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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … reduce smoking prevalence : mandated denicotinisation and a reduction in tobacco retailer s. We do not consider the … and opportunities .    Most health impacts occur after many years or decades of smoking. However, stopping … the main reason smoking is highly addictive and quitting often so difficult.  Numerous studies , including from …
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  • Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones

    … should be conducted for other disasters to better inform a wider range and depth of future disaster mitigation … to up to $14.5 billion. 4 In this Briefing we apply a relatively novel process to examine this disaster – … considering hypothetical scenarios in which the outcome of a disaster event is imagined to be worse than what actually …
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  • Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023

    … Summary The results of a Health Coalition Aotearoa survey of political parties on … These three harmful products are responsible for almost a third of Aotearoa New Zealand’s health burden and demand … making sure tobacco isn’t sold at all to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009. We are proud to lead the world in …
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  • COVID-19 and Māori health – when equity is more than a word

    … within our society, frame equity as an add-on to a substantial list of other ‘equally’ important principles, … by oppressive systems. These include increased risk of infection for Māori, greater risk of negative COVID-19 health … which person gets what resource. These approaches often reflect judgements about which patients have the …
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  • Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax

    … We found that these meta-analyses supported this, eg, a 5% shift in dietary energy from saturated fats to … some of the potential policy ideas for helping with such a shift, including a Danish-style saturated fat tax. Specific dietary fats as a …
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  • Study of NZ fruit & vegetable prices suggests markets best value-for-money

    … generally lower at markets compared to supermarkets (with a family of four potentially saving up to $49 per week by buying at markets compared to from a supermarket). We also consider what else that central and … The inadequate consumption of fruits and vegetables is a well-known risk factor for a wide array of diseases …
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  • Charting our way back to normal

    … A new web tool, COVID-19 Pandemic Trade-offs, allows people … used our  peer reviewed agent-based model  to estimate infection rates as well as the different health losses and … across hundreds of scenarios during the vaccine rollout as a way to road test different policy options. It is an updated …
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  • A 100 years ago today a death ship from NZ arrived in Samoa: A reminder of NZ’s responsibilities to its South Pacific neighbours

    … with infectious disease surveillance and pandemic control. A recent review of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the Pacific … for another maritime spread of influenza. During a single voyage, the ship inadvertently introduced pandemic … of having sick people on board and the Talune was given a clean “bill of health”. The results of the subsequent …
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  • Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?

    … explore the arguments around such disinvestment from a public health perspective.   To understand why these … and reduced to near zero or negative by 2100. This will be a huge challenge given that global emissions have almost … of the world. But there is a bigger picture to consider. After all, “there is no place to move to should we degrade …
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  • Reducing waiting times for cataract surgery is good value-for-money for falls prevention

    … to individual fallers’ risks help to prevent falls. A key risk factor is the presence of cataracts, and cataract … unaided visual acuity in 92% of cases. However, there are often substantial wait times for cataract surgery in the NZ … so that it does not impinge on public hospital capacity as often the same pool of surgeons is involved. However, we must …
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