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Media release: Youth vaping -The implications of addiction
… negative impacts on their wellbeing, warn public health and addiction experts. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, University of Otago ASPIRE Network researchers and a psychiatrist … who vape, including anxiety and mood disorders. The number of young people vaping is higher in New Zealand than in …
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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 … and reduce smoking rates – while benefiting population health and generating savings on health care spending (1-3). …
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Charting our way back to normal
… Trade-offs, allows people to weigh the costs and benefits of different policy responses as Australia rolls out vaccines … to estimate infection rates as well as the different health losses and gains across hundreds of scenarios during the vaccine rollout as a way to road test …
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Vaping prevalence and trends: Important findings from 2023-24 NZ Health Survey
… Summary New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2023/2024 have been released. … and people living in neighbourhoods with higher levels of deprivation. The findings call for detailed ongoing … the NZHS data explorer provided data on sole and dual use of vapes and cigarettes (Figure 2). Increases in vaping have …
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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). The second Briefing in …
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Public Health Solutions Series: Where the sun enters, the doctor does not
… and improving building standards . This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health … home injury hazards and building to better standards. Most of our existing houses are old and built to relatively low …
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Media release: Insulation matters - The evidence for keeping our improved Building Code standards
… Any rollback of our insulation standards will cost industry, energy savings and our health according to public health researchers. The Government is considering reducing the level of insulation required in new homes. In the latest Briefing …
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Media release: Poor ventilation on buses and trains – a fixable risk to health
… on our buses and trains is leading to an increased risk of passing on respiratory infections such as Covid-19, … to new research. The latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre details the results of testing on public transport from April to June. The …
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Media release: Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable
… the Government’s decision to move ahead with the increase of speed limits, announced at the weekend, and strong global efforts to improve road safety according to public health experts. The increase in speed limits in New Zealand’s Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024 comes under the scrutiny of an injury …
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Media release: The economic argument for our world-leading smokefree legislation – new research
… growth in income for New Zealanders with a total gain of NZ$46 billion by 2050 according to new modelling just … at all the major potential long-term economic impacts of the smokefree measures that the new coalition Government … their research in the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre. The research looks at the growth …
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