ work on smartphone-mediated cardiovascular management [8,9]. But … reviews [14,15] but also that some recent studies did not report statistically significant weight loss [16-19]. So what …
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  • Fighting cold, damp housing – a big tick for Warmer Kiwi programme

    … using heat pumps reduces electricity use by 16 percent on average over winter months and is effective at creating … double its Warmer Kiwi Homes programme, to deliver 26,500 home insulation and heating retrofits per year for the … who have benefited from Warmer Kiwi Homes (please credit this to EECA). What's new in this Briefing Motu’s …
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  • Beyond unhelpful dichotomies: a co-regulatory approach to protecting children from junk food marketing

    … diseases. It is a good time to reflect not only on the content of those approaches, but also the regulatory … really look like? Yes, co-regulation is between full-on regulation and voluntary codes, but clarifications about … to governance’ illustrating the decreasing reliance on state-centric hierarchical control in favour of greater …
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  • Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?

    … overview of these products, with more detailed information on safety, efficacy and marketing to come in subsequent … in Figure 3.  Figure 2: Tobacco-free nicotine pouches (credit: snubie.com )                    Figure 3: Oral … see Appendix ). NRT is permitted as a therapeutic product under the Medicines Act 1981, which requires manufacturers to …
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  • What the fizz! A week of dealing to sugary drinks in NY and NZ

    … drinks. The surprising darling of public health action on soft drinks, New York, suffered a set-back when the New … poster child for local government public health action on obesity.  (Interestingly from a New Zealand perspective, … of the “ton of bricks dumped by Big Food and Big Soda on the real public health policies which could reduce obesity …
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