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Does change in income and deprivation change your smoking risk? Yes, but in different directions.
… knows that lower socioeconomic groups are more likely to smoke. But why? Is it because of things like less … deprivation and income. Research we have just published in the journal Tobacco Control, answers these questions using … tease out causation from correlation, because it tracked how the smoking behaviours of 11,000 Kiwis changed when their …
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Media release: A call to make Invasive Group A Strep notifiable in New Zealand
… Public Health experts say there’s an increase worldwide in severe infections involving group A streptococcus and they are calling for it to be made a notifiable condition in New Zealand. Group A … to investigate the likely modes of transmission and how this infection can be prevented. Such studies could look …
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Media release: Covid-19 vaccines work, but we need to do more to get the most out of them
… your Covid-19 boosters is still the most effective way to protect yourself in the ongoing pandemic, infectious … John Potter from Massey University and co-authors detail how vaccines against Covid-19 remain effective at preventing … protection against infection, hospitalisation, death and Long Covid as well as improving outcomes for pregnant people. …
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The case for tobacco supply restrictions
… It is now time to reduce the number and density of retail outlets selling … not to depart from these. Unplanned purchases illustrate how highly visible in-store stimuli such as shelf-talkers, … Retailers who placed tobacco products out of sight long before they were required to do so, or who voluntarily …
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Media release: NZ lags behind on indoor ventilation standards: World Ventil8 Day
… Poor ventilation in buildings in Aotearoa NZ means the air we are breathing … Ventil8 Day (8 Nov), experts are calling for improvements to our Building Code to put health front and centre, and the … Health Communication Centre, World Ventilation Day – How do our buildings measure up , public health experts look …
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Media release: What can we do to reduce the number of babies dying before, during or soon after birth?
… There were more than 700 fetal and neonatal deaths in 2021, that’s a rate of 11.2 per 1000 births according to the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee’s … and encourage a robust conversation about what needs to be done. The committee has recommended prevention, …
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MR: To avoid a measles epidemic, Aotearoa must close the ‘immunity gap’
… The number of children in Aotearoa New Zealand who are not immunised against measles is still growing and we are now close to the tipping point that set off measles epidemics in … warn public health experts. While there have been moves to improve immunisation coverage, the number of …
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Alcohol and suicide: The facts
… are alarmed about incorrect and harmful statements to the contrary made by Mike King on Wednesday and Thursday … risk. This Briefing provides a summary of key evidence in response to mental health campaigner, Mike King’s, recent comments …
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Happiness surveys, & can health sector interventions improve well-being?
… According to the just released “ World Happiness Report 2013 ”, New Zealanders are among the happiest people in the world, ranking 13 th out of 156 nations examined. … mental health loss), while cautiously learning more about how policy might enhance measures of well-being more …
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Media release: Making the consumer care guidelines for electricity retailers mandatory could save lives
… Guidelines for electricity retailers mandatory, according to Energy poverty researcher Dr Kimberley O’Sullivan and He … approach isn’t working. We need basic standards of care to be followed to protect health and avoid potential fatalities,” says Dr O’Sullivan. In the latest Briefing published by the Public Health …
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