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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … Once a common practice, smoking prevalence has declined since its peak in … greatly over time.[3] Initially an aspirational social practice largely confined to upper class men who had the … marketing presented smoking as an attractive lifestyle practice; finally, social environments, often facilitated by …
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  • Bowel cancer screening – An interesting new US study and thoughts about the NZ situation

    … mammography for breast cancer; and faecal occult blood test and flexible sigmoidoscopy for bowel cancer. But let’s … bowel cancer incidence reduced by 22%. However, high ADR practice colonoscopy also comes with higher complications, from 6.0% to 8.9% from low to high ADR practice. Using the data from Meester et al, we calculated …
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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … Their development should draw on best international practice and careful evaluation of their effectiveness in … people had reported a new or reinfection positive COVID-19 test result out of the 2532 people employed by Te Whatu Ora … approach by stakeholders which uses international best practice to respond to an unmet health need. Health care …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … prevalence data, we modelled trends to 2025 in a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario and with mandated … 1: Estimated daily smoking prevalence among Māori for the business-as-usual (BAU) projection and as a result of a … Estimated daily smoking prevalence among non-M āori in the business-as-usual (BAU) projection and as a result of a …
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  • Smokefree outdoor areas: A missing part of Government’s new Smokefree 2025 proposals

    … Smokefree outdoor areas are not ‘business-as-usual’ for New Zealand. Current efforts for such … Legally required smokefree outdoor areas are far from ‘business-as-usual’ for NZ. While many local authorities have … law needs to cover: Make current NZ local authority best practice outdoor policies a matter of law for all Aotearoa, …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … plan around this intervention. We also explain why communications with smokers – whether on-pack or mass media – … more intensive and concerted effort, including use of best-practice media schedules to maximise the impact of policy … 12 13 No marketing manager would consider using a single communications theme for more than a decade.  Yet this has …
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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … tests. Arrivals are also required to submit a negative PCR test result carried out 72 hours or less prior to departure … Auckland, not all Aucklanders need to show a negative test to cross the boundary into other parts of NZ; there are … is with the Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington. All other authors …
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  • The science is certain: masks work. Policy and practice must support their use

    … including novel pandemic viruses for which there is no test, treatment, or vaccine. When community infection rates … preparedness. 7 Next steps to bring our policy and practice into line with evidence NZ needs to develop a … argument for requiring masks in hospitals and in General Practice and Emergency Department waiting rooms where …
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  • The urgent need for a Covid-19 Action Plan for Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … announced a policy for schools that was essentially a business-as-usual approach, advising that schools would stay … schools should be models of science-informed best practice, providing optimal environments for children and … system. Schools should be models of science-informed best practice for their communities . Building on the success of …
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  • Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation

    … after plain packaging was introduced, to provide a robust test of PWLs’ ongoing effectiveness. While we found some … groups . The Government should follow international best practice and move swiftly to introduce dissuasive cigarette … the adopting similar measures. Implications for policy and practice The Government should fill the policy void created …
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