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Progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Congratulations to the Government
… minimal smoking prevalence and eliminate smoking-related health disparities in Aotearoa. Key measures proposed … here ); after analysing the feedback, the Ministry of Health will prepare a revised plan for Cabinet approval. The … policy, like other measures, should be accompanied by an information campaign explaining the policy rationale, …
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Media release: Faulty alcohol outlet data undermines efforts to reduce $9 billion annual harm
… to 88% according to new analysis. These findings by public health researchers and Alcohol Healthwatch are published in a new Briefing by the Public Health Communication Centre . When comparing with council … is a simple one of ‘bad data in, bad data out’; that is, information provided by many councils is sporadic, …
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Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation
… transformed tobacco packages from marketing media to health promoting platforms and greatly reduced the appeal of … more effectively with people who smoke. Introduce health promoting inserts Participants found on-pack warnings … could succeed in becoming smokefree. 9 Canada has used health promoting inserts for many years, Australia is …
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Proposals to reduce youth vaping: Important steps but a more comprehensive approach needed
… number of stores selling tobacco, Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall has outlined proposals to strengthen … rapidly rising youth vaping rates ; the latest NZ Health Survey found daily vaping among 18 to 24 year olds … Detailed monitoring will require relevant surveillance information, including studies examining reasons why people …
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Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed
… rising youth vaping . Manat ū Hauora, the Ministry of Health, accepts vaping offers a reduced harm alternative to … year olds vape daily (22% among Māori) and the latest NZ Health survey found 15% of young people aged 15 to 17 vape … A recent analysis of NZHS survey data by the Ministry of Health reported similar findings for 15-17 year olds; …
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Media release: Covid-19 vaccines work, but we need to do more to get the most out of them
… disease experts say we could get even better public health value from the vaccines. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre , Professor John Potter from … Professor Potter, who is at Massey’s Centre for Public Health Research, says we should have an active strategy to …
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ACC turns 50: A more modern approach to injury prevention needed
… Stronger collaboration with researchers, public health agencies, and government could enhance ACC’s role in … for prevention? How can ACC play a stronger public health role? Need to update injury prevention model to … ACC is not playing as strong a role as it could in public health promotion, it’s not heeding up-to-date best practice, …
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“Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a new Action Plan to achieve our smokefree goal
… widespread media coverage and support from the medical and health community and organisations; for example the Asthma … 2017 . In an address at the launch, Associate Minister of Health Nicky Wagner promised to consider the recommendations. … of tobacco tax increases and predicts greater health gain for Māori compared to non-Māori (3,4). We propose …
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Daily aspirin for preventing cancer and heart disease – where to from here in NZ?
… looks at the issues and considers possible responses by NZ health agencies and research funders. What is the evidence? … – 0.17 deaths caused by aspirin by age 75 What might NZ health agencies do now? A possible first step is for a suitable NZ health agency (Pharmac, the Ministry of Health, or the …
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Media release: Social media age restrictions needed to protect young people from harm
… A new Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC) calls for age limits on … media use is linked to a range of mental and physical health problems in youth. It highlights policy options for … that these platforms can negatively affect youth mental health has become too great to ignore,” she says. “We now …
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