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  • Progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Congratulations to the Government

    … Here we examine the evidence for three key ideas outlined in the plan: permitting tobacco products to be sold in only a small number of stores; reducing the … are more likely to progress rapidly to regular smoking and long-term addiction. There is growing evidence 14 and some …
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  • Weekly deaths declined in NZ’s lockdown – but we still don’t know exactly why

    … is possibly the most dramatic public health intervention in NZ history. It helped achieve the elimination of community … need precise cause of death data (available in the future) to make more informed assessments. We examined weekly death data for NZ up to 8 June 2020 (the first 23 weeks into the year) and made …
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  • Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further

    … group, there are still striking mortality gaps that need to be addressed. Ethnic mortality inequalities are generally … epidemic (24). Accelerating declines in CVD: The decades long decline in CVD rates is a public health success story … services. … Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further …
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  • Strengthening Omicron mitigation strategies in Early Childhood Education settings

    … doubling every few days, what opportunities are there to strengthen the mitigation approaches in early education … may cause more serious illness, and research into the long-term effects of Covid-19 infection are ongoing. Young … of Education is providing information to ECEs about how to measure and improve ventilation, there has been less …
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  • Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations

    … existing regulation of tobacco and herbal smoking products to vaping products (or electronic nicotine delivery systems … products (HTPs]. The new Act represents an important step in managing access to ENDS and HTPs, and regulating how these are marketed.  In this blog, we summarise some of …
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  • Carcinogen exposure in Aotearoa workplaces is unacceptably high

    … Carcinogens Survey reveals for the first time the extent to which New Zealanders experience cancer-causing substances … cancer is fraught with difficulty. There is often a long latency period between exposure at work and the onset of … of exposure to work-related carcinogens is crucial. How do we know which workplace exposures potentially …
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  • How the tobacco industry targets young people to achieve a new generation of smokers

    … continued targeting of young people, whose addiction to nicotine will help ensure the industry’s on-going … reminds us that, despite a new-found interest in ‘ unsmoking ’ the world, and moving smokers to “reduced … that will appeal to young people. In this blog, we explore how tobacco companies have continued to recruit young people …
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  • The Omicron waves – Comparing Aotearoa NZ and Australia in four key graphs

    … In this blog we explore the first Covid-19 Omicron variant … in higher hospitalisation and ICU occupancy compared to NZ. However, when examining the Auckland region compared … rate. We recommend that the NZ Government does more to prepare for a possible second Omicron wave (as in …
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  • Children and young people and COVID-19: The urgent need for improved guidance in NZ

    … look like in Aotearoa New Zealand. There is an urgent need to improve coordination of child-centred policy in the … initially, we have very little direct experience of how the pandemic interacts with structural conditions in NZ. … outbreak (the current ‘Auckland cluster’). The country’s long history of infectious disease inequalities, and the …
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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … Summary Long COVID is emerging as a global public health concern. … care workers have a relatively high level of exposure to COVID-19 and an elevated risk of Long COVID. This article … was 0.7 percent of the total TWO Taranaki workforce 8 . How key people perceive the Long COVID service in Taranaki A …
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