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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … Summary Youth populations worldwide are experiencing a mental health crisis. The 2024 World Happiness report (WHR24) found a steep decline in the mental wellbeing of youth. Findings … pressing issue by successive governments, yet actions have often remained partisan. Cross-party action must be a …
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  • Prevention and treatment of mental disorders will help reduce dementia

    … yet unmet need for services has also grown, highlighting a care gap. The evidence underscores the need for early, … and untreated depression. Secondly, factors that reduce cognitive reserve, the brain’s ability to tolerate damage: … compared to those rating their health as excellent, even after accounting for existing physical or mental health …
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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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  • Potential health co-benefits from eradicating rats, stoats and possums in NZ towns and cities

    … possums in New Zealand, seems increasingly feasible with a new national 2050 goal and action at the city level eg, … resilience measure (eg, in Wellington), but such water is often of poor microbiological quality in NZ with some of the … Although predator-prey relationships are complex and often not well understood (24), the eradication of rats and …
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  • Earth Overshoot Day: Should Aotearoa New Zealand be more like Uruguay?

    … widespread unsustainable practices, especially compared to a country like Uruguay, whose overshoot day is 17 December.  While overshoot day is a vivid communication tool, it simplifies complex systems and … practices. Central and Local Government could advance a range of policies to minimize unsustainable resource use in …
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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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  • Communicating public health evidence – a successful first year for the PHCC

    … Summary It has been a year since the launch of the Public Health Communication … of health, which are unfortunately a force that often works against public health interests in many areas … The commercial determinants of health are a force that often works against long-term public health interests – along …
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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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  • Carcinogen exposure in Aotearoa workplaces is unacceptably high

    … and creating an Aotearoa Occupational Health Service, with a focus on establishing lifetime access to screening and … work-related cancer is fraught with difficulty. There is often a long latency period between exposure at work and the … problem for work-related cancers that occur many years after exposure; the onus for monitoring the health of workers …
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  • How taking an evidence-informed approach can be used to prioritise interventions: The example of cardiovascular disease

    … that have been studied for NZ. For example, we show a combined fruit and vegetable subsidy plus a sugar tax produces estimated lifetime savings of 894,000 … perspective – given that government decision-making is often driven by ideological factors or for short-term …
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