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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Improving the cost, composition and availability of foods can save lives

    … system: reducing the cost and increasing the availability of healthy food and reformulation of processed food. This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health …
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  • NZ’s long-running Campylobacter epidemic from poultry: Now with antibiotic resistance

    … Added to this problem is the recent rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance in these Campylobacter infections … potential solutions: (i) build on the past NZ success of regulating lower contamination levels in poultry; (ii) … treatment. AMR is considered a major threat to global health and the World Health Organization is urging all states …
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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: counterarguments to industry claims

    … 2025 goal and proposes substantially reducing the number of retailers selling tobacco. In this blog, we examine … relating to those claims. We find that predictions of dire economic consequences for small retailers are not … of outlets selling tobacco is likely to improve population health and decrease health inequities by reducing smoking …
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  • What can Aotearoa NZ learn from Australia’s new vaping policies?

    … products. Yet despite this approach, illegal supply of vapes has seen youth vaping rise. The Australian Minister of Health, Mark Butler, this week responded by announcing new …
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  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … the excise tax on heated tobacco products. Associate Health Minister Casey Costello argued this move would see … does the evidence support assertions that the population of people who still smoke are more 'hardened' (i.e., more … tobacco products (HTPs), despite advice from the Ministry of Health and Treasury. Instead, it accepted the Associate …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … Dr Matt Boyd (syndicated from the blog site of “ Adapt Research ” ) WHO? The Emergency Committee The international health regulations (IHR) provide for the Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a Public …
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  • Unaffordable home heating increases risk of severe mental distress

    … Summary The cost-of-living crisis is placing more people at risk of being unable to afford to heat their homes. We know living … in cold housing contributes to many negative physical health outcomes. There is increasing evidence that being …
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  • The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not

    … decisions will be “based on data and evidence”. Yet, one of the coalition government’s proposed actions – to repeal … continues to cost thousands of lives and millions of health care dollars. Prime Minister Luxon could yet display … of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington  Dr John Kerr , Science Lead, Public Health Communication Centre, …
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  • Likely rise in invasive strep infections in NZ requires a strategy

    … Summary Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a common cause of sore throats and skin infections in children. In rare … invasive GAS (iGAS). Since late 2022 the World Health Organization (WHO) has described numerous high-income countries reporting increases in cases of iGAS, with children under the age of 10 the most affected …
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  • Is youth vaping a problem in New Zealand?

    … systems (ENDS) and their potential contribution to public health. We then explore possible explanations for why reports … ago has not resulted in big declines in the proportion of people who smoke, or had more than a modest impact on quit … population health, we must also consider the second area of debate: vaping’s likely impact on non-smokers. Non-smokers …
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