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  • Expanding the Definition of Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Mindset Change to Help Achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … drunk drivers (used in NZ), relatively lower tax rates on low-alcohol beverages (including NZ), and requiring … health benefits. In Aotearoa NZ, recent data reporting on smoking and vaping show rapid declines in smoking, 5 a … access to vaping products could reduce harms to health. 7 On the other hand, the marked increase in vaping amongst …
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  • The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not

    … both coalition agreements declare decisions will be “based on data and evidence”. Yet, one of the coalition government’s … which include their intention to make “ decisions …based on data and evidence ”. Yet one of their initial actions … demonstrate the coalition’s commitment to basing policy on evidence, this plan suggests they have eschewed robust, …
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  • Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis

    … the child obesity crisis.   According to a 2017 OCED Report New Zealand is still the third fattest high income … best practice: The Food-EPI has been developed based on a review of evidence and international policy documents … implementation. A 100 page comprehensive evidence document on the current extent of implementation of 47 good practice …
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  • Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed

    … account for a substantial proportion of young people who report vaping daily (explained further in the Appendix below … who both vape and smoke daily (i.e. dual users) based on ASH Year 10 data from 2019 , 2021 , 2022 and 2023 .   This … on a cigarette once) declined from over 60% in 2021 to under 50% in 2023, but remains high. A recent analysis of …
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  • Note to the Havelock North Inquiry – Think Big

    … Inquiry must not miss the opportunity to think up-stream, on the scale of water catchments, agricultural economies and … new threats to NZ’s drinking water” is the headline on the cover of a recent New Zealand Listener. It refers to … is on the rise. According to the most recent 5 year report from the Hawkes Bay Regional Council, a third of fresh …
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  • Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking

    … and a collaborative environment, strengths we can build on. Consider the health data.  All mortality and … funded community pharmacy dispensings, lab tests, and so on, can be linked anonymously through the National Health … insights can bring with protecting privacy and security. Under their privacy and security requirements, all data has …
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  • A new online calculator for estimating how much a society might spend on life-saving interventions

    … the maximum investment society might consider spending on life-saving health interventions, while remaining … proportion of their gross domestic product (GDP) on health, e.g., at least 10% in countries like as NZ. … investment in life-saving health interventions, under various assumptions. Despite the various limitations …
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  • Australia’s Quarantine Systems Failures: Lessons for NZ

    … countries pursuing COVID-19 elimination have also focussed on this period. For example, Hong Kong recently extended the … to 21 days. 12 Testing of people after leaving quarantine on day 16 is now common in Australia (eg, 13 ) and should be … requirement for all border workers, instead of the self-report systems currently used in NZ (which are susceptible to …
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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: how could this be achieved and what evidence supports the NZ Government’s proposals?

    … to reduce tobacco availability, and review the evidence on which these arguments draw.   Introduction Easier access … – pharmacists are not likely to sell tobacco to people under 18 years. Further, pharmacies have sound security … involved, 259 outlets in total) [12] 41,700   (33,500 to 51,600)   $741   ($531 to $1010) Most of the health …
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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … things as we show in a publication last week in the NZ Medical Journal. But care cordiantors will change how … For care coordinators we used good quality evidence on incidence, survival and coverage and time to treatment … we had to collate sparse and low quality research evidence on exactly how many more people would receive chemotherapy …
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