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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey

    … Survey data for 2022/2023 were released today. Daily and current smoking prevalence decreased, compared to … Overall smoking prevalence trends As outlined in Figure 1, daily smoking prevalence in 2022/23 was 6.8% (95%CI: … in the quit rate* (25.7% in 2021/22 and 26.0% in 2022/23), or the prevalence of ex-smokers (reduced from 20.5% to …
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  • Updating the role of the state: the case of housing in New Zealand

    … Government been doing to increase quality public housing and to reduce homelessness and why the public housing waiting … rentals of poorer quality with no security of tenure, or homeless. Changes in political philosophy The current … 2017, from 4 percent in 2008. In 2018-19, Housing NZ built 1,461 state rental homes, the largest number in 20 years. …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … presents a comprehensive strategy to achieve rapid and equitable reductions in smoking. The APDD includes a … to very low levels (known as very low nicotine cigarettes or VLNCs). The APDD also proposes mandating VLNCs, so that … we recently published as a pre-print on the medRxiv site . 1 Methods Using an Excel spreadsheet populated with NZ Health …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … League Table.  We walk through how to pull down tables and graphs of health gain (quality-adjusted life-years; … button. Select from listed interventions (select all, or scroll down and individually click on/off interventions).  … Interventions shown will depend on what domains (step 1) are selected.  Note that some of the interventions, for …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Good health in childhood is vital for lifelong wellbeing: time for a preventive approach

    … high rates of preventable hospitalisations, ill-health, and large health inequities among children and young people. … that do not fully reflect Te Tiriti o Waitangi obligations or Aotearoa’s cultural diversity.   Unfortunately, the direct … with larger declines during the pandemic (see Figure 1 below). Health services are working hard to improve these …
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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … to require tight control measures (vaccination, testing, and potentially some home quarantine) for people travelling … fully vaccinated who arrived from overseas this morning, or from an average Aucklander who happens to be there at the … times higher than the risk in people who are vaccinated, 1 meaning case rates in the vaccinated are reduced. Using the …
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  • More evidence that elimination is the best COVID-19 control strategy for health and the economy

    … strategy. It considers mortality data, GDP impacts, and mobility data and suggests that COVID-19 elimination … have previously been reported on by some of us in a blog [1] and in the British Medical Journal [2]. The ability of … Canadian Provinces and Territories (that used elimination or suppression strategies) did not include health outcome …
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  • Illicit tobacco trade and the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: Arguments and evidence

    … key aspects of the proposals to help inform the debate and submissions. Here we examine the illicit tobacco trade. … in reducing youth smoking uptake and increasing quitting [1]. To ensure life-saving public health policies achieve … government policies on illicit trade of tobacco products, or where illicit trade is generally accepted, also see more …
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  • How should we manage the harm caused by tobacco product waste?

    … These cigarette butts cause major environmental damage and impose significant clean-up costs on local authorities. … to a filtered option was an alternative to quitting, 1 even though filters do not reduce the risk of serious … little about how the general public perceives this problem or what they consider appropriate responses.  Our …
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  • How can we address tobacco companies’ manipulation of cigarette prices?

    … the price of tobacco thus reducing tobacco consumption and smoking prevalence. However, tobacco companies have … impact of excise taxes by creating new lower-priced brands or brand variants, and by manipulating excise tax increases … and impede development of regular smoking practices. 1-3 Acutely aware of these impacts, tobacco companies have …
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