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Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal
… 10% per annum increases in tobacco tax alone will not be able to achieve the 2025 Goal. In this blog post we … than smokefree area expansion. The latter can also be done by local government to some extent (though not for a … lid on tobacco supply [18] [19] [20]. This could also be part of a “regulated market model” [21]. (ii) …
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Has the time come for a register of AI systems used by government agencies?
… population. 9,10 These poorer outcomes are likely to be mediated through multiple pathways such as discrimination … an added short-term cost, all new health AI teams should be diverse and should account for the introduction of bias at … of Colour and their circumstances. 13 This tendency can be linked to homogeneous design teams generalising their own …
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Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks
… Summary Will the next Government be ready for the future? In this Briefing we analyse … Risk Management Act. In conclusion, there appears to be inadequate concern by this country’s political parties … article , and the articles in the series will be collated here as they are published. If a nuclear warhead …
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Can CT screening for lung cancer in New Zealand be cost-effective?
… Europe, decisions have been more cautious. Decisions may be dependent on the results of the Dutch Belgian randomised … the cost-effectiveness of low-dose CT screening must be rigorously analysed.” And, “The cost-effectiveness of low-dose CT screening must also be considered in the context of competing interventions, …
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Social media and youth wellbeing: The need for a multi-layered public health approach
… social media use in young people. A similar approach could be introduced in Aotearoa New Zealand, where giving children … showing that Māori are more likely than non-Māori to be exposed to content promoting discrimination based on race, … measures before granting site access. While it remains to be seen if this approach is effective and how the law will be …
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Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic
… promise is that if such a wide parliamentary consensus can be achieved on party pills, proportionate action on tobacco … the general public. However, its real importance may not be the modest health gains that result from controlling the … to individuals using it’. New psychoactive products will be prohibited on a precautionary basis until a newly …
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Covid recovery or sustainable transformation?
… has underestimated these risks for too long. They need to be confronted. One of the most profound risk s ahead, as we … co-benefits (cleaner air, for example) that it would be correspondingly easy to achieve similar gains in the quest … likely, the required long-term multi-sector changes will be much more difficult to create and embed than changes made …
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Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls
… as in Australia) would achieve more health gain and still be cost-effective. In this blog we discuss these findings and … first of the three doses before their 20 th birthday to be eligible for the free vaccination programme. In 2011, the … screening alone). These cost-effectiveness figures can all be considered to be good value-for-money if we use the …
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Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?
… and vaporisers to obtain nicotine) is likely to be less harmful than smoking tobacco when smokers make a full … “ no restrictions are proposed on where e-cigarettes can be sold so this would include, for example, dairies, service … flaws: first, that smoked tobacco should continue to be widely available and, second, that potentially addictive …
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Health-related food taxes and subsidies: A critique of opposition arguments
… arguments opposing such policies and suggesting they would be ineffective, “nanny-state”, or detrimental to NZ’s food … Consideration of such arguments, however, reveals many to be flawed, based on rhetoric or underpinned by selective … levels to boost flavour). A simple policy response might be widespread taxes covering a range of junk foods – to …
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