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  • Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?

    … the results and put the findings in a wider context of how New Zealand might reach its Smokefree 2025 goal.   … health’ research stream have estimated the health effects of access to features of the built environment, including … more politically acceptable than further tax increases.  What next for the tobacco endgame in New Zealand? There has …
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  • Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?

    … no details are available, it is pertinent to ask – what is HTV, how could it be adapted for New Zealand, and will it work? The launch of Healthy Together Victoria: Victorian Minister for Health, … In schools for example, the new on-the-ground workforce does not implement programs with children or create …
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  • Reducing waiting times for cataract surgery is good value-for-money for falls prevention

    … help to prevent falls. A key risk factor is the presence of cataracts, and cataract surgery has been shown in a … that sooner is better when it comes to cataract surgery. What our new study found Our study used a Markov … would need to be managed appropriately so that it does not impinge on public hospital capacity as often the …
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  • Alcohol and suicide: The facts

    … international evidence.   There is a well-established body of research from New Zealand and overseas that clearly links … with mental health issues” , which is the opposite of what evidence indicates.  Alcohol increases suicide risk The … evidence-based suicide prevention messages and actions.    What this Briefing adds There is growing evidence of a causal …
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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 … similar arguments to introduce or defend an SFG policy. In what the local newspaper described as a “ win for health and … issue is the component part of the programme [sic] - how does it ultimately get enforced? A 36-year-old can smoke, but …
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  • Media release: Poverty and disadvantage fuel NZ’s rising rates of dementia

    … is a factor fuelling Aotearoa New Zealand’s soaring rates of dementia.  In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, researchers reveal the risk of developing dementia is 60% higher for people living in the most deprived areas of NZ compared to those in the least deprived areas. Dr …
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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 … intervention costs were extracted from a NZ trial [ 4 ]. What this new study found In our just published study [5] of … HSAM is restricted to the home environment (though HSAM does prevent injuries in younger people as well – as per this …
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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 … in the number of outlets selling tobacco (8,9)). So does expansion of the more incremental strategies such as …
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  • Unaffordable home heating increases risk of severe mental distress

    … Summary The cost-of-living crisis is placing more people at risk of being … it can have a negative impact on mental health as well. What does the latest research say? A new study from the UK 6 finds …
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  • In May 2022 the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 expires: what then?

    … might by 2022 be back to pre-Covid ‘normal’. Progress has of course been made, including vaccine availability. But now … know. A new Covid Act? We need to be starting to think now what a new time-limited Covid Act should look like, given the … select committee, and the usual holiday period. And if so, what should a new Covid Act look like? In theory, the present …
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