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Media release: Treaty Principles Bill poses major risk to public health and equity
… The controversial Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill threatens public health and equity in Aotearoa New Zealand according to law …
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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 … levels of damage to human civilisation – a public health threat on a scale larger than we usually consider. … Reducing smoking means less deforestation in Africa for wood for tobacco curing. For Chinese-made cigarettes, it …
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Why don’t we make rental housing safer?
… by institutional arrangements that favour the framing of home injury as a product of individual behaviour and culpability rather than … rental housing has not been systematically regulated with health and safety requirements dispersed across multiple acts …
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Good news on declining smoking rates, especially for Māori. Is it credible? What next?
… generally fit with other evidence and are good news for health in NZ. And late today Tariana Turia has announced that … that were 463,000 current smokers on Census night in March of 2013. That is a fall in the absolute number of smokers of 22.6% since 2006 – ignoring those people not …
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Smoking prevalence and trends: important findings from the 2023-24 New Zealand Health Survey
… Summary New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2023/2024 were released on 19 … 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 …
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World moving forward on the smokefree generation - Aotearoa NZ goes backwards
… an important opportunity to protect future generations' health and wellbeing. In late 2022, the Aotearoa New Zealand … the R18 law currently in place in NZ, which prohibit sale of tobacco products to anyone aged under 18. Instead, the SFG … Wellington Dr Fiona Sing , Research Fellow, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Population Health, University of …
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Study of NZ fruit & vegetable prices suggests markets best value-for-money
… in PLOS ONE . In this blog post we elaborate on some of the details, including the finding that prices were … lower at markets compared to supermarkets (with a family of four potentially saving up to $49 per week by buying at … of fruits and vegetables – according to the most recent NZ Health Survey (see Figures below). Differential intake of …
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Media release: Prevention and treatment of mental disorders will help reduce dementia
… New Zealand who have ever been diagnosed with a mental health disorder face a significantly increased risk of developing dementia later in life, according to new … , Dr Etuini Ma’u and co-authors from the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland …
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Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?
… will be based on Healthy Together Victoria (HTV) which the Health Minister, Tony Ryall, visited on a recent trip to … be adapted for New Zealand, and will it work? The launch of Healthy Together Victoria: Victorian Minister for Health, … Hon David Davis, Prof Boyd Swinburn, Dr Alan Shiell, CEO of the Centre for Excellence in Innovation and Prevention …
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Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?
… for the ‘individual-responsibility’ explanation and (lack of) solution to the obesity epidemic. She then points to the … If you stop and ask people on the street, nine out of ten (including the overweight ones) will say that you get … treatments for obesity in children (despite Minister of Health Coleman’s assertions to the contrary), I share …
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