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  • What can we learn from Healthy Housing Initiatives? New evidence from the Wellington Well Homes scheme

    … that could be related to poor housing conditions –  make a lot of sense. Since  2013, HHIs have been rolled out in … through Well Homes , low-income families are offered a visit from a health and housing assessor. The assessor will … Participants reported that some landlords  “ just often don’t see the point [of making improvements]” . …
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  • Meat, health, hospitals, and sustainability*

    … our healthcare system, and our environment are all in a state of crisis. This was summarised in the recent Ministry … recommendation for those unwell in hospital”, adding “often meat and dairy in meals is one of the best ways of … with a diet-related chronic disease? We know that there is often no better time to get smokers off tobacco than when …
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  • Seven decades of severe weather events in Aotearoa New Zealand: What are the human health impacts?

    … increase with climate change – but fortunately there are a range of preventive measures available that could lower the … in criteria for hospital admissions (eg, for cases of mild hypothermia). In our full report we present a … $1.5 billion (2020 NZ$), and total damage estimates were often substantially higher than the insurance claims alone. …
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  • Front-of-pack nutrition labels improve understanding but don’t improve healthy food choices; Starlight Trial just published

    … Health Star Rating and Traffic Light nutrition labels have a minor impact on New Zealand consumer healthy food choices, according to a randomised trial just published from our HRC-funded DIET … Information Panel label, although they appear useful for a subgroup of people who use labels a lot. Figure 2: Forest …
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  • Do Aotearoa’s new vaping regulations go far enough?

    … products to have removable or replaceable batteries, a measure that should limit sales of cheap disposable vapes … from targeted marketing that encourages uptake of a highly addictive product. 2   A Ministry of Health … despite concerns that children entering the dairy are often exposed to attractively packaged vaping products, …
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  • Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change

    … water infrastructure in this disaster and find evidence of a low level of resilience. It is clear that both central and … Gisborne Napier had only ten hours of drinking water left after Cyclone Gabrielle hit the Hawke’s Bay region cutting … lifted for Whirinaki/Esk on 6 April, more than seven weeks after the cyclone hit. There were short-lived boil water …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey

    … or vaping may help to reduce smoking prevalence as a harm-reduced alternative to smoking for people who smoke … from the 2022/23 New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS). A previous Briefing provided similar information on smoking … in the 2016/17 survey.   Full details of the methods and a methodology report are available on the Ministry of Health …
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  • Tighter controls on vape marketing due, but gaps remain

    … when vaping products were first introduced, 2 and a recent scoping review found social media sites feature … its website features several “special offers”, including a “give and get” referral promotion, which offers people who … which remains widely available and requires no licence. After all, the Smokefree 2025 goal has the dual aim of …
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  • Junk food and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Likely to produce numerous benefits in NZ

    … Poor diet is a major risk factor for excess weight gain and … and colon).[1, 3, 5, 6] The global food system is also a driver of GHG emissions,[7] meaning changes in consumer … recommended taxation of unhealthy foods and beverages as a tool to address obesity and noncommunicable diseases in …
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  • Media release: New Zealand’s hungry teens four years behind in their learning - free school lunches provide solution

    … how many meals they had missed in the past 30 days due to a lack of money to buy food. The data showed that each week 14 in every 100 Kiwi students were missing a meal at least once, and 6.5 per cent were going without … than four times. "Students who missed meals even just once a week scored much lower than their peers who never went …
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