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  • Modelling tobacco tax – implications of BODE3 paper just out, and personal reflections on the research journey

    … policy. New Zealand is one of a handful of countries with a goal of being tobacco-free. Policy-makers need the … This number is difficult to fathom in isolation. So here are two other ways of thinking of it. First, it is roughly … on some in the future, the most important one being what happens to tobacco price elasticities (sensitivity of …
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  • NZ’s long-running Campylobacter epidemic from poultry: Now with antibiotic resistance

    … NZ has a long-running Campylobacter infection epidemic with contaminated fresh poultry the major source. Added to … produced poultry. In this blog we briefly detail these problems and explore potential solutions: (i) build on the … a great opportunity for preventing these cases (there are multiple sources for the other 50% of cases so these are …
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  • Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?

    … more background and explains that “ no restrictions are proposed on where e-cigarettes can be sold so this would … proposal would mean that nicotine-containing e-cigarettes are as easy to access as combustible tobacco, thus enabling … users (2). This situation is clearly not compatible with the Government’s stated aim that NZ become an …
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  • Media release: Severe domestic squalor in Aotearoa New Zealand: A preliminary survey

    … People are living in severe domestic squalor throughout Aotearoa NZ … and city councils which show nearly all were involved with clients living in severe domestic squalor. Dr Jonathan … would say that the house was not fit for human occupation. Common features for people living in these conditions include …
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  • Vaping needs much tighter regulation as we approach Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Two new studies

    … is a major health problem in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), with an estimated 4790 attributable deaths in 2019 (95% … product legislation [6] [7], we argue the regulations are inadequate, given the findings of two new studies … – but of lesser magnitude than previous work [11]. What might these findings mean for advancing smoking and …
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  • Three Waters reforms are needed to protect public health and ensure changes are economically sustainable and efficient

    … outbreak made much of an entire town sick (~8,000 people), with 58 hospitalisations and four deaths. 1,2 The outbreak … subsequent reforms colloquially called “Three Waters” that are responsible for reforming the waste, storm and drinking … shares proportional to their population. 5 However, what co-governance does represent is an acknowledgement of …
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  • Stubbing out democracy: no Government mandate for smokefree repeal

    … in the recent election campaign and is inconsistent with previous National Party policy positions. The decision … organisations and health and smokefree policy experts are being ignored, in contrast to those of retailers who … evidence suggests none of their arguments hold water? And what of other stakeholders? To date, the government has …
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  • NZ’s smart use of big data: Employment & income impacts of selected health conditions

    … salaried employment at the time they were first diagnosed with the condition, and then survived for at least four years … the condition with those of matched comparison groups. What did the study find? Perhaps not surprisingly, the study … well as the use of the integrated administrative data, we are also impressed with some of the methods used e.g., …
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  • Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations

    … managing access to ENDS and HTPs, and regulating how these are marketed.  In this blog, we summarise some of the Act’s … principals have expressed concerns that young people are experimenting with ENDS, 1 2 attracted by the novel flavours, 3-5 …
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  • Lessons from Canada for NZ: Carbon, Cycling, Tobacco, Nutrition and Cannabis

    … gas emissions can be popular with the public if revenues are given back to citizens [1]. This year Canada is proposing … Trading Scheme [ETS]. NZ’s ETS has numerous design problems that include its strange hybrid structure and … Government (and local governments in NZ) need to determine what are their own health and social priorities. Local …
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