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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … In this blog, we review two key policy interventions included … reduce smoking prevalence : mandated denicotinisation and a reduction in tobacco retailer s. We do not consider the … as its impact will be more long term.   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective …
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  • Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

    … Aotearoa New Zealand. K ā inga Ora – Home and Communities, a Crown agency, has been funded in the Budget to build an extra 3,000 new public homes on top of the 14,050 homes which have already been funded by the … closing the gap created by the sale of around 10,000 state houses by the previous government. Looking forward, …
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  • The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality

    … Kiwis. Today Alafeishat and colleagues have published a paper in the NZ Medical Journal showing that New Zealand has higher … the situation really is, the problems and possible sources of error comparing survival across the ditch (it is not easy …
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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 … on tobacco packaging.  For decades, tobacco companies have used brand imagery to create connotations that lure young … the new packs into quit attempts. 5 Second, by developing a thoughtful evaluation plan, and third, by ensuring frequent …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Simple transport system changes could quickly relieve the crisis in our hospitals

    … This blog looks at solutions in the transport sector: low traffic neighbourhoods, creating … use and speed limit reductions.   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective … treatment of major trauma and injuries (around 14000 a year), hospitalisations for heart conditions (2000 a year …
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  • From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for COVID-19

    … Australia owes a debt of gratitude to its pandemic modellers, public health … cheer too early, the daily case notifications out of the state furthest down the path – NSW – are encouraging. The …
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  • Oral nicotine products: Expanding the nicotine marketplace

    … Summary Faced with declining use of their smoked tobacco products, tobacco companies have … claim these products intend to offer people who smoke a new cessation option.  Marketers aim to integrate brands … piques the interest of young people who have never used these products, thus stimulating market expansion. 19   …
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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … Professor Tony Blakely Dedicated cancer care coordinators – a clinical nurse specialist charged with navigating patients … for “better and faster” services for cancer patients, of which $16 million dollars was for care coordination … of people? Cost-effectiveness analyses are most commonly used for drugs, devices and ‘technologies’.  But the most …
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  • Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory

    … Housing and Health Research Programme at the University of Otago Wellington, we are urging the Electricity Authority … for electricity retailers mandatory to protect health. A new report shows up to 55% of residential consumers are not … devices to keep them alive. 2 More common physical and mental health effects arise when homes are too cold. 3 Other …
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  • Optimising the effects of plain packaging for tobacco – making Quitline information more salient

    … Given plain packaging of tobacco products will likely increase the tension many … and success of quit attempts. This blog post details a just published study  on this topic. It also suggests that … to the lowest recorded level . Irrespective of the measure used – daily smoking, age at which first cigarette smoked, or …
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