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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 1)

    … due to over-detection and other issues. In today’s Part 1 blog, Caroline and Diana outline the issues. In the Part 2 … annually.The debate comes down to three issues. These are: 1. How much, if at all, does screening reduce breast cancer … be incurred? We talk through these issues in this Part 1 blog. How much does mammographic screening reduce breast …
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  • Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?

    … bans already exist in many places within the USA (eg, (1)), with most overlapping with smokefree areas. Similarly, … case against restricting vaping in indoor public places 1) The potential value of shifting smokers to become vapers … nicotine-free. The case for indoor smokefree = vapefree 1) Vaping generates potentially hazardous “second-hand …
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  • Severe domestic squalor in Aotearoa New Zealand: A preliminary survey

    … consider the house to be unsuitable for human occupation. 1  An extreme example is where “the home is cluttered with … has been defined as ‘severe domestic squalor’. 1  Common features for people living in these conditions … fire risk. 6  In Australia it is estimated that 0.1% of people aged 65 years and older live in conditions of …
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  • Monitoring and forecasting the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand including the successful impact of the lockdown

    … Dr Jaijus Pallippadan-Johny 1 , Dr John McDermott 2 , Rodney Jones 1 and Michael Duddin 1 ( 1 Wigram Capital Advisors, Auckland; 2 Motu Economic and …
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  • Mobile phone use while driving: Do we need smartcars that turn off smartphones?

    … 9520 cars in moving traffic, the use of mobile phones was 1.9% (95%CI: 1.6-2.2%) and 1.3% (95%CI: 1.1-1.6%) respectively. The difference between …
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  • What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes and public health

    … over and above the tax on other food and beverages (Figure 1). In April 2014 the Cook Islands adopted a NZ$9.80 tax per … of the research, harms and potential benefits. Figure 1: Typical level of sugar-sweetened beverage tax (USD) on a … of Micronesia, and Kiribati are calculated based on a US$1 price for a can of Coke. Tokelau has an import ban on …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … that vapers take longer inhalations than do smokers (eg, 1-4). Further, many models of vaporisers have adjustable … the literature focused on only very recent studies (since 1 January 2015) and just on biomarker studies (a more … suggest a very diverse range of results as shown in Table 1, but all suggest lower levels of risk for vapers compared …
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  • Tobacco industry ‘transformation’ – more smoke and mirrors?

    … on an article examining tobacco industry transformation 1 from the Tobacco Control 30 th anniversary issue and … world , and helping people who smoke to ‘unsmoke’ (Figure 1). Similarly, in 2020, British American Tobacco (BAT) … Brands and Altria have made similar claims. Figure 1: source …
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  • Surviving winter: NZ’s journey through 145 years of seasonal survival – New study

    … age- and sex-standardised EWM Index (EWMI) increased from 1.20 during 1886-1917 to 1.34 in the 1920s, before gradually decreasing to 1.14 in the 2010s. In percentage terms, there was a …
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  • Preparing for Omicron: A proactive Government response is urgently needed to minimise harms

    … have continued to decline to around 30 cases a day (Figure 1). This decline is also reflected in hospitalised cases (and … as opposed to changes in case detection (Figure 2). Figure 1: New Zealand’s 7-day average of Covid-19 cases in the community (confirmed and probable) (from 1 February 2020 to 16 January 2022 from Ministry of Health …
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