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  • A Statue of Merit: Dr Margaret Cruickshank and the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … this case the pandemic ) and a biography of the person (e.g., as per this website [5]). Statues provide relatively … statue could cause additional suffering to many people e.g., can you imagine a statue of Hitler in any public place? … societal concerns over time and for art history reasons. E.g., statues of Stalin have been put into “fallen monument” …
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  • Key findings on smoking and e-cigarette use prevalence and trends in the 2020/21 NZ Health Survey

    … 25.7% in 2020/21. The decrease was greater among women e.g., current smoking prevalence fell from 35.0% to 25.8% while … was driven largely by falls in prevalence among men (e.g. current smoking changed from 14% to 9%). There were also … pandemic resulted in a systematic change to the methods e.g., to the sampling strategy, participation rates or to the …
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  • To ensure success of the trans-Tasman travel “green zone”, we need to reduce system failures at the NZ border

    … appear to have then infected another person (Case G), potentially on a charter flight after leaving the … (Case F) [19] [21]. Two household contacts of Case G were also infected [19]. Border facility health worker … travelling to NZ [42], the authors state: “Passenger G was a travel companion of passenger F, and their date of …
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  • Oral nicotine products: Expanding the nicotine marketplace

    … to include e-cigarettes (ECs) heated tobacco products (e.g., IQOS) and, more recently, oral nicotine products (ONPs). … attractive packages, feature youth-oriented brand names (e.g., ZYN, which has breed cult neologisms, such as …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … measurement of individuals’ socioeconomic factors (e.g. with lifelong cohort studies) would almost certainly see … to health that do not go through socioeconomic position (e.g. direct discrimination, tobacco consumption related to … ethnicity for reasons other than socioeconomic position (e.g. Māori females have smoked at high rates ever since first …
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  • Five Strategic Approaches to Achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal

    … governments have also adopted similar smokefree goals e.g. Canada, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden and Finland. In … of these cost-savings can occur within the first year (e.g., from preventing: premature births, acute respiratory … pictorial warnings on packs, smoking cessation support (e.g., the Quitline and subsidised pharmacotherapies); and …
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  • How might NZ expand community water fluoridation?

    … notable for including some high quality studies from NZ (e.g., evidence from a longitudinal study [3] that exposure to … could clarify if this was a feasible option for NZ e.g., in terms of such options as: A legal requirement in …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … key ways to address these are probably price signals (e.g., tobacco tax increases [2,3]) and a healthier food … is being done by the National Health Service in the UK e.g., see this website . An alternative case would be to …
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  • Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis

    … initiating systems-based approaches with communities (e.g. Healthy Families, Healthy Auckland Together) developing … media, including during children’s peak viewing times (e.g. up to 9pm) b. in non-broadcast media, including food … Classification System. 6. Introduce a substantial (e.g. 20%) tax on sugar-sweetened beverages and explore using …
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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … that from 2015 it will take on medical devices (e.g. hip prostheses and heart valves) as well.  Like any other prioritisation agency within health (e.g. the National Health Committee in New Zealand, or the …
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