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  • How the tobacco industry targets young people to achieve a new generation of smokers

    … tobacco; we discuss their efforts to infiltrate public health agendas while continuing to innovate with smoked … trajectories change dramatically.[6] Most of those whose health and longevity will be harmed by smoking begin using … and marketing imagery designed to override public health messages. The strategic importance of young people to …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a new Action Plan to achieve our smokefree goal

    … widespread media coverage and support from the medical and health community and organisations; for example the Asthma … 2017 . In an address at the launch, Associate Minister of Health Nicky Wagner promised to consider the recommendations. … of tobacco tax increases and predicts greater health gain for Māori compared to non-Māori (3,4). We propose …
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  • E-bikes are the new cars- why don’t transport policy makers treat them seriously?

    … in this blog we outline what we know about the carbon and health impacts of e-bikes. Then we look at policy in this … system. Image supplied by author Are e-bikes good for your health? The evidence we have suggests, on balance, yes. A … much about the association between e-biking and specific health outcomes (e.g. all-cause mortality, cardiovascular …
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  • Using a fun “Mask Day” at school to promote pandemic protection in the NZ community

    … lack of support by the NZ Government and the World Health Organization. Our successful elimination of SARS-CoV-2 … mask. Schools as powerful places to spread positive public health messages  Mass masking is a new norm in many non-Asian … contribution to make in normalising mask use. Effective health communication is a key factor in fighting the COVID-19 …
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  • Media release: Long Covid could be costing NZ $2 billion a year in lost productivity: Experts urge preventive action

    … from reduced worker productivity, and that’s excluding health costs. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre –  Long Covid: High economic … of Long Covid on productivity.  University of Auckland health economist Professor Paula Lorgelly highlights …
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  • The urgent need for a Covid-19 Action Plan for Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … and adults , with concerning implications for their health now and in the future. Children with persisting … positive environments that we would wish them to be. Great care needs to be taken not to over-generalise the many … are seeing internationally. To minimise this risk and its health consequences in NZ, we need to use all of the …
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  • Youth vaping addiction: How it happens and why it matters

    … harm. The Government should assist schools to take a health approach to youth vaping, and fund youth-specific … date, debate has generally focused on potential physical health benefits and risks of vaping. But nicotine addiction … options. Treat addiction in children and adolescents as a health issue, rather than ‘bad behaviour’. Once addiction is …
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  • Young New Zealanders want a tobacco-free future - new research

    … the smokefree laws. We call on the Prime Minister and Health Minister to listen to the New Zealand people and … want a smokefree future.  Implications for public health practice and policy Aotearoa’s world-leading Smokefree … Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington  Prof Janet Hoek …
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  • Note to the Havelock North Inquiry – Think Big

    … the Inquiry must not miss the opportunity to think up-stream, on the scale of water catchments, agricultural … not just for reasons of taste, but also, possibly, for health reasons (such as risks associated with chlorinated … also tackle threats to our water supply. This requires up-stream thinking, on the scale of water catchments, …
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  • Is Keytruda for advanced melanoma cost-effective? Applying the BODE3 rapid cost effectiveness calculator

    … 3 Programme, we have harnessed the high quality linked health data in NZ to create some online calculators. One … (i.e. non-diseased) mortality and morbidity, and health system costs, ‘behind the scenes’, but requires us to … the pembrolizumab versus dacarbazine or best supportive care comparator). Second, PHARMAC is incredibly good at hard …
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