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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a new Action Plan to achieve our smokefree goal

    … to quit, discouraging children and young people from initiating smoking, and encouraging smokers who … Māori (11). An important consideration for the choice of many of the measures included in the Action Plan was that … of e-cigarettes in achieving Smokefree Aotearoa 2025, and how the measures in the plan can facilitate maximising their …
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  • Vaccination is often cost-effective but not (currently) HPV vaccination for boys in NZ

    … good use of limited health sector resources.   Similar to many developed countries, routine vaccination against human … HPV-related disease, including transplant recipients and people who are HIV positive . It is probably worth … reported to be cost-saving), USA , Canada , and Iceland . How cost-effective is the fully-subsidised annual influenza …
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  • Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change

    … (NZ) in February this year, it displaced thousands of people as flooding caused landslides, ripped through homes, … Cyclone Gabrielle has provided additional lessons on how the country has neglected building resiliency into its … disposal to New Zealanders proved not to be resilient in many regions hit by Cyclone Gabrielle. Around half of those …
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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … This figure is likely to be a large underestimate as many of those who test positive at day 12 of their stay in … potential for recently arrived (and potentially infectious people) to infect those who are about to leave MIQ … Otago, for very helpful comments on a draft of this blog … How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures …
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  • Monkeypox has arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand: what is the level of risk and how do we manage it?

    … The global outbreak of monkeypox has for the first time caused widespread … 20,22 . Level of uncertainty : This criterion relates to how well-characterised and stable the threat is assessed to … the community, shown by a lack of known exposure source in many confirmed cases 18 . Several factors including the long …
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  • Digesting things further: High dietary salt intakes are almost certainly problematic

    … the previous blog post). Again, though, we struggle to see how this formula could generate a spurious U-shape curve – … but BMI does have a U-shape association with CVD risk in many studies. The PURE Study adjusted for BMI, but we suspect … Dr Nisha Nair Acknowledgements: We thank very much those people who commented on the previous blog and also those who …
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  • A National risks assessment should include pandemics and other global catastrophes

    … the NZ Government. In this blog we discuss its merits and how the process could be further advanced. In particular … This should be addressed and any concerns about ‘scaring people’ need to be set aside so that high impact but rare … but catastrophic scenarios which risk harm to very many NZ citizens and where there may be low-hanging fruit for …
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  • Young New Zealanders want a tobacco-free future - new research

    … Aotearoa’s world-leading smokefree law flies in the face of public opinion, with new research demonstrating strong … been shown to enjoy wide public support , including among people who smoke . The measures the new government is set to … shown that, rather than limiting their ‘freedom’ to smoke, many young smokers see these measures as supporting their …
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  • Food poverty for NZ teens creating an achievement lag of up to four years

    … since 2018, and this is partially explained by the number of students coming to school hungry. For the first time, the … time, PISA 2022 student wellbeing data included data on how many teenagers went hungry due to a lack of money for food, …
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  • A public health perspective on taxing harmful products

    … has set up a Tax Working Group to consider reforms of the tax system. In this blog we briefly discuss some of … the negative externalities and “tax as a tool” principles, many other products warrant consideration for tax over and … addition to harms for the drinker, various NZ studies show how important harm to others from alcohol in this country …
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