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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Stemming the tide of cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. In a recent issue of the medical journal The Lancet , a colleague and I had the opportunity to co-author a … programme could identify those with the hepatitis infection, and provide ongoing liver surveillance to find …
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  • Proposed vaping regulations for NZ: Strengths and limitations

    … contains some important provisions as it works to strike a balance between ensuring regulated products are available … vaping uptake by young people that we summarised in a previous blog and clarifies that the ban on tobacco … area provisions so these apply to regulated products, a measure that we have supported previously. 1   Beliefs that …
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  • Smokefree Laws: Reducing tobacco outlets will decrease crime

    … crime, particularly ram raids targeting tobacco products, a claim based on anecdote. In this Briefing, we examine … which suggests these crimes are decreasing and that only a minority target tobacco products. We also explain why … below shows ram raids rose until late 2022; however, after that time, ram raids declined considerably, which may …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Where the sun enters, the doctor does not

    … safe, secure homes with enough space to avoid crowding (a risk for infectious diseases such as rheumatic fever and … than children living in warm, dry homes .   Once a child is admitted to hospital, they are more likely to be … costs over the past 20 years** and children’s bedrooms, often south-facing, are frequently unheated . An evaluation …
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  • Energy poverty: The lowest-income households pay more in Aotearoa

    … are expected to rise significantly from 2025, due to a combination of factors putting pressure on Aotearoa New … this, they still don’t meet their energy needs and as a result experience negative health and wellbeing … and practice With increased pressures on cost of living after COVID-19 we expect that the number of households …
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  • The draft NZ Health Strategy: Will it enable New Zealanders to “live well, stay well and get well”?

    … aspects, at least rhetorically. It includes phrases like a system moving “from treatment to prevention”. But how does … well and get well”. The draft NZ Health Strategy (1) has a strong focus on strengthening the health care system. As … Zealanders. It also appears to have some strengths from a population health perspective, at least in its use of …
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  • In the media: Govt response to Long Covid inadequate: Report

    … Even a conservative estimate puts the number of New Zealanders … being interviewed about the Briefing Long Covid Update – a threat that continues to demand a strong response that brings together the evolving evidence. …
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  • Protecting children in cars from tobacco smoke: The inconsistent case of new mandatory child restraints while optional smoking persists

    … regulation that protects children in the event of a car crash, but are unwilling to protect them from known … seventh birthday, and seven year olds must continue to use a child restraint if one is available. 1 The NZ Transport … other countries either have or intend to follow suit. As often happens with public health policy, the government is …
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  • The hardening hypothesis for smoking – but does the evidence point to “softening” in NZ?

    … with mental health conditions). The net effect should be a reduced rate of quitting among the smoking population over time. However, studies from a variety of countries that have looked at these different … (1-11). The most recent international evidence comes from a Dutch study which found that in repeated population-based …
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  • Living longer, living healthier? Latest Official Report on independent life expectancy in NZ

    … analysis, as hard as it is to get right, is important – as a society we do not want to just live longer, but live longer … industrial revolution (i.e. before spending six months on a leaky boat travelling to NZ), to 80.3 years for non-Māori … time lived in good health. In demography circles, this is a hot topic, and is sometimes framed in terms of the …
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