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  • Happiness surveys, & can health sector interventions improve well-being?

    … (Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University) is a world renown economist, and it is published by the United … Development Solutions Network. There has also been a growing (re)focus on happiness as the goal of living and … were the second most important cause of health loss after coronary heart disease. Actually for New Zealand women …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … long-term effects of e-cigarette use on health outcomes, a lot more future research will be needed to get a reasonable … (median), 67.8% (mean) Carnevale et al 2016 [ 7 ] (and after additional communication with the authors around … models to human health risk is not always clear and it is often difficult to translate these animal model results into …
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  • New Zealand’s hard-won improvements to our Building Code must be retained: Here’s why

    … the building code standards that were brought in last year after extensive consultation and with almost universal … has been geared around the new standards, but the cost of a rollback would not just affect industry, it will impact … The current “H1” building code standards were introduced after extensive and exhaustive consultation. The consultation …
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  • Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis

    … Dr Stefanie Vandevijvere, Professor Boyd Swinburn A panel of 71 independent and government experts have … in tackling the child obesity crisis.   According to a 2017 OCED Report New Zealand is still the third fattest … in New Zealand in April-May 2017. The Food-EPI as a rigorous tool and process to measure implementation gaps …
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  • High levels of CO2 found in small study of early childhood centres: Improving ventilation in the time of COVID-19

    … alongside many other developing countries, has seen a dramatic increase of children in early childhood education … education 3 . There have also been high levels of Covid-19 infection and hospitalisation rates in this age group 4 . … High levels are linked to poor concentration, impaired cognitive performance, and higher rates of absenteeism 8 ,9 . …
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  • The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality

    … Kiwis. Today Alafeishat and colleagues have published a paper in the NZ Medical Journal showing that New Zealand … Alafeishat and colleagues essentially repeated a study led by David Skegg (published in 2002), comparing … between Australia and New Zealand, especially for survival after one year (which points to differences in early …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … with dementia is expected to double in the next 20 years – a major health and economic issue. Since age is the biggest … change is only a very incomplete answer. These risks often begin early in life, are linked to social disadvantage, … and untreated depression. Secondly, factors that reduce cognitive reserve, the brain’s ability to tolerate damage: …
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  • Tackling child poverty: will the nation’s political leaders honour Richie Poulton’s legacy?

    … the Dunedin Study has highlighted the enduring and often profound impact of individuals’ early life experiences … Aotearoa New Zealand have implemented, with some success, a range of anti-poverty measures, the issue of child poverty … campaign. Moreover, a National-led government, if formed after the election, has indicated it will repeal some of the …
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  • Media release: Aotearoa NZ reaches ‘Earth Overshoot Day’ - Time to act for a more sustainable future

    … Health Communication Centre explains how we can achieve a more ecologically sustainable society that also supports … ecological resources exceeds what Earth can regenerate in a year, highlighting the urgent need for a shift towards more sustainable practices. If everyone lived …
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  • Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?

    …   Image from a World Health Organization poster In a modelling study we … but also which (ii) banned e-cigarette sales in 2027 (after making e-cigarette sales legal from 2015 from … smart policy (the latter sometimes happens in NZ – but not often in contested areas e.g., look at NZ’s moribund …
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