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  • Youth vaping addiction: How it happens and why it matters

    … New Zealand is higher than in comparable countries — 15% of 15-17 year olds vape every day. Nicotine causes minimal … responses need to reflect the highly addictive nature of vaping, particularly in young people, and mitigate risks … harm. The Government should assist schools to take a health approach to youth vaping, and fund youth-specific …
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  • Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?

    … cancer incidence and mortality in New Zealand.   The rate of new cases of stomach cancer presenting each year have declined over … 50%+ in Māori men and 71%+ in Pacific men. The World Health Organization recommends all countries consider …
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  • Physical activity or nutrition interventions: which can improve population health the most and save the most health dollars?

    … We gave a presentation to Members of Parliament last week on taxes and subsidies on food, the … interventions compare to physical activity ones – in terms of health gain and potential for cost savings to the health …
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  • Alcohol and suicide: The facts

    … Summary Alcohol use often exacerbates mental health problems and is a well-known risk factor for suicide. … international evidence.   There is a well-established body of research from New Zealand and overseas that clearly links … increased suicide risk. This Briefing provides a summary of key evidence in response to mental health campaigner, Mike …
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  • Lessons from jurisdictions that are battling their own Delta variant outbreaks

    … respects a likely scenario given the high infectiousness of this variant and the emerging evidence that vaccines may … Delta transmission compared with the original strain of the pandemic virus. In this blog we discuss public health responses employed in other jurisdictions in response …
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  • More evidence that elimination is the best COVID-19 control strategy for health and the economy

    … to be superior to mitigation/suppression strategies in health and economic terms. Nevertheless, more data and a … be really certain about the relative benefits and costs of different COVID-19 control strategies. The likely health … reported on by some of us in a blog [1] and in the British Medical Journal [2]. The ability of Australia and NZ to …
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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … In our recently published work, we studied the impact of the NZ Government preventing new retail outlets from … outcome would be a 50% decrease in the total number of tobacco retail outlets by 2032. This blog puts these … in relation to a product range about which the long-term health effects are still largely unknown. Yet the commotion …
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  • Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action

    … risks – which may even be increasing with larger numbers of infected returnees in border facilities. In this final blog of the year we detail the critical actions needed to lower … [6]. Very effective communication also came from other health officials and politicians eg, Dr Ashley Bloomfield and …
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  • How the tobacco industry targets young people to achieve a new generation of smokers

    … focusses on the tobacco industry’s continued targeting of young people, whose addiction to nicotine will help ensure … tobacco; we discuss their efforts to infiltrate public health agendas while continuing to innovate with smoked … nicotine free.   Tobacco companies’ sustained deceit of the general public, particularly people who smoke, is a …
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  • Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

    … this, we need to understand their upstream experiences of housing instability. This Briefing reports the findings and implications of a study focused on LGBTIQ+ people’s experiences of housing … family relationship breakdown, sexual abuse, and poor health. 1,2 LGBTIQ+ people have specific needs around …
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