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  • Unaffordable home heating increases risk of severe mental distress

    … Summary The cost-of-living crisis is placing more people at risk of … warm dry housing, we risk worsening mental health outcomes for our population. Cold housing is a significant public … depression and anxiety — across  40,000 households over time. The researchers focused on people who had at one point …
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  • Taxes on fizzy drinks in NZ: preventing premature deaths and raising funds for health

    … and subsidies .  Change the price of one food, and not only does its consumption change, but also the consumption of … to create an environment that is maximally beneficial for society – all, or as many as possible, members of … alongside other issues such as societal values. It also makes sense for researchers to outline plausible policy …
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  • A major new study on Kiwi health – can it inform decision-making?

    … also been covered by Radio NZ (3’12”)  and TVNZ (4’09”).) The Ministry of Health has just released a major new burden of disease study for 2006, a culmination of a large epidemiological stocktake … with the bath water. Burden of disease studies are not only of epidemiological importance, they are also incredibly …
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  • Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed

    … findings. In this Briefing, we examine new data from the ASH Year 10 Snapshot survey and explore trends in smoking … new nicotine users. The findings indicate an urgent need for stronger policies that protect young people from both … smoke each day (i.e., 1.2% of Y10 students). Even if only a small proportion of the 58,694 students who have never …
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  • Engaging online simulator of measles outbreaks (& how NZ needs to do better in eliminating measles)

    … To help explain the concept of ‘herd immunity’, The Guardian Newspaper has … a community at 90% will not – that’s the effect of chance. For a community to be really safe from a measles outbreak it … the last reporting period (October to December 2015) was only 83.0% nationally (5). Also there was a gradient by …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Good health in childhood is vital for lifelong wellbeing: time for a preventive approach

    … action on childhood immunisation .   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective … quickly. Childhood provides essential foundations for lifelong health . However even before the COVID-19 … even more pressure on a health system. This pressure makes it challenging for the health system to be geared …
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  • Red meat & processed meat: Summarising the Public Health isues

    … of the World Health Organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has recently evaluated the … bacon-eaters” ( http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34615621 ) Only 12.7% of the NZ adult population ‘Never consumed (or not … herbivore fish farming). Conclusions There is now strong scientific evidence of an increased risk of colorectal cancer …
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  • Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status

    … In this blog we comment on the current COVID-19 situation globally and in NZ. We focus … help accelerate rapid progress back to elimination status for NZ while minimising disruption of economic activity and … for a revised Alert Level system (below Level 3) that makes better use of mass masking, travel restrictions and …
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  • “Nudging” to improve QR scanning and mask wearing to protect us all during a pandemic

    … of Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID-19 elimination strategy is the rapid identification and then management of any COVID-19 … Alert Levels, this blog considers the supplementary role for social marketing and environmental strategies that could … alters the “choice architecture” people encounter and makes some actions easier to perform than others. Examples of …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … Summary This blog considers recent studies in which the biomarker levels in e-cigarette users (vapers) are … also a likely determinant of what toxicants they inhale. For example, there is evidence that vapers take longer … studies. So our review of the literature focused on only very recent studies (since 1 January 2015) and just on …
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