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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: counterarguments to industry claims

    … 2025 goal and proposes substantially reducing the number of retailers selling tobacco. In this blog, we examine … businesses. Opponents of retail reductions claim that people who go to dairies to buy cigarettes typically spend … carried out with independent small retailers suggests many would prefer not to sell tobacco, and would accept a …
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  • How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    … speaking there are two benefits to vaccination; protection of the individual and protection of the community (by … homes Everyone 80 and over and front-line health workers People aged 75 and over People aged 70 and over and … Image by  torstensimon  from  Pixabay … How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New …
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  • “Nudging” to improve QR scanning and mask wearing to protect us all during a pandemic

    … marketing and environmental strategies that could “nudge” people towards these protective behaviours. Image by Luke … across varied settings raises important questions about how compliance could be improved in settings where scanning … and mask wearing occur. This approach recognises that many behaviours are not planned but occur in response to …
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  • Communicating public health evidence – a successful first year for the PHCC

    … and improve the health, well-being, and equity of the people of Aotearoa New Zealand and the health of the … force that often works against public health interests in many areas including food and alcohol policy, environmental … principles of public health ( The public health lens ) and how this perspective can make a tangible difference in the …
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  • Implementing healthy food environment policies in Aotearoa

    … best practice, but New Zealand falls short in many areas including for healthy food and drinks in all … a comprehensive multi-sector food systems strategy and for people to have sufficient income to make healthy food choices … survey is urgently needed. This briefing outlines how we conducted Food-EPI in Aotearoa NZ . It looks …
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  • Modelling tobacco tax – implications of BODE3 paper just out, and personal reflections on the research journey

    … We have previously published research and blogs showing how – as best we can model – that ongoing 10% per annum … and younger smokers are more price responsive, so the people responding to tax are young and decades away from … the impact of interventions on population health for many reasons. But a key reason was that I thought that as a …
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  • Five lessons for Aotearoa NZ from the current COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales

    … to the state, stating: “The NSW government cannot control how many doses we get … the NSW government has always said, give … used in several other countries. For example, Indigenous people are being prioritised for vaccination in Canada due to …
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  • Using the CovidCard to enhance protection from COVID-19 at the NZ border

    … guests in quarantine and isolation facilities. We discuss how this is a promising move that should facilitate further … in the ongoing battle against COVID-19. Recent reporting of low levels of COVID-19 testing of border facing staff in … MIQ protocols to ensure the number of touch points between people in these facilities are further reduced. Such data …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … Authority (EPA) chose not to accept the assessment of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) … and 4 = probably not carcinogenic). The criteria for each grade are highly specified; the selection of experts is … by Monsanto? If so, were the figures verified by EPA and how? The questions that arise from the work on glyphosate are …
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  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … the evidence support assertions that the population of people who still smoke are more 'hardened' (i.e., more … and older more addicted people may be more likely to die. Furthermore, policies’ on-going effects will likely increase motivation to quit. Many recent studies have questioned the logic and evidence …
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Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)