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Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?
… In this blog we discuss some of the modelling results and also the other policy options that could be explored. … be used in funding other aspects of tobacco control and/or to fund health services. An extra plus is that the weight … NZ’s smoking prevalence is projected to fall from 15.1% in 2013 to 8.7% by 2025. This result is compared to 9.9% …
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Media release: Why the Smokefree legislation must stay - Laying out the evidence:
… smokefree legislation runs directly contrary to evidence and will ensure smoking continues to cost thousands of lives and millions of health care dollars. In the latest Briefing … evidence-based, removing it is not , Professor Janet Hoek and co-authors from the Universities of Otago and Auckland …
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Media release: Poverty and disadvantage fuel NZ’s rising rates of dementia
… to those in the least deprived areas. Dr ‘Etuini Ma’u and co-authors from the Department of Psychological Medicine … are associated with increasing social disadvantage. “Māori and Pacific peoples are overrepresented in the more … deprivation. These findings indicate that the higher risk and rates of dementia in Māori and Pacific peoples are not …
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Media release: Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable
… the increase of speed limits, announced at the weekend, and strong global efforts to improve road safety according to … 2024 comes under the scrutiny of an injury epidemiologist and others in the latest Briefing from the Public Health … 50km/h speed limits in areas where there are pedestrians or outside of schools are extremely rare.” The World Health …
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Media release: Evidence shows wider benefits of free school lunches
… provide wide benefits across schools, households and communities according to public health researchers. ACT … Centre , University of Auckland researcher Dr Kelly Garton and co-authors Dr Rachael Glassey and Professor David Tipene-Leach of Te P ū kenga, Hawke’s Bay …
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Concluding the Public Health Solutions Series 
… week, the health system “ remains under massive strain ” and with the relaxing of covid rules this issue is unlikely … near future. The ongoing demands of Covid-19, long covid and deferred routine care will continue to place untenable … strain on the health system will lead to worsening health and widening health inequities. Policies that are designed to …
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Media release: A new voice to boost New Zealand’s response to major public health challenges
… (PHCC) will boost the impact of research to improve health and equity in Aotearoa New Zealand along with greater … examples include New Zealand’s new smokefree legislation and its Covid-19 response which has kept excess mortality … areas such as infant mortality, particularly for Māori and Pasifika.” Speaking at the launch of the PHCC (9 …
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Engaging online simulator of measles outbreaks (& how NZ needs to do better in eliminating measles)
… spread. We comment on why this simulator is informative and how it also demonstrates chance effects in the spread of … coverage levels of 95% to achieve herd immunity (1). But for other less infectious diseases, like polio and … Sometimes those “others” might even be a younger sister or brother. Sometimes it will be a highly vulnerable child …
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Media release: Rise in congenital syphilis requires action – experts
… syphilis that is having inequitable impacts amongst Māori and Pacific whānau and for pregnant women and babies in Aotearoa. Experts in congenital syphilis say …
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Media release: Youth vaping -The implications of addiction
… mean an increase in nicotine addiction among young people, and the accompanying negative impacts on their wellbeing, warn public health and addiction experts. In the latest Briefing from the Public … Centre, University of Otago ASPIRE Network researchers and a psychiatrist specialising in youth addiction outline …
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