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  • Alcohol-related harms now available on demand

    … Summary Alcohol is one of the major causes of health loss in Aotearoa NZ. It is now … – within two hours from ordering. This Briefing summarises the evidence for potential harm that this easy access may contribute to. It also describes some of the regulatory reforms to alcohol legislation that the NZ …
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  • Earth Overshoot Day: Should Aotearoa New Zealand be more like Uruguay?

    … Summary Earth overshoot day marks the date when human resource consumption surpasses the capacity of ecosystems to regenerate. Globally this date … 1.8 Earths to sustain current patterns of consumption in the long term. Aotearoa New Zealand's overshoot day for 2025 …
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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … Summary Cabinet has approved in principle the sale of oral tobacco products (e.g. snus) and oral … cessation aids is limited, especially when compared with the quality of evidence supporting the use and efficacy of Medsafe-approved nicotine replacement …
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  • Physical activity or nutrition interventions: which can improve population health the most and save the most health dollars?

    … of Parliament last week on taxes and subsidies on food, the pros and cons ( slides here ). In this blogpost we go … in terms of health gain and potential for cost savings to the health system. This presentation arose because Diabetes … and subsidies, and how challenging they are to model. The discussions also ranged more widely to other …
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  • Youth vaping addiction: How it happens and why it matters

    … life and daily rituals. Policy responses need to reflect the highly addictive nature of vaping, particularly in young … people, and mitigate risks of vapers turning to smoking. The definition of vaping harm needs to include psychological, … financial and social impacts, as well as physical harm. The Government should assist schools to take a health …
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  • Perspective: Options for licensed retailing of nicotine-containing E-Cigarettes in NZ

    … The NZ Ministry of Health is currently consulting on options … options: pharmacies and vape shops. It also highlights the need for a very well-considered approach, given … country and has seen problems such as not infrequent law breaking, eg, illegal sales to young people by outlets such …
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  • Lessons from Canada for NZ: Carbon, Cycling, Tobacco, Nutrition and Cannabis

    … this blog we briefly look at 6 potential lessons for NZ in the domains of: (i) responding to climate change; (ii) … on various health and social issues. For these reasons the Canadian policy experience may be relevant to NZ and be … charges on greenhouse gas emissions can be popular with the public if revenues are given back to citizens [1]. This …
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  • Bowel cancer screening – An interesting new US study and thoughts about the NZ situation

    … published in a top US journal (JAMA). We discuss the cost-effectiveness of such screening and consider the current NZ context for bowel cancer screening.   The US health system is renowned for doing things fully – …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … evidence and puts it into a NZ context. Nitrate is one of the most common drinking water contaminants in NZ, largely … over nitrate contamination. 1-3 Our recent study of the current nitrate levels in NZ drinking water showed as … nitrate above 1 mg/L. These nitrate levels are far below the current drinking water nitrate limit of 11.3 mg/L set by …
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  • A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’

    … In keeping with the issues covered in this week’s new book “ Appetite for … researchers and NGOs are developing to get us on the road to implementation of smart food policies in New … a clear way towards creating appetite for health through the solutions outlined in this new book by Morgan and …
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