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NZ Health Survey data released today reinforce Smokefree Legislation is crucial to reduce smoking inequities
… Newly released New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2022/2023 show that smoking … remain. Māori continue to bear a much heavier burden of harm from smoking than non-Māori University of Otago researchers from ASPIRE Aotearoa say the findings …
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… Our story The Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC) is dedicated to increasing the reach and impact of public health research, making it more accessible to the … public and decision-makers. Positioned at the intersection of Aotearoa New Zealand’s world-class public health research, …
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Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation
… tobacco companies strongly opposed the introduction of plain (or standardised) packaging, this measure increased … the Smokefree 2025 goal for all peoples. Despite the lack of evidence to justify repealing the Smokefree Environments … transformed tobacco packages from marketing media to health promoting platforms and greatly reduced the appeal of …
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Tobacco product innovation in a smokefree world. Oxymoron or commercial cynicism?
… Gendall Major tobacco companies have presented a vision of a smokefree world, where smoking prevalence has fallen to … endgame goals and appears to create opportunities for health researchers and smokefree advocates to work … strategy confirms long-held doubts about the sincerity of tobacco companies’ intentions. We report on our recently …
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Media release: Severe domestic squalor in Aotearoa New Zealand: A preliminary survey
… throughout Aotearoa NZ according to a preliminary survey of key agencies. In the latest Briefing for the Public Health Communication Centre, experts in public health and the care of older people lay out the results of their survey of local …
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Media release: Why we need an Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC)
… to be far worse than Covid-19 according to global health and infectious disease experts. In the latest Briefing … for Disease Control —Professor Michael Baker, Professor John Crump, and co-authors look at the advantages of having a CDC to build the science capacity needed for …
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Media release: Long Covid could be costing NZ $2 billion a year in lost productivity: Experts urge preventive action
… Long Covid could be costing the economy of Aotearoa New Zealand at least NZ$2 billion per year from reduced worker productivity, and that’s excluding health costs. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health … local and international evidence about the impacts of Long Covid on productivity. University of Auckland health …
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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 … New Zealand. Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a common cause of sore throats and skin infections in children but in rare … Communication Centre, Dr Julie Bennett from the University of Otago, Wellington says despite the emerging threat, New …
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Media release: Growing evidence linking plastics to serious health risk
… Evidence of the harmful effects of plastics on human health, especially from chemical … over the last five years. A Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre examines the latest evidence …
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Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing
… this week, have implications for housing and public health. This includes new public housing, extending the … the Budget to build an extra 3,000 new public homes on top of the 14,050 homes which have already been funded by the … a further 4,500 under way. T here was a welcome reduction of 10 percent in the number of households on the Ministry of …
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