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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … explored business-as-usual trends in smoking prevalence, and the potential roles of interventions such as higher … support by the public for tobacco endgame strategies (1-5), or at least for increased government action on tobacco …
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  • What public health lessons can NZ still learn from the United States?

    … health problems – including declining life expectancy and an exorbitantly expensive health care system. However, … OECD standards, due partly to high administrative costs [1]. There are even the peculiarities of health agencies being … in US cities typically earmark the tax revenue for health or educational services – which probably increases the public …
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  • Alcohol and suicide: The facts

    … Alcohol use often exacerbates mental health problems and is a well-known risk factor for suicide. Health experts … risk factor for suicide, backed up by decades of research. 1-3 New Zealand research shows that over a quarter of people … is clear that alcohol is not a solution to emotional or mental health problems. The relief it provides is fleeting …
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  • What will the Government’s free vape starter kit programme achieve?

    … number of people who stop smoking, using both optimistic and pessimistic assumptions. We find that, at best, this … to stop smoking this year. This estimate is less than 1% of the 82,000+ people who need to quit if we are to … therapy, 7 of 100 using e‐cigarettes without nicotine, or 4 of 100 people having no support or behavioural support …
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  • Climate Change and Recent Actions of NZ Political Parties

    … highest grade to the Green Party, then the Labour Party, and then The Opportunities Party (TOP). This blog takes a … both opportunities for advancing development and health [1] and also a range of possible disastrous outcomes [2] [3]. … related to climate change (i.e., not media statements or speeches in Parliament but actual actions). It considers …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 2)

    … This is Part 2 of a two-part blog by Dr Caroline Shaw and Associate Professor Diana Sarfati on breast cancer screening. In Part 1 t hey looked at the contested research around breast cancer … on whether you select information from the ‘in favour’ or ‘not in favour’ end of the spectrum breast screening will …
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  • The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review

    … summarises our just published article on the mortality and morbidity impacts of the First World War on the NZ … personnel who left NZ for the war is detailed in Table 1 (a simplified version of the one published in our article … of those who signed up to other militaries (eg, the UK or Australia). Lifespan loss for military personnel Up to 10 …
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  • Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action

    … to the COVID-19 pandemic by achieving elimination and the lowest death rate in the OECD. But there are ongoing … of COVID-19 with the lowest death rate in the OECD [1, 2]. The massive economic rebound at a 14% rise in GDP for … a false sense of reassurance and yet it might be 6 months or more before there is adequate vaccination coverage of New …
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  • What can we learn from Healthy Housing Initiatives? New evidence from the Wellington Well Homes scheme

    … conditions result in ill health for many New Zealanders, and we know which interventions are required to ensure good … temperatures and mould impair children’s lung function (1,2), that almost 28,000 hospitalisations per year are for … and mould-cleaning kits that can help make the home warmer or drier. If relevant they may offer to talk to the landlord …
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  • The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not

    … Government is committed to addressing the tobacco epidemic and that it will follow the evidence; both coalition … from around 6000 to no more than 600; Denicotinisation, or lowering the nicotine content of cigarettes and tobacco to … trials, epidemiological investigations, modelling 1 , opinion surveys, and in-depth analyses of people who …
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