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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … results are highly variable but all suggest lower levels of risk to vapers relative to tobacco smokers. Yet as the … is very dynamic (new products, changing ways people vape) and there is no evidence yet about long-term effects of e-cigarette use on health outcomes, a lot more future research will be needed …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … Last week we introduced the concept of league tables to compare interventions. This week we … League Table.  We walk through how to pull down tables and graphs of health gain (quality-adjusted life-years; … the BODE 3 Interactive League Table , and focused on how it is important to know what you are comparing – the …
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  • Transport, carbon emission reduction and health- the possibility of a virtuous circle?

    … Dr Caroline Shaw and Associate Professor Simon Hales Editor note: In this Blog, Caroline Shaw and Simon Hales reflect on the weak evidence on health co-benefits for some ‘big’ … recently published a systematic review “Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Policies in the Transport Sector …
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  • Climate Change and Recent Actions of NZ Political Parties

    … The health organisation OraTaiao convened a group of experts to analyse the climate change policies of NZ … highest grade to the Green Party, then the Labour Party, and then The Opportunities Party (TOP). This blog takes a … and the planet in the long-term?” may wish to put weight on the climate change issue in their voting decisions. This …
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  • Shifting all isolation/quarantine facilities to a single air force base: The need for a critical analysis

    … In this blog the arguments for and against shifting all COVID-19 related … The main advantage would be a reduction in the risk of border control failures, which can potentially involve … worker in August was infected from a returnee, based on genetic sequencing of the virus [2]. As the suspected mode …
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  • Note to the Havelock North Inquiry – Think Big

    … An Independent Inquiry is now investigating the cause of the water-borne outbreak caused by Campylobacter in … In this blog we consider the background to this issue and argue the Inquiry must not miss the opportunity to think up-stream, on the scale of water catchments, agricultural economies and …
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  • The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not

    … Government is committed to addressing the tobacco epidemic and that it will follow the evidence; both coalition agreements declare decisions will be “based on data and evidence”. Yet, one of the coalition government’s proposed actions – to repeal …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … plain, packages. In this blog, we discuss the importance of developing an on-going monitoring and evaluation plan around this intervention. We also explain … breathing, loss of time with family and whānau, or unheard stories.  On-pack warnings need to illustrate these different …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Good health in childhood is vital for lifelong wellbeing: time for a preventive approach

    … solutions t o improve child health : a child impact lens on policy, lifting income support, action on childhood immunisation .   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective … high rates of preventable hospitalisations, ill-health, and large health inequities among children and young people. …
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  • Proposed vaping regulations for NZ: Strengths and limitations

    … the Government’s long-awaited Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill on Sunday 23 February.  The Bill contains some important … minimising uptake by young people. Its proposed extension of prohibitions on advertising and sponsorship from tobacco …
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