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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: counterarguments to industry claims

    … of outlets selling tobacco is likely to improve population health and decrease health inequities by reducing smoking … if they were no longer able to sell tobacco. The NZ Association of Convenience Stores (NZACS) has previously … group that represents Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco (BAT), among numerous other major …
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  • Will the Government’s new Smokefree Plan achieve Aotearoa’s smokefree goal?

    … messaging and campaigns to prevent uptake; providing health promotion resources to communities; increasing retail … support (e.g. through brief interventions in primary health services) and supporting people to stay ‘smokefree’ … released the in the same week that sweeping cuts to public health staff were announced . In the absence of appropriate …
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  • Calculating cardiovascular risk with online calculators – scope for improvement?

    … ways to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) – with public health measures being particularly critical. These include … (2)). But individual measures are also important – with health workers providing targeted advice on lifestyle change … For those at high risk, the calculator provides information about seeing a doctor about CVD medications. The …
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  • The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality

    … This is important, highlighting room to improve in our health sector. This blog we canvass how bad (or good) the … has been previously reported by the Ministry of Health , ourselves and others (see North and South Graphic of … And this improving survival is a global pattern. The health system is getting better at detecting cancer early, …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … need to know how much of ethnic inequalities in health are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco smoking, … by as much. “How much of ethnic inequalities in health are due to socioeconomic position?” And “How much are … even more generally questions of “what mediates the causal association of exposure X with outcome Y?” – that a massive …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … from Monsanto; and 5) the EPA ignored the Ministry of Health which notified the Authority it could not support the … reports that are available in the public realm. Was the information on exposure and doses provided by Monsanto? If … benefit” thinking to the front end of risk assessment and management. The glyphosate muddle needs to be sorted because …
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  • From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for COVID-19

    … owes a debt of gratitude to its pandemic modellers, public health officials and politicians – we have avoided the … of the speeding epidemic car, as well as dealing with the health services avalanche. We have three choices. First, we … Unemployment and precarious housing leads to worse health and premature deaths too – possibly more than a …
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  • Strengthening Omicron mitigation strategies in Early Childhood Education settings

    … preschool children from two years of age, the World Health Organization currently does not recommend masking … ventilation While the Ministry of Education is providing information to ECEs about how to measure and improve … in outdoor settings has a multitude of benefits for health and development, and should be encouraged as much as …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: important findings from the 2023-24 New Zealand Health Survey

    … Summary New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2023/2024 were released on 19 … on smoking prevalence from the 2023/24 New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS). The NZHS is an annual nationally … presented in this article are available on the Ministry of Health website ) .  Overall smoking prevalence trends Daily …
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  • Media release: Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable

    … global efforts to improve road safety according to public health experts. The increase in speed limits in New Zealand’s … and others in  the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . The Government  has based the … Otago says  this approach fails to consider wider public health impacts, such as discouraging people from walking and …
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