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  • Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact

    … NZ Government announced it would continue it’s programme of yearly 10% tobacco tax increases for the years 2017 to … model, we project that with these additional four years of tax increases smoking prevalence in 2020 will be 21.4% for … increases until January this year. The further four rounds of tax increases will drive down tobacco smoking prevalence …
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  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … does the evidence support assertions that the population of people who still smoke are more 'hardened' (i.e., more … tobacco products (HTPs), despite advice from the Ministry of Health and Treasury. Instead, it accepted the Associate … assumption does not reflect the dynamic population profile of people who smoke. For example, less heavily addicted …
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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 … that we spend around seven times more in the last year of life than the average spent in all other years of a …
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  • Surviving winter: NZ’s journey through 145 years of seasonal survival – New study

    … was a favourable decline in winter excess deaths from 7.9% of annual deaths in the 1920s, down to 4.5% in the 2010s … efforts to investigate the public health benefits of improving housing standards and reducing seasonal … other seasons. This difference between winter and the rest of the year is measured as an index (EWMI). It compares …
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  • Media release: A new voice to boost New Zealand’s response to major public health challenges

    … Health Communication Centre (PHCC) will boost the impact of research to improve health and equity in Aotearoa New … along with greater environmental sustainability.  Director of the PHCC, well-known University of Otago epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker, says this …
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  • World moving forward on the smokefree generation - Aotearoa NZ goes backwards

    … the R18 law currently in place in NZ, which prohibit sale of tobacco products to anyone aged under 18. Instead, the SFG … a certain age, potentially positioning smoking as a “rite of passage” to adulthood (for more information, see earlier … addictive product that typically kills up to two thirds of its long term users 3 and reframes commercial tobacco as …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Public policy options to address alcohol-related harm in Aotearoa

    … tax, availability and marketing.   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions s eries looking at effective … such as liver damage and cancers. The financial costs of alcohol-related harm are an estimated $7.85 billion each … seven times higher than the annual alcohol tax revenue of around $1.1 billion .   Despite multiple Government …
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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … for “better and faster” services for cancer patients, of which $16 million dollars was for care coordination … all seems sensible, in that the i mmediate and net cost of cancer care coordinators may be negligible – putting in … and health gains?”  And for which cancers and which type of people? Cost-effectiveness analyses are most commonly used …
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  • Comparing health interventions in a meaningful way – Introducing the BODE3 Interactive League Table

    … and policy-makers to get an informed ‘first impression’ of what are the best health interventions to give further … with respect for individual autonomy and the benefits of market forces, but there are also problematic commercial … we are launching an interactive league table and series of blogs. This blog introduces the concept of a league table, …
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  • Media release: Money down the drain - The high cost of leaking water pipes

    … Aotearoa New Zealand could be costing the country upwards of $122 million a year according to public health … from the Public Health Communication Centre , University of Otago researchers calculate the financial value of water lost through leaking pipes. The country’s leaking …
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