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  • Optimising the effects of plain packaging for tobacco – making Quitline information more salient

    … Given plain packaging of tobacco products will likely increase the tension many … to try and quit, could increase the number and success of quit attempts. This blog post details a just published … packaging regulations improve the current presentation of Quitline information and provide smokers with support to …
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  • Lessons From history: Helping New Zealand prepare for future influenza pandemics

    … in the last 100 years that have reached New Zealand. Of these, the 1918 one was by far the most severe – in fact … history with over 8500 deaths (almost one percent of the population at the time). The most recent influenza … pandemics could even pose existential risks to the future of human civilisation (pandemics are included in this list of …
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  • What does the novel coronavirus epidemic mean for New Zealand?

    … threat to global health where collaboration and sharing of information benefits all nations. Here I briefly summarise … coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that emerged in Wuhan at the end of 2019 we are learning more about its pandemic potential … with every passing day. The most important measure of severity is the fatality risk. Currently this is about 4% …
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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … It is now time to reduce the number and density of retail outlets selling tobacco.  Retail supply restrictions are both a logical component of policies that will achieve a tobacco-free New Zealand by 2025, and what the majority of consumers want. Marketing is predicated on largely …
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  • Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?

    … journal Tobacco Control , we examined the potential role of increasing tobacco tax for achieving an end to the tobacco … is to be achieved by 2025. In this blog we discuss some of the modelling results and also the other policy options … evidence is that increasing tobacco tax is one of the most important single tobacco control measures. Its …
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  • Three Waters reforms are needed to protect public health and ensure changes are economically sustainable and efficient

    … discussion on the critical need to reform the management of drinking water resources which is currently: 1) … water-related campylobacteriosis outbreak made much of an entire town sick (~8,000 people), with 58 … and four deaths. 1,2 The outbreak was an outcome of systemic flaws in Aotearoa New Zealand’s (A-NZ) regulatory …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey

    … high among Māori and people experiencing higher levels of deprivation. The findings support implementing the key … repealing.    Smoking is the single greatest cause of preventable disease and death in Aotearoa New Zealand.  … in the lowest quintile. Implications for public health practice and policy Without the measures outlined in the …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, everybody now knows that: Warnings … Psychological research has shown that these kinds of rare but devastating events are exactly the ones humans … quo, lack of imagination, ignorance, adherence to ‘best-practice’ and corruption by vested interest. There must be a …
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  • Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones

    … scenarios include higher storm severity (as per aspects of some previous cyclones), worse timing, hitting Auckland … poorer response by the public and authorities. This type of downward counterfactual analysis should be conducted for … other disasters to better inform a wider range and depth of future disaster mitigation efforts. In February 2023, …
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  • Ready or not? Pandemic preparedness index and implications for NZ

    … how the world remains vulnerable to the persisting risk of pandemics. The Global Health Security (GHS) Index is one … as deliberate biological attacks or accidental release of agents used in biodefence research.   The world may have … Joint External Evaluation. Implications for public health practice and policy The NZ Government can have some …
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