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  • Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive

    … a book later this year ( The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in New Zealand ; AUP) that looks in depth at the fascinating story of mortality decline in New Zealand. The path to low … by looking at some data just released by the Ministry of Health on trends since 1945 in cause-specific mortality. …
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  • What the fizz! A week of dealing to sugary drinks in NY and NZ

    … A curious week in the world of soft drinks. The surprising darling of public health action on soft drinks, New York, suffered a … health board had gone too far in stopping sales of non-diet soda and other sugar-laden beverages in …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: important findings from the 2023-24 New Zealand Health Survey

    … November. For the first time in a decade, the prevalence of daily smoking did not decline in Aotearoa, sitting at 6.9% … Pacific peoples, and people experiencing higher levels of deprivation. These findings demonstrate that the … areas, we will not reach a daily smoking prevalence of less than 5% for all population groups by 2025.  Smoking …
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  • Worth its weight: Building insulation in New Zealand

    … that the NZ Government is still undervaluing the benefits of building performance and insulation standards. This is … and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Minister of Building and Housing is arguing against improving building performance. He suggests that the health benefits of improving insulation in rental housing from 1978 standards …
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  • Warmest New Zealand winter ever recorded – The Government should do more on climate change

    … to the 1860s ( full report ). This is good news in lots of ways. Warmer winters mean more comfort, more time … may become more common with climate change in some parts of NZ But fundamentally the changing seasons for New Zealand and elsewhere are symptomatic of an extremely serious problem, that of global climate …
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  • Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?

    … at Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred out by Google’s algorithm for … “Tobacco Control”. In this blog we briefly consider some of the research possibilities of this tool of relevance to public health. Using Google …
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  • Alcohol and suicide: The facts

    … international evidence.   There is a well-established body of research from New Zealand and overseas that clearly links … increased suicide risk. This Briefing provides a summary of key evidence in response to mental health campaigner, Mike … use and alcohol dependence are associated with subsequent development of depressive symptoms. 6 7 Although the causal …
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  • Why are some preventable cancer deaths in Māori and Pacific peoples increasing?

    … as some favourable trends. In this blog we discuss some of the key findings of this research and what the options are for NZ society to … journal BMC Cancer. The results show a changing pattern of ethnic inequalities in cancer in New Zealand. 1 For every …
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  • How much revenue would a New Zealand sugary drink tax raise? And how might be best to do it?

    … New Zealand towards adopting a sugary drink tax. As part of the policy briefing prepared for this FIZZ Symposium, we … UK will implement a tiered levy based on the sugar content of drinks on the beverage industry (more on this at the end of this blog). For a general background on sugary drink …
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  • Media release: What can we do to reduce the number of babies dying before, during or soon after birth?

    … than 700 fetal and neonatal deaths in 2021, that’s a rate of 11.2 per 1000 births according to the Perinatal and … prevention, optimisation and preparation in the management of preterm birth would lower neonatal and perinatal mortality, especially if equity of outcomes is addressed. Preterm birth is one of the leading …
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