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  • Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further

    … mortality rates, over time, for Māori, Pacific peoples and the European/Other ethnic group, there are still striking … access to health services, tobacco control and addressing the obesogenic environment. Recently, especially in the United States, there has been a growing concern that …
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  • Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options?

    … vaping as a replacement for tobacco smoking, will improve the health of the NZ population. The estimated health gain is about the same as 10% per annum …
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  • Vaccination is often cost-effective but not (currently) HPV vaccination for boys in NZ

    … study we have done and blogged on . But given that the Australian Government is now providing fully subsidised … school boys, we thought it useful to study this issue in the NZ setting. Our model involved simulating an annual cohort of 12-year-old girls and boys in 2011 in the context of either female-only or both-sex HPV …
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  • Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?

    … Summary  The government appears poised to allow the sale of oral tobacco and nicotine products in Aotearoa … tobacco, snus, and nicotine pouches. In recent years, the tobacco industry has invested heavily in marketing …
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  • Charting our way back to normal

    … tool, COVID-19 Pandemic Trade-offs, allows people to weigh the costs and benefits of different policy responses as … video. Article reproduced with permission from Pursuit  The burning COVID-19 question this year is – “When can we get … more pessimistically, “Will we ever get back to normal?” The honest answer is we do not know, and only time will tell. …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … business-as-usual trends in smoking prevalence, and the potential roles of interventions such as higher regular tobacco tax increases in achieving the NZ Government’s Smokefree Nation 2025 Goal. As best we … increases in tobacco tax alone will not be able to achieve the 2025 Goal. In this blog post we outline our favoured …
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  • Strong public support for healthy food policies in Aotearoa

    … New Zealanders support government intervention to reduce the cost of healthy food. Additionally, 73% back free healthy … school lunches, and 64% endorse a sugary drinks tax if the revenue supports affordable and available healthy food. The study underscores the public’s expectation of political …
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  • NZ should prepare for a potentially severe global coronavirus pandemic

    … In this blog we briefly summarise our assessment of the highly uncertain new coronavirus threat. Given its … in managing this major health and economic threat. Now is the time for maximum proactivity. There is much we still don’t know about the threat posed by this new coronavirus. It appears to be …
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  • Living longer, living healthier? Latest Official Report on independent life expectancy in NZ

    … In this blog we review the latest update by the Ministry of Health on how much of NZers life expectancy can be expected to be in good health. The good news? We are both living longer, and living longer …
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  • Ireland leads New Zealand in the battle against obesity

    … email to myself and other Kiwis during that time outlining the strong actions that the Irish Government is planning on obesity and food – a far cry from the state of play in New Zealand. Which has led to this blog, …
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