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

    … 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 … campaign “Drive Smokefree for Tamariki” was launched ahead of a law change that will occur later in the year. The …
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  • Home modification to reduce falls – appears cost-effective in NZ

    … possible implementation options and the desirability of also considering group exercise programmes, which have … knowledge gaps – including about the cost-effectiveness of home safety assessment and modification (HSAM). HSAM involves a personalised assessment of injury hazards in the home (generally by an occupational …
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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 focusing public attention …
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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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  • Will the Government’s new Smokefree Plan achieve Aotearoa’s smokefree goal?

    … Aotearoa’s   action on tobacco control had involved a mix of mostly demand-reduction focused population level … population interventions to address the nature and supply of tobacco products. This change was seen as vital to bring a … trade. The second action area aims to increase the number of people who stop smoking, with proposed actions including: …
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  • Media release: Protecting our drinking water sources – Where do the parties stand?

    … A lack of cohesive, comprehensive vision for the country's land use, … water sources and waterways at risk according to results of a survey by the Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC). … sources and drinking water quality - analyses the results of the PHCC survey of the five parties currently in …
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  • Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?

    … 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 … to put into an election platform and, in health, the failure to address obesity is a biggie. Two out of three …
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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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