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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … their experiences at the World Conference on Tobacco of Health. All commented that, in retrospect, they would have … also to provide evidence that supports other countries’ health goals. Previously, New Zealand has introduced … of standardised packaging will also require close management and on-going review.  Standardised packaging …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … We walk through how to pull down tables and graphs of health gain (quality-adjusted life-years; QALYs), health system costs and cost effectiveness for 50+ … cost-offsets due to reduced disease rates (costs the health system less) but also increased longevity (costs more …
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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: counterarguments to industry claims

    … of outlets selling tobacco is likely to improve population health and decrease health inequities by reducing smoking … if they were no longer able to sell tobacco. The NZ Association of Convenience Stores (NZACS) has previously … group that represents Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco (BAT), among numerous other major …
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  • Major vaping reforms: Will they deliver on public health aims?

    … people who vape experiencing adverse  physical and mental health outcomes, including addiction. 5-8 In response, the … reduce toxic vape waste that poses serious  environmental health risks . 17   Likely impact on public health The known effects of tobacco policies offer important …
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  • Will the Government’s new Smokefree Plan achieve Aotearoa’s smokefree goal?

    … messaging and campaigns to prevent uptake; providing health promotion resources to communities; increasing retail … support (e.g. through brief interventions in primary health services) and supporting people to stay ‘smokefree’ … released the in the same week that sweeping cuts to public health staff were announced . In the absence of appropriate …
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  • Calculating cardiovascular risk with online calculators – scope for improvement?

    … ways to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) – with public health measures being particularly critical. These include … (2)). But individual measures are also important – with health workers providing targeted advice on lifestyle change … For those at high risk, the calculator provides information about seeing a doctor about CVD medications. The …
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  • The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality

    … This is important, highlighting room to improve in our health sector. This blog we canvass how bad (or good) the … has been previously reported by the Ministry of Health , ourselves and others (see North and South Graphic of … And this improving survival is a global pattern. The health system is getting better at detecting cancer early, …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … need to know how much of ethnic inequalities in health are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco smoking, … by as much. “How much of ethnic inequalities in health are due to socioeconomic position?” And “How much are … even more generally questions of “what mediates the causal association of exposure X with outcome Y?” – that a massive …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … from Monsanto; and 5) the EPA ignored the Ministry of Health which notified the Authority it could not support the … reports that are available in the public realm. Was the information on exposure and doses provided by Monsanto? If … benefit” thinking to the front end of risk assessment and management. The glyphosate muddle needs to be sorted because …
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  • From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for COVID-19

    … owes a debt of gratitude to its pandemic modellers, public health officials and politicians – we have avoided the … of the speeding epidemic car, as well as dealing with the health services avalanche. We have three choices. First, we … Unemployment and precarious housing leads to worse health and premature deaths too – possibly more than a …
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