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  • Media release: Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Do we want them in NZ?

    … and nicotine products in Aotearoa NZ. However public health researchers warn that the tobacco industry is … the products, their marketing and their risks to health in the  latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre. Dr Jude Ball says companies …
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  • Media release: Experts urge NZ-Australia pandemic pact for future preparedness

    … Public health experts believe a NZ-Australia pandemic cooperation … future pandemics. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, Professor Nick Wilson from the … maximise the two countries’ capacity to best protect the health and wellbeing of their populations facing increasing …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2, to zero by a series of public-health interventions and rapid responses to any outbreak. … for three weeks or more 6 . The app was developed by a health-science company and the data are being analysed in … representing neurology, stroke, psychiatry, and intensive care 17 . Physicians were encouraged to report both catch-up …
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  • Science-informed policy: considerations in support of judicious, circumspect changes to Aotearoa/NZ alert levels during the COVID-19 pandemic

    … economy than with human individual, whanau, and population health. Infectivity It has been clear from the earliest days … increasing severity of disease to a need for critical care and, finally, death. The asymptomatic and mildly … counsel, than to follow those with only modest public-health knowledge and even less understanding of infectious …
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  • Targeting a new generation – time for a greater focus on smoking uptake prevention?

    … 2 3 Furthermore, smokers are greatly impacted by the health harms caused by smoking, as well as by social and … smoking uptake is a priority from a societal and public health perspective, and is necessary to achieve and sustain a … young adults are not available from the New Zealand Health Survey, but in the 2013 census, smoking prevalence …
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  • Bioethicists, scientists and politicians; decision-making in a pandemic

    … from the Prime Minister and the Director General of Health and mapped the extent to which the approach they took … went up significantly. 6 Clearly the government and health officials managed to nurture kotahitanga during this … criticise those responsible for decisions on Intensive Care Unit Bed/Ventilator allocation, Personal Protective …
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  • Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation

    … transformed tobacco packages from marketing media to health promoting platforms and greatly reduced the appeal of … more effectively with people who smoke. Introduce health promoting inserts Participants found on-pack warnings … could succeed in becoming smokefree. 9 Canada has used health promoting inserts for many years, Australia is …
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  • Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed

    … rising youth vaping . Manat ū Hauora, the Ministry of Health, accepts vaping offers a reduced harm alternative to … year olds vape daily (22% among Māori) and the latest NZ Health survey found 15% of young people aged 15 to 17 vape … A recent analysis of NZHS survey data by the Ministry of Health reported similar findings for 15-17 year olds; …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: Important findings from 2023-24 NZ Health Survey

    … Summary New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2023/2024 have been released. … great concern among parents, communities and schools, and health workers. Successive governments have proposed measures … updates on vaping prevalence from the 2023/24 New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS). An accompanying Briefing provides …
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  • ACC turns 50: A more modern approach to injury prevention needed

    … Stronger collaboration with researchers, public health agencies, and government could enhance ACC’s role in … for prevention? How can ACC play a stronger public health role? Need to update injury prevention model to … ACC is not playing as strong a role as it could in public health promotion, it’s not heeding up-to-date best practice, …
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