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  • Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?

    … education were the keys to staying slim Sir Peter should be as thin as a rake (he’s not). It’s all very well … by an overweight person. The impact of this can be quantified by looking at wages earned by fat and slim … obesity by children as young as nine and this appears to be getting worse with time despite increasing numbers of fat …
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  • The smokefree policies of political parties: Do they care about people who smoke?

    … from the virus. Policies that support people who smoke to be smokefree would also increase the discretionary income of … has produced a plan to detail how this goal will be realised. We found nothing in the current statements of … that addiction largely negates any ‘choice’ people might be able to exert. 21 22 Political parties may also fear the …
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  • Bowel cancer screening – An interesting new US study and thoughts about the NZ situation

    … with several FOBTs, such bowel cancer screening can still be very effective as one has multiple occasions to detect … per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gained, this might be a good use of public health dollars. (It will, in all … articulated by Government for this. Should New Zealand be using one-off colonoscopy screening as in this US study? …
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  • Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

    … over 15 percent in the UK. Most of the houses that will be around by the turn of the next century have already been … we have been waiting impatiently for the Building Code to be updated so that it compares more favourably with countries … the Whai Kāinga Whai Oranga programme .  However, it is to be sincerely hoped this funding will also be used to support …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning

    … of Education David Seymour announcing that funding may be cut by 30-50% in this year’s budget. The main reasons … staff in programme success 3 , delved into whether it can be successfully implemented in schools implementing Te Ao … achievement. One of the reasons this evaluation would be very hard to do is because of the confounding factors. By …
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  • Human health impacts of plastic exposure – an evolving evidence base

    … and autism. 12   Plastic particles Plastic particles may be used in manufactured products or be released from plastic items during use, inevitably … California, there is now legislation for source waters to be tested. 18 Plastic particles pose a risk via their …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey

    … Findings relating to prevalence and trends in vaping will be reported in a future briefing. About the New  Zealand … currently.   17.1% of Māori smoke daily (estimated to be 108,000 people). Compared to 2021/22, daily smoking rates … of ex-smokers (reduced from 20.5% to 16.9%), as would be expected to accompany a genuine large fall in smoking …
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  • Reducing nicotine in smoked tobacco products: A pivotal feature of the Smokefree Aotearoa proposals

    … market and home grown tobacco use. Indeed, this seems to be the only argument that the tobacco industry has made … have noted that any increase in illicit trade is likely to be modest and will not undermine the substantial positive … isolation, make it unlikely that smuggled tobacco will be a major problem. Nonetheless, surveillance and enforcement …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … reported that 45% of dementia cases worldwide could be prevented by tackling 14 key risk factors, such as … potential for dementia prevention has been demonstrated to be higher in NZ, and even higher again in Māori and Pacific … even when the immediate dementia risk is deemed to be low.  Furthermore, many risk factors are associated with …
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  • What will the Government’s free vape starter kit programme achieve?

    … use nicotine vapes as a quitting aid are more likely to be smokefree at 3-6 months. A recent  systematic review found … by the end of this year; however, the Government should be doing its best to reduce smoking prevalence rapidly and … bring down smoking rates such as denicotinisation need to be implemented urgently, as the smokefree 2025 goal will be …
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