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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … business-as-usual trends in smoking prevalence, and the potential roles of interventions such as higher regular … in NZ. There is also widespread support by the public for tobacco endgame strategies (1-5), or at least for … tobacco taxes (e.g., 20% annually) could be justified but only if accompanied by other reforms such as lowering income …
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  • New Zealand’s hard-won improvements to our Building Code must be retained: Here’s why

    … Summary It has recently been reported that the Government is  considering reducing the thickness of … and health. In this Briefing, we lay out the evidence for retaining hard-won improvements to the Building Code. In … research in Aotearoa New Zealand showing that it’s not only energy efficiency that’s improved by insulation, but …
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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … review this approach. This blog discusses some of the new evidence and suggests options for a review process.New Zealand seems to have done a fairly … from the treatment of adults, “oseltamivir reduced the time to first alleviation of symptoms by 16.8 hours”. Also …
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  • Wellbeing in public housing vs. private rentals: Quality and security make the difference

    … evidence that provision of public housing can improve the wellbeing of people currently in private tenancies. … housing gained in terms of housing quality and wellbeing. For instance, using GSS data,  Anastasiadis et al 1  show … with higher tenant wellbeing relative to private rental? Second, does the relationship between tenant wellbeing and …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … Summary As Aotearoa New Zealand's population ages, the number of people living with dementia is expected to … and economic issue. Since age is the biggest risk factor for dementia and there’s currently no cure, there is a need … these risk factors. However individual lifestyle change is only a very incomplete answer. These risks often begin early …
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  • Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory

    … He Kāinga Oranga Housing and Health Research Programme at the University of Otago Wellington, we are urging the … Electricity Authority to make the Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers mandatory to protect health. A new … working to protect consumers The report highlights that only 18 of 39 retailers self-report full compliance with the …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey

    … More New Zealanders than ever are vaping according to the latest data from the New Zealand Health Survey released … The findings suggest that the regulatory framework for vaping products needs to be strengthened to minimise … and generic retailers, with the latter able to see only a restricted range of vaping products; (ii) requiring …
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  • Glass half full: Alcohol’s health benefits for cardiovascular disease still controversial, and likely vary by context

    … are beneficial to cardiovascular health.  But actually in research circles this ‘fact’ is hotly contested. In this blog we will overview the currently dominant understanding of a ‘J-shape’ … published study of 400,000 European adults followed up for an average 13 years that reports a seemingly J-shape …
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  • Why a “mouth and nose” lockdown with masks might help avoid a “full body” lockdown at home

    … The concepts of an Alert Level system, household “bubbles”, … study looking at clusters in Hubei Province (China) noted only one outbreak in an outdoor environment (and this … (96% of the population), Hong Kong has had a low Re for weeks without the strict lockdown we have faced in New …
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  • Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?

    … model of carbon-heavy development on its head, surely it makes a lot of sense to withdraw investments from the fossil … are generic. That is, they may be applied to any proposal for divestment. For example, “we must get the best returns … of cheap oil, gas and coal. But this doesn’t mean that the only route to social and economic development in the 21 st …
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