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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … modelling work has explored business-as-usual trends in smoking prevalence, and the potential roles of … per annum increases in tobacco tax alone will not be able to achieve the 2025 Goal. In this blog post we outline our favoured package to achieve the 2025 Goal which is ongoing increases in …
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  • Urgent action needed to help eliminate cervical cancer in Aotearoa

    … World Health Organization (WHO) has set an ambitious goal to eliminate a cancer as a public health problem. Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) committed to this goal in 2020. Four years on, NZ has made some great strides but is …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … product : the cigarillo “Chesterfield Leaf”, has led many to ask how launching a cheaper cigarette-like product fits with … companies with extreme suspicion. Tobacco companies have long held the dubious distinction of belonging to one of the …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning

    … Associate Minister of Education, David Seymour wants to cut funding to the Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunch … it does not improve attendance or school achievement.  In part two of a three-part series, we highlight that the … groups with whānau and high school students to document how the programme reduces financial hardship and discussed …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … From today, all tobacco products in New Zealand will start appearing in standardised, or … whether on-pack or mass media – must be salient and timely to have strong and continuing impact on supporting quitting. … smokers over time and could provide rich insights into how existing smokers respond to standardised packaging. 10 …
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  • Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: Five key ways to reduce the massive health and social costs

    … at $15.6 billion. Fortunately there are many ways to reduce air pollution and we discuss five key ones in this blog. These range from free public transport to … pollution incurs on New Zealanders’ health as well as the economy. Five key solutions For potential solutions, we …
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  • Establishing Long COVID services in Aotearoa NZ – what can we learn from overseas?

    … Long COVID (LC) is becoming a substantial issue … many countries are establishing dedicated health services to support people with the condition. In this blog, we … able to adapt to the changing context of COVID-19, LC and how the NZ population is responding to LC is paramount. …
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  • Health system costs in NZ: variation by sex, age & proximity to death

    … This blog aims to discuss a study we recently published on NZ health system … Second, there is much less variability by age for costs in the last year of life – indeed, the ‘costs of dying’ peak … for the total NZ population An important policy issue is how health system costs will grow in the future, due to …
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  • Open data, transparency and power – role of the Virtual Health Information Network

    … Government is showing strong leadership on data sharing. In this blog we describe some of the opportunities and the challenges in this new data environment. We focus on how the Virtual Health Information Network (VHIN) can contribute to stronger health research and therefore benefit the health …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … smoked tobacco products could have on smoking prevalence in Aotearoa New Zealand. A policy requiring that all smoked … 2025 Goal. The document presents a comprehensive strategy to achieve rapid and equitable reductions in smoking. The APDD includes a proposal to reduce nicotine in smoked tobacco products to very low …
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