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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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  • Social Marketing for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Reminding, Reinforcing, and Changing Social Norms

    … policy measures. Third, in line with the Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion, social marketing may help build … by unhealthy products. (For a more detailed background on social marketing – please see the Appendix.) However, … to the US Real Cost advertisements were less likely to report having smoked relative to young people who had lower …
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  • What does the novel coronavirus epidemic mean for New Zealand?

    … Sunday Star Times opinion piece (26/1/2020) by this author on the current coronavirus situation. It also explores what … in 2005 were adopted by all 193 member states of WHO. Under the IHR all WHO members are required to rapidly report potential emerging health threats such as this novel …
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  • Smokefree Aotearoa – world-leading developments with profound public health implications

    … of deaths among Māori. 2  Smoking also impacts negatively on the economic, social and cultural wellbeing of Māori , 3 … and Pacific peoples. The Māori Affairs Select Committee report recommended the Government develop a strategy for … and community mobilisation aligned with Māori rights under Te Tiriti Increase Māori workforce in stop smoking …
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  • Modelling tobacco tax – implications of BODE3 paper just out, and personal reflections on the research journey

    … and why I think this paper is important. I also reflect on my 8 year journey from laying the foundations for this … all our necessary assumptions. We suspect we can improve on some in the future, the most important one being what … the consumer to price) at very high prices. We are working on this at the moment – research is an incremental process. …
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  • Thoughts on NZ Adopting an Aussie Community Health Programme … and Forthcoming Nutrition Policy Events

    … so far. In lieu of Boyd Swinburn’s forthcoming analysis on Public Health Expert, we will simply make three remarks in … a government and the state from its responsibilities (e.g. on welfare benefits), deflecting the blame and responsibility … to accompany a letter appearing shortly in the New Zealand Medical Journal (probably 14 February). A post-symposium …
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  • Smokefree Laws: Reducing tobacco outlets will decrease crime

    … ram raids targeting tobacco products, a claim based on anecdote. In this Briefing, we examine police data on ram raids, which suggests these crimes are decreasing and … crime and ram raids Police data also include a scanning report on 283 ram raids that occurred between November 2020 …
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  • Food poverty for NZ teens creating an achievement lag of up to four years

    … first time, PISA 2022 student wellbeing data included data on how many teenagers went hungry due to a lack of money for food, allowing us to examine the impact this has on their school achievement. Of the 25 OECD countries who … and promote social cohesion. Or as the International PISA report concludes, “Not least, how we treat the most …
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  • Taxing tobacco in NZ: What we know and what could be next

    … are consistent with the extensive international literature on the effectiveness of tobacco tax as a tobacco control … brand relative to a 8.3% price in a premium brand (based on a NZ survey of 448 retailers (4)). Such pricing strategies … growth in such trade seems unlikely to have much impact on the success of higher tobacco taxes according to a …
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  • Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?

    … of Health is currently reviewing public submissions on options that would allow nicotine-containing e-cigarettes … increase quit rates (though scientific evidence on this point remains unclear) or move nicotine-users to … could encourage smokers to switch to vaping (ideally on a long-term pathway to become nicotine-free) by making …
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