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Illicit tobacco trade and the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: Arguments and evidence
… and increasing quitting [1]. To ensure life-saving public health policies achieve their intended goal, illicit tobacco … (p.10). These comments imply associations between public health measures and illicit trade, yet, globally, tobacco … also. For example, a 2010 report commissioned by British American Tobacco claimed illicit tobacco represented 3.3% of …
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Media release: Can we move to a low carbon, healthy transport system?
… country according to results of a survey by the Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC). This is the third in our … pricing and shifting Aotearoa NZ to more sustainable and health promoting transport. Lead author Associate Professor … promising in terms of reducing emissions and improving health but still has gaps.” says Dr Shaw. The results of the …
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Media release: Plugging the gap: Aotearoa’s piped water loss far worse than global leaders
… far higher than global leaders, posing risks to public health and wasting around $122 million each year according to the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . Research by Prof Nick Wilson … act to address leaking water systems that impact public health, strain local resources, and cost our communities …
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Do Aotearoa’s new vaping regulations go far enough?
… day (data were not reported by ethnicity). Analyses of NZ Health survey data show that current (at least monthly) use … uptake of a highly addictive product. 2 A Ministry of Health statement noted that Cabinet had approved measures to … in the last year. However, during the same period, the NZ Health Survey reported that 119,000 young people aged 15 to …
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Media release: New report shows how regional plans could transform freshwater quality
… plans according to academics. In the latest Public Health Communication Centre Briefing , research fellow with … its own solution, providing constructive and timely information for councils charged with protecting and … rules for each catchment to restore and protect the health of waterways and achieve other community goals (like …
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Faster mortality decline – slower population ageing. How could this be?
… and gloom due to the tsunami of older people with poor health? A tsunami that will overload health and social services, etc. Have you then asked yourself … broad brush consensus is that the proportion lived in good health is holding up (4). Put another way, people are …
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Preventing outbreaks of COVID-19 in NZ associated with air travel from Australia: New Modelling study of alternatives to quarantine
… nation like NZ. Whatever approach is chosen, careful management and evaluation will be needed. NZ is one of the … temperature and heart rate, and so alert individuals and health authorities of potential illness developing before … virus. However, all approaches require continuous careful management and detailed evaluation. Author details: Nick …
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Sustained Resilience: the impact of nuclear war on New Zealand and how to mitigate catastrophe
… People will panic. This is natural. But actions hinge on information held. The nuclear impact study in NZ found that … against nuclear winter on climate targets, inequality, health, the economy. Include nuclear war, nuclear winter, and … Future Fund . Prof Wilson is with the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington. Views are the …
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Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19
… risk than Aucklanders wastes limited MIQ space. Public health would be better served by having those rooms available … their homes are not suitable for home isolation. Effective management of the Covid-19 pandemic depends on effective risk … strategy (ie, to minimise the impact of Covid-19 on public health and keep the case load from overwhelming the …
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Media release: Urgent action needed: Aotearoa must accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer
… disease. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre , Cancer Society of New Zealand … screening, and treatment. NZ has signed up to the World Health Organization’s cervical cancer elimination initiative … to HPV vaccination in schools, pharmacies, and through health promotion campaigns. “Australia is on track to be the …
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