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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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  • Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

    … This Briefing reports the findings and implications of a study focused on LGBTIQ+ people’s experiences of housing instability.  Housing needs to be viewed as a human right.  At a minimum, we need political changes such as greater …
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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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  • The Smokefree 2025 goal is in danger of receding – will the Ministry of Health’s ‘realignment’ get it back on track?

    … progress New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal. However, will a ‘realignment’ of existing services ensure the goal is realised? In this blog, based on a recently published letter in the New Zealand Medical … supported recommendations (7), full implementation has often not occurred. For example, expenditure on mass media …
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  • COVID-19 hospitalisation peaks in Australian States since Omicron emerged: potential relevance to Aotearoa NZ

    … at 424 people. Applying the Australian experience to NZ on a per capita basis would suggest peaks of 1,107 people in NZ … developing NZ Omicron wave. Australia is in the middle of a COVID-19 wave, predominantly fuelled by the new Omicron … in Australia on the 28 November 2021, just three days after it was first identified by South African  scientists. …
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  • Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study

    … A just published modelling study by the BODE 3 Team has … and removing tripping hazards in homes) appears to be a very cost-effective health sector intervention. But even … people with previous injurious falls. In this blog we take a closer look at this intervention and consider what …
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