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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: important findings from the 2023-24 New Zealand Health Survey

    … Summary New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2023/2024 were released on 19 … November. For the first time in a decade, the prevalence of daily smoking did not decline in Aotearoa, sitting at 6.9% … Pacific peoples, and people experiencing higher levels of deprivation. These findings demonstrate that the …
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  • World moving forward on the smokefree generation - Aotearoa NZ goes backwards

    … an important opportunity to protect future generations' health and wellbeing. In late 2022, the Aotearoa New Zealand … the R18 law currently in place in NZ, which prohibit sale of tobacco products to anyone aged under 18. Instead, the SFG … Wellington  Dr Fiona Sing , Research Fellow, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Population Health, University of …
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  • Study of NZ fruit & vegetable prices suggests markets best value-for-money

    … in PLOS ONE . In this blog post we elaborate on some of the details, including the finding that prices were … lower at markets compared to supermarkets (with a family of four potentially saving up to $49 per week by buying at … of fruits and vegetables – according to the most recent NZ Health Survey (see Figures below). Differential intake of …
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  • Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?

    … will be based on Healthy Together Victoria (HTV) which the Health Minister, Tony Ryall, visited on a recent trip to … be adapted for New Zealand, and will it work? The launch of Healthy Together Victoria: Victorian Minister for Health, … Hon David Davis, Prof Boyd Swinburn, Dr Alan Shiell, CEO of the Centre for Excellence in Innovation and Prevention …
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  • Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?

    … for the ‘individual-responsibility’ explanation and (lack of) solution to the obesity epidemic. She then points to the …   If you stop and ask people on the street, nine out of ten (including the overweight ones) will say that you get … treatments for obesity in children (despite Minister of Health Coleman’s assertions to the contrary), I share …
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  • “Nudging” to improve QR scanning and mask wearing to protect us all during a pandemic

    … A feature of Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID-19 elimination strategy is the rapid identification and then management of any COVID-19 cases arising from border system failures. … during the COVID pandemic? Currently, the Ministry of Health (MOH) recommends that QR Code posters are printed in …
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  • In the news: Public Health Priorities Series

    … Here's a selection of coverage of the Public Health Priorities Series published on The …
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  • Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax

    … Associate Professor Nick Wilson, University of Otago Wellington An article we published last week generated plenty of debate [1] (some thoughtful, some distortionary), and in … in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health , we reviewed the meta-analyses on replacing dietary …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Protecting the healthcare system: a strategic approach to reducing infectious disease impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … education, work, and social settings.   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health … in many ways the pandemic is simply a larger-scale version of the endemic and epidemic infectious diseases that exact a …
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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … declined since its peak in the 1960s, after the serious health risks it poses became clear. Government policies and … will need to address. Social norms govern many aspects of our everyday lives by defining what practices we view as … Similarly, social norms mean smoking with a group of workmates will be a very different experience to smoking …
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