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  • Tobacco Excise Taxes and the Smokefree 2025 Goal: Some Ways Forward

    … and smoking prevalence, and could bring profound health benefits, 6 it is also important to consider the … may have. Thus, while tobacco taxes may potentially reduce health inequalities, 7-10 as the people most likely to quit … and should be funded as part of a comprehensive public health strategy, particularly given evidence progress towards …
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  • Covid-19: A planetary disease

    … expect continued pandemics, with their consequences for health system overload, human suffering, and economic … appealed in an open letter 4 to the World Health Organization to work for bans and/or regulations of … interests both large and small. What about international health law? The International Health Regulations 2005 (IHRs) …
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  • Perspective: Options for licensed retailing of nicotine-containing E-Cigarettes in NZ

    … The NZ Ministry of Health is currently consulting on options around making … to regulate addictive substances and reduce harm to public health. The Ministry of Health is inviting comment on a proposal to allow …
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  • Queenstown outbreak highlights future challenges for clean drinking water

    … Safe, good quality drinking water is crucial to public health. The Queenstown cryptosporidiosis outbreak highlights … 42 hospitalisations, three people developing long-term health conditions, and four deaths. 2 Since then there has … vegetation is certainly a strategy used effectively in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. While current landuse may …
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  • Local alcohol policies: What’s the opportunity to reduce harm?

    … contributes to very high levels of harm and perpetuates health inequities in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). This Briefing … o Waitangi responsibilities.   Alcohol availability and health in Aotearoa New Zealand Alcohol causes significant … responsibilities under Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The public health impact of new LAP settings should be evaluated to …
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  • Media release: Why the Smokefree legislation must stay - Laying out the evidence:

    … Public Health experts have laid out the facts showing the … continues to cost thousands of lives and millions of health care dollars. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, The Smokefree legislation is …
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  • Improving NZ Government communication about COVID-19: Five suggestions

    … by the Prime Minister and the Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield), extensive social media … months (see below for details); Political manoeuvring at a health select committee to avoid questions about the COVID-19 … Cabinets” or similar bodies during World War Two in NZ, Australia and the UK. 13 2. Talk about systems – not about …
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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … have contributed to some of the favourable features of the health sector response to this 2009 pandemic ( reviewed here … compared to previous ones. Part of the NZ Ministry of Health’s current planning includes stockpiling of antivirals. … viruses (and for treating them), particularly for health care workers and other vulnerable groups. As much as …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques

    … goal envisages a society where people no longer suffer the health, social, economic and cultural harms caused by tobacco … best’ to develop policies that ensure optimal population health outcomes while minimising potential unintended … (which is still substance addiction, even though the health effects are less serious than for tobacco) instead of …
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  • Media release: Urgent action needed: Aotearoa must accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer

    … disease. In the  latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre , Cancer Society of New Zealand  … Director Dr Kate Gregory and co-authors say we lag behind Australia and need a fully funded, equitable cervical cancer … screening, and treatment. NZ has signed up to the World Health Organization’s cervical cancer elimination initiative …
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