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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … Government is obliged to protect the health and wellbeing of Māori. It is further obligated under both the United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the WHO Framework … But despite smoking rates falling since the adoption of the Smokefree 2025 target, disparities in smoking rates …
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  • Taxing sugary drinks: Empirical findings out of Mexico

    … highly anticipated purchasing data examining the impact of taxing sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) in Mexico (1). This … 12% reduction in purchases and a 4% increase in purchases of untaxed beverages one year after implementation. In this … and how these results might apply to improving the control of obesity and improving child oral health in New Zealand.   …
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  • NZ’s smart use of big data: Employment & income impacts of selected health conditions

    … New Zealand is making rapid strides in the smart use of big data to provide better health information for … Paper that considers the employment and income effects of eight health conditions. Such information could ultimately inform the best use of resources for disease prevention and treatment …
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  • The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill – a chance to submit on pivotal legislation for health in Aotearoa

    … structural changes and will be associated with a suite of new health planning and strategy documents. The aim of this blog is to introduce some key aspects of the Bill and … for organisations and workers in the health system. The Code of Consumer Participation is to support consumer …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … strategy is now threatened by the global emergence of new variants with increasingly high transmissibility. We … to keep New Zealanders safe, particularly in the light of the current outbreak risk in Wellington. Immediate actions … are now experiencing a very different pandemic from that of 2020. The Delta variant now accounts for 99% of Covid-19 …
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  • Regulating vaping and new nicotine products: Are tobacco companies’ goals aligned with public health objectives?

    … 2025 researchers summarised the strengths and limitations of the Bill, and concluded that it contained several … measures, yet could do more to protect the health of children, young people and non-nicotine users. This blog – … further promote discussion – summarises emerging evidence of British American Tobacco’s ambitious plans for its …
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  • Is youth vaping a problem in New Zealand?

    … ago has not resulted in big declines in the proportion of people who smoke, or had more than a modest impact on quit … population health, we must also consider the second area of debate: vaping’s likely impact on non-smokers. Non-smokers … risks from long-term use (although the natural history of vaping among youth and long-term health effects are highly …
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  • Youth vaping addiction: How it happens and why it matters

    … New Zealand is higher than in comparable countries — 15% of 15-17 year olds vape every day. Nicotine causes minimal … responses need to reflect the highly addictive nature of vaping, particularly in young people, and mitigate risks … of vaping harm.   What are the implications for policy and practice? The highly addictive nature of nicotine vaping has …
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  • Mounting complexities in the dietary salt & health relationship

    … has recently been reported in the New England Journal of Medicine . While reinforcing extensive past work that a (very) high intake of salt is hazardous to health – an increased hazard was also found for low intakes of salt (i.e., a “J-shaped” or “U-shaped” relationship). This …
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  • Highly variable cost-effectiveness with disease characteristics and age: Herceptin as a Case Study

    … about the health gains, costs, and cost-effectiveness of Herceptin. It isn’t about Herceptin in that the key point is far more general: in the age of personalised and precision medicine, our country’s funding … something gets funded, something else doesn’t. In clinical practice, personalised medicine means that medical decisions …
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