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Good news on declining smoking rates, especially for Māori. Is it credible? What next?
… on the Statistics NZ website), and asks what else could be done to accelerate progress towards a smokefree nation. … actually smoke regularly, then the true prevalence would be a bit higher at 17%. Another issue is the key results … data were not good news, with Māori rates not changing – be it with wide confidence intervals ie, 37.5% in 2006/07 …
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Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them?
… XBB.1.5 . It is effective against JN.1 26 and likely to be effective against its dominant subvariants, KP.2 and KP.3 … suit. 35 For NZ to ensure that vaccines continue to be effective against emerging variants, we need ESR’s … second booster. Benefits of vaccination are likely to be greatest in people at highest risk of severe outcomes. A …
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Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant
… measures ultimately deployed. These turned out to be border closure and comprehensive managed isolation. In … criteria for when border closure for pandemics might be economically rational (Boyd 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). We … at the Ministry of Health with a research proposal only to be told that border closure in a pandemic would never be a …
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How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand
… immunity” with the hope that the epidemic in the UK will be controlled. In New Zealand, given that we continue to be able to control cases at the border and do not end up with endemic disease, our priorities need to be different. We have started with vaccinating border workers …
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Risk proportionate regulation of nicotine and tobacco products: More rhetoric than reality
… Aotearoa, agrees that nicotine and tobacco products should be regulated proportionate to the harm that they cause. … analyses how smoked tobacco and vaping products could be regulated with a risk proportionate approach in Aotearoa … groups agree smoked tobacco and vaping products should be subject to risk proportionate regulation. 1, 2 …
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Media release: Our fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care
… a fourth wave of Covid-19 and health authorities should be reminding us about the benefits of vaccination and the … Communication Centre . These data indicate there could be up to 12,000 hospitalisations and more than 1,000 deaths … and people spending more time indoors in autumn may be contributing to the numbers. Professor Baker says this …
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Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?
… to tackle our escalating obesity crisis. It will be based on Healthy Together Victoria (HTV) which the Health … it is pertinent to ask – what is HTV, how could it be adapted for New Zealand, and will it work? The launch of … and school boards to stimulate the schools’ systems to be more promoting of healthy eating and physical activity. …
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6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way
… have reiterated the 2003 guidance that sugar should be less than 10% of total energy intake a day, but have gone further to state that 5% would be better still. 5% is about 6 teaspoons per day. New … can contain around 10 or so teaspoons). There will need to be a major change in the way the food industry formulates …
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NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?
… health inequalities (another goal of the strategy) and be best value for money (yet another goal of the strategy). … We recommend that the word ‘prevention’ needs to be more than a garnish sprinkled through the document, but … etc) fall off the table. Why? We do not know. It could be that it is just too hard in a Strategy document to tackle …
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The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree
… vaping is useful for smokers who want to quit (2). It can be viewed as either a cessation tool, providing an effective … Document for the proposed Smokefree Action Plan (17) be adopted. The Discussion Document proposes bold steps … The question that remains unclear is whether this will be enough to achieve the goal of preventing recruitment of …
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