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  • Period Drama: How to Address Period Poverty in Aotearoa

    … additional difficulties because products like tampons and pads are priced out of reach. Period poverty impacts Kiwis everyday and is often … poverty refers to the specific impact of material poverty on girls, women, trans, and non-binary people who menstruate …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey

    … was particularly marked among younger age groups, Māori and Pacific peoples, and people living in the most deprived … can be highly addictive. Despite strengthened regulation of vaping products (see Appendix ) recent rapid increases in … and health workers. This Briefing summarises key findings on vaping prevalence from the 2022/23 New Zealand Health …
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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … Organization put out their widely anticipated guidelines on sugar intake for consultation. In this blog, we review some of the underlying evidence on the health harm of sugar, and then pull back to consider the diet in total. There are …
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  • Unsafe waters: The hidden Campylobacter infection risk in rural New Zealand

    … Summary While urban areas benefit from treated and regulated public water supplies, rural communities often depend on untreated sources like wells, boreholes, and rainwater. … who rely on private water sources face a higher risk of waterborne diseases such as Campylobacter infection. This …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … means for public health. Despite the partial exemption of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), the TPP agreement as a whole applies to tobacco, and breaches of the TPP might, in principle, be alleged in … inconsistent with Article 5.3 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (the World Health Organization treaty, of …
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  • Fighting cold, damp housing – a big tick for Warmer Kiwi programme

    … use, result in warmer, drier living areas in winter, and can help to lower respiratory illness. Motu Research has … using heat pumps reduces electricity use by 16 percent on average over winter months and is effective at creating … in Aotearoa. The programme will also be lowering the risk of respiratory disease caused by our damp, cold houses. …
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  • World moving forward on the smokefree generation - Aotearoa NZ goes backwards

    … government repealed measures in the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act (SERPA) … In this Briefing, we contrast differing policy positions on the smokefree generation, explore their rationale, … the R18 law currently in place in NZ, which prohibit sale of tobacco products to anyone aged under 18. Instead, the SFG …
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  • The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality

    … nothing like being second to Australia to galvanize angst and consternation among Kiwis. Today Alafeishat and … the situation really is, the problems and possible sources of error comparing survival across the ditch (it is not easy … life expectancy – so there are a lot of good things going on. Cancer survival trends by site (data provided by us, but …
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  • Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?

    … The NZ Ministry of Health is currently reviewing public submissions on options that would allow nicotine-containing e-cigarettes … for the indoor areas covered by current smokefree laws and policies. It is timely that the Ministry of Health is …
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  • Young New Zealanders want a tobacco-free future - new research

    … Aotearoa’s world-leading smokefree law flies in the face of public opinion, with new research demonstrating strong … from those who will ultimately be most affected -─ teens and young adults. In this Briefing we report these new … which none of the coalition parties actively campaigned on. The Smokefree 2025 goal, and associated legislation and …
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