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  • The Smokefree 2025 goal is in danger of receding – will the Ministry of Health’s ‘realignment’ get it back on track?

    … promotion and advocacy services contracts, end in June 2016, when they will be re-tendered (2). This action responds … in the 2010 Māori Affairs Select Committee (MASC) report , which first advanced the Smokefree 2025 goal (6). … action plan. The Māori Affairs Select Committee report into the tobacco industry (7) recommended a national …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … A new report reveals the troubling state of New Zealand’s food … supply using the comprehensive Nutritrack database , an annual survey of the packaged food supply in NZ supermarkets. … and Drinks Guidelines to Auckland Council-owned centres in 2016 was more effective when centres were supported by local …
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  • The case for denicotinising tobacco in Aotearoa NZ remains strong: response to online critique

    … study, with co-authors from the University of Otago, was a report in January 2022 to the Ministry. The second output, … major policy changes including a decade of substantial annual tobacco excise increases and plain packaging – … following additional net cessation rate in the first five annual cycles of 1 – (1-84.8%)^(1/5) = 31.3%. That is, after …
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  • The hardening hypothesis for smoking – but does the evidence point to “softening” in NZ?

    … a test of the hardening hypothesis. BMC Public Health . 2016;16:754. 13. Kulik MC, Glantz SA. The smoking population … . 2016:tobaccocontrol-2015-052860. 15. Ministry of Health. Annual Update of Key Results 2014/15: New Zealand Health … behaviours and risk factors (accessed August 13 2016).  Annual Update of Key Results 2014/15: New Zealand Health …
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  • In the news: Causes of baby death during pregnancy and after examined in perinatal death report

    … The New Zealand Herald followed up on the findings of the annual Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) report and the Briefing,  Aotearoa’s perinatal and maternal … during pregnancy and after examined in perinatal death report …
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  • Another Havelock North? Govt undoing protections for drinking water safety

    … campylobacteriosis outbreak occurred in Havelock North in 2016, the National-led Government established a formal … for strengthened drinking water policy In 2017, the report of the Official Inquiry into the Havelock North … time passes, knowledge of the circumstances of the August 2016 outbreak will fade and its immediate impact will be …
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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … impact on the NZ hospital system (Figure 23.1 in its NZ report). This graphic shows the hospital system moving into … from February to April (Figure 24.1 in IHME’s NZ report). In the comparison countries in the same region, this … in NZ might over-estimate true capacity (given a recent report on the very constrained ICU capacity in NZ at …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … delayed decreases in alcohol-attributable mortality . The Report prepared by the NZ Ministry of Justice (that Minister … and $624 million over ten years, respectively). But the report also recommended against a minimum price of alcohol … Lancet paper) and challenging implementation issues. The Report suggested waiting to see the evaluations from …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey

    … . About the New Zealand Health Survey The NZHS is an annual nationally representative population survey. It has … been collected in each survey since 2015/16 except in the 2016/17 survey.   Full details of the methods and a methodology report are available on the Ministry of Health website. Data …
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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … appropriate financing [1]. The main finding of the GHSI Report is that collectively international preparedness is … more should be done to prevent and mitigate. In August 2016 Havelock North suffered the world’s worst ever … to the Ebola outbreak of 2014–16, concluded in their 2019 Annual Report that we live in ‘A World at Risk’ and urged …
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