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  • Communicating public health evidence: Two highly productive years for the PHCC

    … have grouped Briefing topics into 20 broad areas (Figure 3 and Appendix ). The most frequent topics reflect responses to pandemic threats 3 and epidemic threats such as measles . 4 There were also … most frequent words from the first 150 Briefings   Figure 3: Number of Briefing articles by primary broad topic area, …
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  • Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?

    … market in the USA and many South Asian countries. 1 3 In contrast, NZ has disallowed the sale of oral tobacco … 7 Examples of product presentation are shown in Figure 3.  Figure 2: Tobacco-free nicotine pouches (credit: snubie.com )                    Figure 3: Oral nicotine flavours and marketing, pouches (left) and …
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  • The allure of a Virtual Supermarket for public health nutrition research

    … products (I can have chocolate after I eat my broccoli) [3,4]. Now, the question is how to study taxing effects … Virtual Supermarket comes in The Virtual Supermarket is a 3-D computer simulation of a real supermarket. It has images … you would normally find in a supermarket located on 3-D shelves. People can navigate their trolley around the …
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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … and breathlessness many months after their infection 3 . Common ongoing symptoms of Long COVID include fatigue or … using this service? (n=9)   Yes 9 100% No   0 0% Question 3.  How have you seen patients improving because of this … Functional Status Scale (PCFS) impact score improvement 3 33% Not applicable (I am not actively treating patients …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 1)

    … Have the treatment advances in breast cancer in the last 3 decades meant that any advantage of screening (early detection) is now no longer relevant? 3. What is the amount of over-diagnosis (that is, the extra … (2), the  Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (3) and the UK Independent Review (4). These organisations all …
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  • World Ventil8 Day – How do our buildings measure up?

    … of effective building ventilation is directly linked to 3.8 million deaths worldwide every year . In Aotearoa New … it is estimated that air pollution is responsible for 3,317 premature deaths each year and is linked to an estimated 13,155 hospitalisations. 3 Ventilation in NZ In NZ, most homes rely on natural …
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  • Regulating vaping and new nicotine products: Are tobacco companies’ goals aligned with public health objectives?

    … for its youth-oriented marketing of e-cigarettes in NZ.[3] Some school principals claim there is a concerning rise in … low, it too increased between 2018 and 2019, from 1.8% to 3.1% .[4] These findings suggest BAT’s “new entrants” in New … than 6 months”), and increasing in prevalence (Figure 3). Figure 3. Source: [1] The 2019 investor presentation also …
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  • Update on Long-COVID

    … 2 and refer to the misery of “the long haulers” 3 … [T]here is enough coherence to the current evidence to … after a diagnosis of acute COVID-19 were readmitted and 12.3% (5875) died after discharge; this is four and eight times … (9.1%). Multi-system involvement was less common (11.3%). Cirulli et al 8 reported on an adult population cohort …
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  • Regulation of alcohol marketing is needed to meet health, wellbeing and equity goals

    … as well as physical and is distributed inequitably, 2,3 contributing to wider health and social inequities. Social … costs of alcohol harm have been estimated to be more than 3% of GDP. 4 The case for regulation of alcohol marketing is … marketing in the local environment and in digital media, 3. The failure of self-regulation, 4. Our failure to afford …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning

    … the integral role of school staff in programme success 3 , delved into whether it can be successfully implemented in … 55 points for students who feel hungry every day (Figure 3).   Figure 3. Percentages of Year 5 students in Aotearoa New Zealand …
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Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)