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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … loss and smoking cessation well-designed? We were involved in a study published in last Friday’s NZ Medical Journal that tried to answer that … not perform that well against the various criteria. The average scores across the four groups for the MARS scale were …
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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … Summary Cabinet has approved in principle the sale of oral tobacco products (e.g. snus) and oral nicotine products (e.g. pouches) in Aotearoa New Zealand. These products could potentially … replacement therapy (NRT) products, are widely available in Aotearoa New Zealand (including nicotine lozenges and gum) …
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  • The long shadow of Cyclone Gabrielle: Brief review at 12 months

    … and it became the most costly weather-related disaster in the country’s history. Here we briefly consider its persisting long shadow in terms of: (i) ongoing disruption to lives and stress from … need for much more central and local government investment in resilient infrastructure and to support managed retreat of …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Protecting the healthcare system: a strategic approach to reducing infectious disease impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … In this blog we outline three immediate approaches to protect … from infectious disease impacts : building on synergies in infectious disease control ; applying pandemic … quickly. T he SARS-CoV-2 virus may be a new pathogen, but in many ways the pandemic is simply a larger-scale version of …
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  • Is NZ a laggard in responding to climate change?: Results of a Global Index

    … climate experts internationally. By this measure, NZ ranks in the bottom half of the OECD for responding to the climate … for if it is to be a responsible “international citizen” in terms of the global environment and global health. The … Index ” is not good news for NZ. The country is ranked in the bottom half of the countries included (39 out of 58) …
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  • Social media and youth wellbeing: The need for a multi-layered public health approach

    … social media from 13 to 16. This represented a first step in a public health approach to addressing the harms of social media use in young people. A similar approach could be introduced in Aotearoa New Zealand, where giving children access to …
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  • Calling for action on suicide prevention in Aotearoa

    … needed to address long-standing high rates of suicide in NZ. This approach requires a policy re-set moving the … that tackle the broader determinants of suicide in Aotearoa New Zealand.    This Briefing opens the … must include. Every year almost 600 people die by suicide in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), and 75% of them are men 1 (see …
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  • What can we learn from Healthy Housing Initiatives? New evidence from the Wellington Well Homes scheme

    … We know that poor housing conditions result in ill health for many New Zealanders, and we know which … that could be related to poor housing conditions. In this blog post, we draw on recently published research to … programmes. There is overwhelming evidence that  living in poor quality housing is devastating to health and that …
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  • Contradictions surround Government’s move to slash tax on heated tobacco products

    … had previously criticised denicotinisation, the reduction in tobacco outlets, and the smokefree generation, as … the strong evidence and arguments supporting each measure. In this Briefing we compare the position she took with … cause was misleading and deceptive. 1-4  A judge involved in one of these trials,  Judge Gladys Kessler , stated: “ …
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  • Does healthy food really cost more?

    … monitoring over a decade from the UK that showed the rise in price was steeper for healthy food. Price metrics There is … lentils and rolled oats doesn’t hold much appeal for the average NZ household. Wilson et al (2013) (1) identified a … to nutrient profiling. In 2012 the healthy foods were on average, three times more expensive than the unhealthy foods …
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