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  • Covid recovery or sustainable transformation?

    … will need to support other priorities critical to public wellbeing and long-term economic strength, such as … that the country cannot afford to make substantial public investments for a zero-carbon transition. A compelling … further changes, and the extent to which members of the public who have lost their jobs or who can’t easily adapt, …
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  • What is happening with vaping among adolescents and young adults in Aotearoa?

    … are available for 15-17 year olds from the New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) from 2011/12 to 2021/22 . The 2021/22 … of supply among older school students. Implications for public health policy and practice There are major gaps in the … Pomare Centre; and Edwards, Ball and Hoek - Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington. Competing …
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  • Optimising the effects of plain packaging for tobacco – making Quitline information more salient

    … that determine implementation of the new law. The Health Select Committee has proposed four objectives for the … embellished only by large and off-putting pictorial health warnings, are likely to create considerable dissonance …
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  • New standardised packaging regulations: Some good steps, but many missed opportunities

    … bold have New Zealand politicians been? The Ministry of Health has done well in developing regulations that advance … observed in Australia; these changes will benefit public health. However, failure to introduce evidence-based changes, …
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  • SARS-CoV-2: A modern Greek Tragedy?

    … then, in research funded by the US National Institute of Health, taking place at the Wuhan Institute of Virology: “Dr. … of political point scoring made their information public, then the US would have immediately been implicated. … well advance ‘funeral by funeral’. Greek Tragedy As one public health physician has recently put it: “The irony is …
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  • Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?

    … estimated 6000 retail outlets remains one of the greatest public health travesties of our time. At present, anyone may sell …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … and healthy who incur higher infection rates? Under a health gain maximising utilitarian framework, yes. So long as … minus 10,000). So these analyses suggest a strong extra health benefit of the eradication strategy over the ‘flatten … eradication versus flattening the curve (eg, in the health sector, across the economy – and factoring in that …
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  • Using the CovidCard to enhance protection from COVID-19 at the NZ border

    … the entrepreneur/philanthropist Sam Morgan and the private-public partnership team. The CovidCard is a credit card sized … burden for Government (and everyone else including the public) about the source of transmission. Contact data from …
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  • New proposals to limit youth vaping from Labour: Do they go far enough?

    … people who had not previously smoked. A recent Ministry of Health report pooling 2021 and 2022 NZHS data supports these … will have on protecting young people. Implications for public health policy and practice Politicians from all … from the Vaping Regulatory Authority, which should make public details of its monitoring and compliance operations, …
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  • Casting a long shadow: Infection drives stomach cancer inequalities in Māori and Pacific peoples

    … poor stomach cancer survival. In 2013 the Ministry of Health reported that 80 Māori and 35 Pacific people died from … be better addressed in New Zealand. It may be time for health authorities to start considering piloting a H. pylori …
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