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  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … independent evidence to support heated tobacco products as smoking cessation tools. Nor does the evidence support … to in the  Coalition agreement . If the Government is, as it claims, committed to reducing smoking prevalence, it … review concluding that smoking is instead “softening”. 5   Second, while important to offer evidence-based cessation …
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  • Period Drama: How to Address Period Poverty in Aotearoa

    …   What is Period Poverty?   Many people experience periods as a mundane, if at times inconvenient, part of their … consequences when the prohibitive cost of products such as tampons or pads stops people from going to work or school … communities, thus it compounds existing inequities 5 . Period poverty has also been linked to poorer mental …
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  • The Government’s transport plans work against our health

    … The policies outlined in the draft GPS 2024 are, as a package, likely to worsen the already high levels of … implications for an already overburdened health system, as well as social, economic and environmental costs to … pollution harm from vehicles is estimated at more than $10.5 billion. 27  The social costs of road traffic injury are …
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  • Long COVID: Century-old Lessons We Still Have Not Learned

    … are its high prevalence (up to 30% of those infected) and, as reinfection is increasingly common, a dose-response … element of the short list of possible measures available. As Spinney noted in 2017 in her excellent coverage of the … 3 . In Geoffrey Rice’s Black November 4 and Black Flu 5 (together the most comprehensive coverage of the 1918-19 …
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  • Severe domestic squalor in Aotearoa New Zealand: A preliminary survey

    … There are significant health risks for these individuals as well as risks for those they live with, their carers, their … carers, their visitors, their neighbours, and their pets. 5  Because of the social isolation and distrust of others, …
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  • Why NZ should consider adopting “mass masking” as an additional step to speed elimination of the Covid-19 pandemic

    … public mask use is common in some Asian countries as a control measure in the current Covid-19 pandemic. There … a lot further than the current 2m distancing guidelines [5]. Perhaps a half or more of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 … symptoms (ie, when pre-symptomatic). One estimate is that as many as 50% of infections are transmitted from …
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  • Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?

    … Looking at Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred out by … ( see here ). But this tool can help with research – as we report in a just published review in the journal … studies), retail outlets/stores (n=9), and bars/pubs (n=5) (see references in the Online Appendix to our published …
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  • How the tobacco industry targets young people to achieve a new generation of smokers

    … people who smoke, is a matter of public record, as too are failed promises to stop selling tobacco products, … The overall aim, neatly summarised in a PR strategy as “doubt is our product”,[3, 4] was excoriatingly exposed in … the human tragedy or social costs that success exacted .”[5]   Globally, this human tragedy is projected to cost a …
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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … effect of child poverty, stress, perceptions of the future as bleak, experiences of racism and discrimination, the … are issues that will not be addressed quickly or simply. As such, we recommend a focus on positioning mental health … classification: low (2.7%), medium (6%) and high (11%). 5 Additionally, rangatahi Māori report higher rates of …
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  • Targeting a new generation – time for a greater focus on smoking uptake prevention?

    … among current smokers. This stance is understandable as rapid reductions in smoking prevalence needed to realise … greatly impacted by the health harms caused by smoking, as well as by social and financial disadvantage. The latter … is only a tiny fraction of the tax revenue collected. 4 5 Recent Government initiatives have often emphasised …
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