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  • FoodSwitch. Smartphone consumers beat industry to better labeling

    … to understand. Our colleagues at the National Institute of Health and Innovation (NIHI), University of Auckland, are leading the way.  They have just launched … Dr Helen Eyles is a Research Fellow at NIHI and led the development of the NZ FoodSwitch App.  There is no direct …
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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 … in many ways the pandemic is simply a larger-scale version of the endemic and epidemic infectious diseases that exact a high toll of illness and death in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) every year …
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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 … little public or tobacco control sector engagement in the development of the plan. This means the plan may not reflect …
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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 … tend to develop as we age and are the most common cause of impaired vision. Cataract surgery removes the opacified … The result is near normal unaided visual acuity in 92% of cases. However, there are often substantial wait times for …
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  • Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls

    … protect health – even at the modest 47% coverage. Because of slightly higher coverage for Māori girls, and higher … sexually transmitted viruses. They can cause several types of cancer (such as cancers of the cervix, anus, and oropharynx) and conditions like …
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  • Action needed to halt New Zealand’s obesity epidemic: Themes from Big Food Symposium

    … initiative recently announced by the Minister of Health, they stress the critical need to focus on upstream … and possibly continue to climb. This blog explores some of these issues in more detail. The cost of overweight and … multiple policies such as generating employment, regional development schemes, increases in the minimum wage,ensuring …
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  • New Zealand can lead the world in tobacco control: Plain packaging 2.0

    … on Australia’s legislation to maximise the effectiveness of plain packaging: preventing the proliferation of brand variant names; improving the pictorial warning … shown that plain packaging has sharply reduced the appeal of smoking among both adults and adolescents (4-7). …
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  • Tighter controls on vape marketing due, but gaps remain

    … regulations that reduce the visibility and marketing of vaping products will come into effect on 17 June. While … and density, and introduce more proportionate regulation of smoked tobacco products, which remain the most harmful way … new vaping legislation that reduces ongoing marketing of vaping products will come into effect in Aotearoa New …
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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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