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Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations
… passed legislation that extends existing regulation of tobacco and herbal smoking products to vaping products (or … how these are marketed. In this blog, we summarise some of the Act’s key provisions before exploring how the … 3A (d) includes among the Act’s overall purposes a goal of supporting smokers and encouraging switching from smoking …
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Health system costs in NZ: variation by sex, age & proximity to death
… Such work is only possible due to extraordinary richness of routine NZ data. We highlight four findings. First, costs … is much less variability by age for costs in the last year of life – indeed, the ‘costs of dying’ peak at about 60 years … ages in the future as mortality rates fall. We examined what impact this would have on future projections (Table 1). …
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How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand
… speaking there are two benefits to vaccination; protection of the individual and protection of the community (by reducing the risk of transmission and of reducing the risk of outbreaks that …
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Increasing whooping cough cases put pēpi at risk. What can be done about it?
… We recommend two key priority areas to reduce the impact of severe pertussis in our communities. Firstly, ensure … is underway, but needs to continue to be prioritised. 15 What this briefing adds Incidence of pertussis infection is … … Increasing whooping cough cases put pēpi at risk. What can be done about it? …
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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 … and messages (9), the format of the Quitline information does not seem to have been examined as it lacks strong visual …
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Health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 response: NZ compared to OECD countries
… and -6.3% for the OECD. Nevertheless, a fuller accounting of health, economic and equity impacts probably needs to wait … population is protected by vaccination. As with a number of other jurisdictions in the East Asia and Pacific region, … 1 2 In this blog we aim to provide an updated description of the health and economic impacts of the NZ approach to …
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Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?
… main findings. Walking and cycling for transport, instead of using cars, is a sustainable (lower carbon emissions), … (or not so well) at increasing walking and cycling and what they are doing to achieve this. We know from visiting or … and walking, as well as from scientific research, that what happens at a local level (as well as national) is …
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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) … shares proportional to their population. 5 However, what co-governance does represent is an acknowledgement of the Crown’s …
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Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?
… The NZ Ministry of Health is currently reviewing public submissions on … consultation raises questions about how the wider uptake of e-cigarette use (known as “vaping”) will be managed. In … of cigarette smoke (though some argue that this confusion does not occur for most people). We are familiar with the …
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Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive
… a book later this year ( The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in New Zealand ; AUP) that looks in depth … rates will rise again as the obesity epidemic takes hold; what is more likely is that the obesity epidemic will slow … younger people (hence causing more years of life lost, as does suicide), and there have been dramatic falls since the …
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