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

    … legally mandated restrictions on tobacco retail outlets. In this blog, we briefly consider the results and put the findings in a wider context of how New Zealand might reach its Smokefree 2025 goal.   There … stream have estimated the health effects of access to features of the built environment, including access to: …
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  • Adaptation important but don’t give up on mitigation—what the new IPCC report means for Aotearoa

    … weather events are more common and more severe than in the past, and that human activities are undoubtedly … fuelling climate change. Without stronger action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global heating will … impacts as well as policy pathways for both adapting to, and mitigating the current and future impacts of climate …
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  • “100% Pure” – Public Health Goal Setting

    … Herald piece). Nevertheless, there is a case for striving to achieve the “100% level” with certain threats to public … polio vaccination (the last polio case from wild virus in NZ was 51 years ago). It is one of the few countries to … – which, let’s not forget, is probably the biggest long-term issue for public health. Possible candidates are …
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  • Front-of-pack nutrition labels improve understanding but don’t improve healthy food choices; Starlight Trial just published

    … on New Zealand consumer healthy food choices, according to a randomised trial just published from our HRC-funded DIET … contrary findings are why randomised trials are important. In this blog we discuss our findings, strengths and … study results. Our study did not, and could not, assess how the food industry reformulates food in response to …
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  • A major new study on Kiwi health – can it inform decision-making?

    … stocktake for New Zealand. The study highlights changes in New Zealand, e.g. diet is emerging as the major modifiable risk factor with respect to disease burden.  It also raises questions as to how useful a burden of disease study is for prioritisation of …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … supported by health researchers, we know little about how young people – those targeted by the SFG policy – … an SFG disallows the sale of smoked tobacco products to anyone born on or after a specified date, which is … once addicted, and the severe health consequences of life-long smoking, seriously undermine prohibition arguments. …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 goal is in danger of receding – will the Ministry of Health’s ‘realignment’ get it back on track?

    … of Health proposes realigning tobacco control services to progress New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal. However, will … of existing services ensure the goal is realised? In this blog, based on a recently published letter in the New … we argue more fundamental change is required and outline how the Government could do more and the priority actions …
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  • Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation

    … smoking uptake while stimulating and supporting cessation. In this Briefing, we outline four evidence-based measures the Government should implement rapidly, to reflect its commitment to achieving the Smokefree 2025 … disquiet . The Government urgently needs to demonstrate how it will realise the goal set by a previous National …
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  • Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic

    … – sales now subject of stringent regulation – in contrast to tobacco and alcohol The Psychoactive Substances Act, which … and alcohol from the legislation? Focusing on tobacco, how are these products, that kill around five thousand New … will almost certainly be highly addictive and in the long term far more dangerous than a new type of party pill – …
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  • In the news: Public Health Priorities Series

    … closed the Public Health Priorities series with a call to action for our water regulator to do more to protect our … was republished by Water NZ in it's May/June magazine .  How to make NZ’s Tax System fairer Our second to last … of the Public Health Expert Briefing on the need for long-term thinking in its Ideasroom section on 16 February to …
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