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  • Social Marketing for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Reminding, Reinforcing, and Changing Social Norms

    … social norms, which also support long-term improvements in health outcomes. In this blog, we consider the role of social marketing in supporting the Smokefree 2025 goal and … compliance with policy changes by fostering understanding of the changes; for example, the current smokefree cars …
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  • Advance Care Planning – good for patient care and better use of health dollars?

    … Dr Ben Gray Advance Care Planning (or ACP) is the process of thinking about, talking about and planning for future health care and end of life care. In its delivery, this seems a very clinically …
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  • Oral nicotine products: Expanding the nicotine marketplace

    … Summary Faced with declining use of their smoked tobacco products, tobacco companies have … ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, and Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington  Dr Jude Ball , ASPIRE … Hardie, ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, and Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland Associate …
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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 … extend the approach taken in NZ. For several years, public health researchers, parents and school principals have …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … plain, packages. In this blog, we discuss the importance of developing an on-going monitoring and evaluation plan … feature new, enlarged pictorial warning labels, but none of the brand livery formerly conveyed on tobacco packaging. … their experiences at the World Conference on Tobacco of Health. All commented that, in retrospect, they would have …
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  • A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’

    … for some smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’. In this blog, we discuss what a new network of university researchers and NGOs are developing to get us on the road to implementation of smart food policies in New Zealand and internationally. If …
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  • Being forced to leave your rental home can harm health

    … who had been evicted. We found that eviction can harm health through causing stress and grief, and precipitating a … situation. We argue that reducing the incidence and impact of evictions is an important public health and social welfare … It also supports mental health through providing a sense of identity, a point for social contact, and protection from …
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  • A pandemic that won’t go away – as Covid enters its 5th year, NZ needs a realistic strategy

    … accordingly. Evolving variants are driving ongoing waves of infection, prolonging the pandemic's impact. It remains a leading cause of hospitalisation and death, particularly in older … and those with underlying illness. But its largest health impact may be Long Covid because it is relatively …
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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 … direction would be a worthy advance to celebrate 50 years of serving Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). The Accident … in these activities.  For five decades, ACC has provided medical treatment, rehabilitation and income-related …
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  • Food taxes and subsidies will probably protect health & reduce inequalities – but the devil is in the detail

    … in the last few weeks on food taxes and subsidies – both of which depend on what are called price elasticities.  Timely, in light of the launch last week of Appetite for Destruction that is … among socially disadvantaged groups with worse diets and health to start with. But the proof is in the pudding, which …
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