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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey

    … prevalence remains unacceptably high among Māori and people experiencing higher levels of deprivation. The findings support implementing the key … sample around 14,000 adults aged 15 years and over every year. Full details of the methods and a methodology report …
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  • High regret among people who smoke reinforces strong support for smokefree legislation

    … Act). We also consider regret and desire to quit among people who smoke and conclude that not only does the … important questions about who is shaping their policy. How can ACT justify a referendum on Te Tiriti o Waitangi … greatly assist people who smoke to realise the hope so many have of becoming smokefree. Implications for public …
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  • Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action

    … there are fundamental intrinsic problems with having so many infected people in MIQ facilities. These are all converted hotel … to learn from the “science of superspreading” [21] and how such settings have contributed to recent deterioration of …
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  • Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?

    … But no one has previously looked systematically at how NZ cities support cycling and walking. Therefore, a new … egalitarian and, mostly, fun way of getting around. Many cities with high levels of cycling and walking, such as … amount and type of cycling and walking infrastructure, and people working on these areas. The key outputs are who cycles …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … the appeal and addictiveness of smoked tobacco products. How did filters become an integral component of cigarettes? … itself as a global tourism destination. As well as harming people and wildlife, tobacco product waste threatens New … environmental contamination, and in spite of evidence that many people believe cigarette butts are biodegradable, 20 21 …
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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … methods to improve the quality and causal inference of our research – more of that below.  During the week, the … If you are like me and your brain starts to hurt when people start talking about types of fat, here are the very … the ratio of things like omega 3 to omega 6 fats; how high the percentage of saturated fat is in the diet – it …
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  • Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?

    … BMC Infectious Diseases  (1). This blog briefly examines how a possible population screening programme, that tests and … cancer incidence and mortality in New Zealand.   The rate of new cases of stomach cancer presenting each year have … by age, sex and ethnicity (6). There are many considerations in designing a systematic strategy for …
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  • A Statue of Merit: Dr Margaret Cruickshank and the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … military statues which represent the racist history of the Southern United States. But in this blog we briefly … presence of the statue could cause additional suffering to many people e.g., can you imagine a statue of Hitler in any public …
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  • Would reducing the number of tobacco retail outlets achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal?

    …   Figure 1. Map of current tobacco retailers in New Zealand (n=6000) How can we achieve the 2025 goal of a smokefree nation? The … this national survey of smokers and this survey of young people ). … Would reducing the number of tobacco retail …
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  • Calling for action on suicide prevention in Aotearoa

    … Summary The Ministry of Health is inviting submissions on the second Draft Suicide … Suicide Action Plan must include. Every year almost 600 people die by suicide in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), and 75% of them …
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