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Media release: Youth vaping -The implications of addiction
… New Zealand than in comparable countries and according to Dr Jude Ball from ASPIRE, advances in vaping technology mean … the risk of addiction for young people is higher,” says Dr Ball. Dr Ball and co-authors argue that the effects of addiction …
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Media release: Vaping crackdown falls short: Gaps in new bill leave youth at risk
… Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . Dr Jude Ball and co-authors say if the Government wants to … for online sales, and disallowing price discounts. Dr Ball says stopping price discounting, loyalty schemes, … to other countries, particularly among Māori youth. NZ youth vaping rates are nearly twice as high as estimates …
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Media release: ACC turns 50 - Time to up the game on injury prevention
… Health Communication Centre , long-time researcher on ACC, Dr Grant Duncan and co-author, University of Otago injury … strategies have changed since ACC was launched in 1974. Dr Duncan says as a world-leading, universal, no-fault … improve injury prevention equity,” says Professor Keall. Dr Duncan says ACC can play a stronger public health role in …
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Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change
… swept across large parts of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) in February this year, it displaced thousands of people … water infrastructure. Author details: Prof Nick Wilson , Dr Tim Chambers , Marnie Prickett , Adele Broadbent and Dr John Kerr , all Department of Public Health, University of …
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Media release: New Zealand’s hungry teens four years behind in their learning - free school lunches provide solution
… behind their peers who never miss meals," says researcher Dr Pippa McKelvie-Sebileau. Analysis by Dr McKelvie-Sebileau and Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) … the lunches. The PISA data is in line with the latest NZ Health Survey results which showed the largest jump on …
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Media release: Prevention and treatment of mental disorders will help reduce dementia
… Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre , Dr Etuini Ma’u and co-authors from the Department of … life-course approach to mental health is essential,” says Dr Ma’u. “That means supporting children, whānau and … a much higher price later.” Dementia rates in Aotearoa NZ are projected to double within 25 years, soaring from an …
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Updating the role of the state: the case of housing in New Zealand
… – Homes and Communities . Its main subsidiary is Housing NZ, the government housing provider. Kāinga Ora’s mandate is … stock in 2017, from 4 percent in 2008. In 2018-19, Housing NZ built 1,461 state rental homes, the largest number in 20 … ambition. Former National Deputy PM English called Housing NZ “the biggest slum landlord in the country”. National’s …
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Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected
… injuries In 2023, 341 people died in road crashes in NZ . In around a third of these, speed was a contributing … of changes in crash rates in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) following reductions in speed limits, found notable … | University of Canterbury, Ōtautahi | Christchurch. Dr Angela Curl , Te Tari Hauora Taupori | Department of …
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Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax
… fats as a proportion of energy intake from all fats for NZ adults (NZ Adult Nutrition Survey 2008/09) The debate and media … gases such as methane – but this keeps being delayed by NZ politicians. This need not mean we turn our back on modern …
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Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”
… By pretty good design (we did not lockdown as hard as in NZ) and probably a fair amount of luck, it appears that all … the world. Just not as good as the rest of Australia and NZ. And one we could cope with. C’est la vie. But injury has … as it would have been for – say Western Australia (or NZ…). Second, and declaring I do not have full facts on this, …
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