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  • Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?

    … The NZ Ministry of Health is currently reviewing public … nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be sold legally in NZ. This consultation raises questions about how the wider … how to allow access to nicotine-containing e-cigarettes in NZ. These products could potentially increase quit rates …
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  • Establishing Long COVID services in Aotearoa NZ – what can we learn from overseas?

    … appropriate LC services in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). The need to establish Long COVID services Long COVID … hospitalised. 3-6 The number of people with LC in Aotearoa NZ is not known and predictions are difficult due to our … considerations for developing LC services in Aotearoa NZ include: Establishing a person and whānau-centred approach …
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  • The UK Government shows leadership with a Soft Drink Tax announcement

    … utility for changing New Zealand’s obesogenic environment. NZ adults consume approximately 29 teaspoons of sugar per … daily energy (about 12 teaspoons of sugar). Furthermore, NZ has the third highest rate of obesity in the OECD and many … translates to a 25p (53c) per litre tax; which (for a NZ$2.50 1L bottle) would be a ~21% price increase if …
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  • Perspective: Options for licensed retailing of nicotine-containing E-Cigarettes in NZ

    … The NZ Ministry of Health is currently consulting on options … making nicotine-containing e-cigarettes available in NZ. Therefore, this Perspective Blog briefly examines … for a very well-considered approach, given consecutive NZ Governments’ poor track record in making policy to …
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  • Testing for COVID-19 in NZ to achieve the elimination goal

    … with sewage testing. Along with a few Asian countries, NZ has adopted an elimination strategy towards the COVID-19 … pandemic (as some of us just recently detailed in a NZ Medical Journal Editorial [1]). We have been fortunate in … by scientific advice and modelling work [2]. While NZ had initially been relatively slow to scale up testing …
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  • Children and young people and COVID-19: The urgent need for improved guidance in NZ

    … large number of cases in young age-groups during NZ’s second outbreak (Figure 1). At the time of writing (26 … cases) and Outbreak 2 (August; 108 cases). Data from the NZ Ministry of Health. Changing evidence about COVID-19 risks … disease outbreaks are always shaped by context. Because NZ rapidly eliminated COVID-19 initially, we have very little …
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  • What is happening with vaping among adolescents and young adults in Aotearoa?

    … vaping among young people in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). This briefing collates the latest data on the … and behaviours among adolescents and young adults in NZ is very limited. Vaping prevalence and trends in … from the Youth 19 survey 4 5 and the ARFNZ/SPANZ Vaping in NZ Youth Survey (ARFNZ). 3   In the Youth 19 survey (2019) …
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  • Media release: Urgent action needed: Aotearoa must accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer

    … and help create a future where almost no one in Aotearoa NZ dies from this now-preventable disease. In the  latest … get on track and save lives.  Approximately 175 people in NZ are diagnosed annually with cervical cancer, with 55 … prevented through vaccination, screening, and treatment. NZ has signed up to the World Health Organization’s cervical …
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  • Is Keytruda for advanced melanoma cost-effective? Applying the BODE3 rapid cost effectiveness calculator

    … – the current ‘best’ treatment (that is not funded in NZ either). The evidence on the effectiveness of … does make an analysis of likely cost-effectiveness in the NZ setting a bit tricky, as our comparator would be yet … most importantly, pembrolizumab is expensive (maybe about NZ$200,000 per course). And there are other similar drugs …
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  • Longer-term harm from Covid-19 in children: The evidence suggests greater efforts are needed to protect children in Aotearoa NZ from infection

    … need for a precautionary approach in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) with greater efforts to prevent children from being … SARS-CoV-2 infections in different US states. 14 In NZ, it is currently still too early in the Omicron wave for … before we can quantify the likely impact in Aotearoa NZ. However, as an indication of the potential scale of …
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