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  • Meat, health, hospitals, and sustainability*

    … In this blog, I look at the case for reducing the amount of meat in hospital meals and gently remind our dietitian colleagues not to let their … systems in high income countries where there is no meat on the menu at all: Loma Linda University Hospital in …
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  • How did Government and Opposition MPs justify and oppose repealing the smokefree endgame measures?

    … would have greatly reduced the addictiveness, availability and accessibility of smoked tobacco. This decision did not heed advice from the … policies were unnecessary and claimed Aotearoa was “ on track ” to achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal.  Our smoking …
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  • Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?

    … We have just published research on the health gains and cost-savings from various legally … the results and put the findings in a wider context of how New Zealand might reach its Smokefree 2025 goal.   …
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  • Smokefree Laws: Reducing tobacco outlets will decrease crime

    … to provide either evidence or logic to justify the repeal of world-leading smokefree legislation. Instead, they have … ram raids targeting tobacco products, a claim based on anecdote. In this Briefing, we examine police data on ram raids, which suggests these crimes are decreasing and that only a minority target tobacco products. We also …
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  • Surviving winter: NZ’s journey through 145 years of seasonal survival – New study

    … period (from 1876 to 2020). We found that the average age- and sex-standardised EWM Index (EWMI) increased from 1.20 … was a favourable decline in winter excess deaths from 7.9% of annual deaths in the 1920s, down to 4.5% in the 2010s … declined across both winter and non-winter periods. Year-on-year variation in mortality rates reduced overall, but …
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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 … even further following the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change . These international bodies highlight that …
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  • Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study

    … the BODE 3 Team has reported that “home safety assessment and modification” (e.g., adding hand rails and removing … doing in response to the evidence.   The NZ Burden of Disease Study (NZBDS) reported that falls cause 10% of all … tub or shower and next to the toilet, adding hand rails on both sides of stairways, and improving home lighting (4). …
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  • Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”

    … a letter home. I have now been full-time at the University of Melbourne since 2019. Before that, I was 20 years at the … your Australian correspondent. Life as an epidemiologist and public health medicine specialist in Victoria, as a … my perspective – without privilege to the inner workings on COVID-19 management. Image by  TUBS / CC BY-SA Australia …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Where the sun enters, the doctor does not

    … energy efficient heaters; reducing avoidable home injuries and improving building standards . This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly.   To keep well, everybody needs …
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  • Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study

    … We have just published a modelling study on exercise programmes in NZ to prevent falls in older … . Falls among older people are common, with high morbidity and mortality impacts. Yet there are interventions that can reduce the risk of falls. In this blog we examine some programme options. …
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