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The case for denicotinising tobacco in Aotearoa NZ remains strong: response to online critique
… This blog responds to a recent online critique of a study that modelled how key components of the Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan would affect smoking prevalence. Given the interest in the study due to developments with the Action Plan and …
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Where do the parties stand? Addressing Māori health inequity
… Summary We look at questions of Māori health equity in the fourth in the series “Where do the parties stand?”. The party responses to the Public Health Communication Centre survey need to be … won't lead to better outcomes.” Te Pāti Māori Outlined how it had campaigned strongly on the introduction of a Māori …
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Where do the parties stand? Taxes to protect health and reduce inequity
… ensuring that wealthier citizen contribute appropriately to the collective good. While all parties support an element … overseas.” Support for the ETS is consistent with the long-term policy of this party and reform to include on-farm … pays taxes: The response referred to the ETS but not to how it could be made to work better. Another subsequent …
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What is happening with vaping among adolescents and young adults in Aotearoa?
… the increasing prevalence of vaping among young people in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this article, we collate the … vaping (2015-2022). 1 The survey did not occur in 2020 due to COVID-19. Figure 1: Year 10 (14-15 years) daily smoking … regular smoking prevalence declined dramatically from 1999 to 2016 (daily smoking from 16% to 3% and regular smoking …
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Long COVID: Century-old Lessons We Still Have Not Learned
… This long-read blog updates what is known about long COVID – now … aspects of long COVID are its high prevalence (up to 30% of those infected) and, as reinfection is increasingly … 67 days 37 . A much smaller study focused specifically on how neurologic symptoms evolved among long COVID patients who …
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The changing COVID-19 situation in Taiwan – what can NZ learn from Taiwan’s latest outbreak?
… an assessment of Taiwan’s extremely effective response to COVID-19 during 2020. However, a recent surge of community … variants. We therefore recommend a range of short-term and long-term upgrades to NZ’s pandemic defences that we believe … We have previously made several recommendations for how NZ can enhance its COVID-19 response, 4, 24 and expand on …
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“Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques
… play in achieving the Smokefree 2025 goal and examines how measures in the Action Plan will support people who smoke to either quit or to transition fully from smoking to vaping. … might otherwise have quit smoking altogether instead adopt long-term ‘dual use’ of e-cigarettes and smoked tobacco …
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Ten things we can learn from new smoking and vaping data about progress to Smokefree Aotearoa 2025
… Health Survey data show some encouraging recent reductions in smoking prevalence. However, progress remains inadequate to achieve the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal and the government needs to take urgent action, particularly to reduce marked …
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Five actions to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, with a focus on Auckland
… Regardless of whether Auckland returns to Covid-19 elimination or transitions to a suppression … lack of trust in officials; and the multiple effects of long-term poverty, deprivation and crowded and precarious … urgent meeting to review Covid-19 containment measures and how they can be further enhanced in Auckland. This meeting …
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Backing off international infant formula standards: A retrograde step
… Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes aims to contribute to the provision of safe and adequate nutrition … product affordability. In this Briefing, we describe how the commercial milk formula industry undermines infant … is optimal infant feeding and has many short-and long-term health benefits. In New Zealand, only 17-22% of …
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