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Media release: Treaty Principles Bill poses major risk to public health and equity
… Māori rights and health equity in the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . The … the substance of Treaty principles, the Bill would also remove the existing legal recognition of distinctive Māori … “That is, the primary effect of the Bill would be to remove a legal mechanism that has been used to promote equity …
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News: Fears NZ on track to fall well short of Smokefree 2025 goal
… - Smoking prevalence and trends: Important findings from the 2023-24 New Zealand Health Survey . He also spoke to … Briefing Vaping prevalence and trends: Important findings from 2023-24 NZ Health Survey . The data show vaping …
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NZ Health Survey data released today reinforce Smokefree Legislation is crucial to reduce smoking inequities
… Māori continue to bear a much heavier burden of harm from smoking than non-Māori University of Otago researchers from ASPIRE Aotearoa say the findings reinforce the necessity … data and look at the ramifications in the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . The Health …
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April PHCC Newsletter
… Click here to read about the latest from the PHCC in our April Newsletter. Featuring school … leaks and Long Covid. The newsletter recaps Briefings from the last month as well as highlighting interesting new …
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Covid-19 Hospitalisations Now Peaking in Aotearoa NZ – But Key Covid-19 Control Measures Still Need to be Maintained
… Shore, Middlemore and Auckland) and in the rest of NZ from 1 February 2022 to as reported on 20 March 2022 (abstracted from Ministry of Health daily news reports) What Covid-19 … we have recently summarised some of the key lessons from the first two years of the pandemic in an article …
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High regret among people who smoke reinforces strong support for smokefree legislation
… policy. In this briefing, we draw together findings from different surveys undertaken to estimate public support … large majorities want a smokefree future and protection from an industry that has targeted them unscrupulously. … high among young people, who stand to gain (or lose) most from the measures it contains, and who want policies that …
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Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes
… around 5000 New Zealanders continue to die every year from smoking and a persistence of associated health … of dependence among adolescents. 3 Extensive data from trials with people who smoke provided with VLNCs shows … on Drug Ause, the National Cancer Institute and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tobacco Product Scientific …
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Unaffordable home heating increases risk of severe mental distress
… as well. What does the latest research say? A new study from the UK 6 finds a clear link between transitioning into a … distress. The researchers, Amy Clair and Emma Baker from the University of Adelaide, used data from the UK Household Longitudinal survey to track mental …
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Smokefree outdoor areas: A missing part of Government’s new Smokefree 2025 proposals
… areas. Legally required smokefree outdoor areas are far from ‘business-as-usual’ for NZ. While many local authorities … to help smokers trying to quit, in providing protection from tobacco smoke pollution to workers and others in public … and in providing protection for those inside buildings from tobacco smoke drifting in from outside (a problem in …
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Youth vaping addiction: How it happens and why it matters
… doses of nicotine very rapidly, comparable to the ‘hit’ from cigarette smoking. 1 2 Now an increasing proportion of … are becoming daily users – by 2022, the conversion rate from experimental to daily vaping was one in four (see … 15% of 15-17 year olds in Aotearoa vaped every day, up from 2% in 2019/20 - much higher than in comparable countries …
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