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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Improving the cost, composition and availability of foods can save lives

    … be an expansion on the voluntary HeartSAFE Programme in NZ that focuses on sodium content of processed foods and has … alongside the policies proposed here.   *Author details: Dr Cristina Cleghorn is based in the Department of Public …
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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … best practice in managing Long COVID. Author details Dr Shereen Zaidi was a TWO-Taranaki house officer on a public … a Senior cardiorespiratory physiotherapist at TWO-Taranaki Dr Jonathan Jarman is a public health medicine specialist and … patients attending  Long COVID clinic TWO-Taranaki; Dr John Kerr and Prof Nick Wilson. APPENDIX ONE – Summary of …
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  • Highlights of the World Conference on Tobacco or Health

    … the treaty to support such progress. The current (2014) NZ FCTC implementation report is available on the FCTC … the ASH Year 10 survey confirms that this is a concern in NZ also (results will be released shortly). There was broad …
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  • Can we manage dual use of smoking and vaping more effectively?

    … use. How can full transition to vaping be supported in NZ? Our findings have some important implications for how …
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  • Alcohol and suicide: The facts

    … you or someone else is at risk, call 111. Authors details Dr Rose Crossin , Department of Population Health, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago, Christchurch Dr Jude Ball , Department of Public Health, Ōtākou Whakaihu …
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  • Young New Zealanders want a tobacco-free future - new research

    … and reverse this ill-advised decision. Author details Dr Jude Ball , ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, and Senior … Centre, Eru Pomare Centre, University of Otago Wellington Dr Janine Nip ,  Public Health Research Fellow at the …
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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … smoke do so understanding the risks they face.[29, 30] One NZ legal judgment has upheld this reasoning. Justice Lang, … to resist wider public health measures. For example, BAT NZ’s submission on the Smokefree Action Plan proposals … of tobacco products.  Second, ensure (as Aotearoa NZ’s Action Plan does) that communities most harmed by …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … the most commonly littered item in the world. 14 A recent NZ National Litter Audit also reported that cigarette butts … policy measure For the three reasons outlined above, the NZ Government’s proposal to remove filters will finally … health policy that would curtail smoking prevalence. The NZ Government’s proposal to ban filters gives tobacco …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … actions should help to accelerate progress towards the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal.   From today, all … packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ …
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  • Climate change and cherry blossom

    … is available at the Lancet.  Listen to Alistair on Radio NZ’s Nine to Noon programme just after 9am on Friday 4 Apirl, …
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