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Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls
… In a just published study (and accompanying evaluation summary … began funding a vaccination programme against HPV infection in 2008 [1]. After various catch-up phases, vaccination has been routinely …
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World Ventil8 Day – How do our buildings measure up?
… to raise awareness of the importance of ventilation as a crucial part of enabling health and wellbeing. Breathing clean air is so often ignored or poorly understood – and we usually only … 5 In addition, if someone in the room has a respiratory infection, a high CO 2 level indicates that you are more …
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Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame
… Control , where we have estimated the future impacts of a range of proposed novel and substantive strategies that may … the reduction in smoking prevalence. These measures are often defined as ‘tobacco endgame strategies’ (4). Examples … of these benefits being accrued in the three decades after implementation (see Figure 2). While such an …
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Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact
… be 21.4% for Māori and to 8.9% for non-Māori – compared to a projected 22.7% and 9.3% if this taxation programme had not … 2016. Prevalence reductions may be greater if we hit a ‘tipping point’ – our modelling necessarily uses … to a status quo wherein the taxation had not continued after January 2016) The news that NZ will at least continue …
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Proposals to reduce youth vaping: Important steps but a more comprehensive approach needed
… “ youth vaping rates are too high and we need to strike a better balance ”, she has requested feedback on three … which may sell a full flavour range. 4 Dairies are often visited by young people, whose potentially high … a lifestyle practice concentrated among young people and often unconnected to smoking status. The Government hopes to …
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Counting what matters: Rethinking Aotearoa's population statistics without a census
… that they were not designed for. Ethnic diversity and a rapidly ageing population combine with volatile migration flows to give each place a distinctive challenge in balancing population focused … is that they are international standards developed after lengthy experience, and endorsed by international …
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The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project
… and methods The NZ Government recently published a Discussion Document setting out a bold and comprehensive action plan for how the Smokefree … products by permitting these products to be sold only in a small number of specialised stores or pharmacies; …
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Comparing health interventions in a meaningful way – Introducing the BODE3 Interactive League Table
… cost-effectiveness – and potentially many other things. A league table is a useful tool for researchers and … to ‘see at a glance’ how health sector interventions vary (often hugely) in the health gain they can achieve, and the … they could be in one year or 50 years, and so on, after the intervention commenced in our 2011 base-year. …
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Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames
… Once a common practice, smoking prevalence has declined since its peak in the 1960s, after the serious health risks it poses became clear. … lifestyle practice; finally, social environments, often facilitated by merchandise such as ash trays from …
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Public health and Budget 2024
… by spending reductions and increased borrowing, amid a recession. This situation results in reduced funding for … was all made harder because the New Zealand economy is in a recession, which reduces tax revenue and increases some … seen as costs now benefits later. Public health measures often require investments in an unrelated area (say housing), …
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