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Will the Government’s new Smokefree Plan achieve Aotearoa’s smokefree goal?
… Aotearoa’s action on tobacco control had involved a mix of mostly demand-reduction focused population level … population interventions to address the nature and supply of tobacco products. This change was seen as vital to bring a … messaging and campaigns to prevent uptake; providing health promotion resources to communities; increasing retail …
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New Zealand can lead the world in tobacco control: Plain packaging 2.0
… on Australia’s legislation to maximise the effectiveness of plain packaging: preventing the proliferation of brand variant names; improving the pictorial warning … impactful warning compared to a plain pack with a strong health warning. Evidence that this particular group was less …
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Fast-track Approvals Bill a threat to public health, warn researchers
… Public health researchers are raising concerns over the implications of the Fast-track Approvals Bill saying it will put Aotearoa … and review Ministers’ comments to identify the types of projects likely to be prioritised under the Fast-track …
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Media release: Poverty and disadvantage fuel NZ’s rising rates of dementia
… is a factor fuelling Aotearoa New Zealand’s soaring rates of dementia. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, researchers reveal the risk of developing dementia is 60% higher for people living in the …
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Media release: Health vs profit: The growing influence of big business on NZ lawmaking
… A recent World Health Organization report on social determinants of health equity warns that commercial entities increasingly … preferences and prompting a legal challenge over lack of transparency. The repeal of world-leading tobacco endgame …
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Is Keytruda for advanced melanoma cost-effective? Applying the BODE3 rapid cost effectiveness calculator
… with advanced melanoma. The evidence base consists of trials published in the major journals: NEJM , Lancet and … delay (substantially) disease progression in about a third of patients. There is also about a third lower mortality … 3 Programme, we have harnessed the high quality linked health data in NZ to create some online calculators. One …
Briefing
Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?
… at Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred out by Google’s algorithm for … “Tobacco Control”. In this blog we briefly consider some of the research possibilities of this tool of relevance to public health. Using Google Street View (GSV) for research is …
Briefing
Bowel cancer screening – An interesting new US study and thoughts about the NZ situation
… a top US journal (JAMA). We discuss the cost-effectiveness of such screening and consider the current NZ context for bowel cancer screening. The US health system is renowned for doing things fully – many would … exception is colorectal cancer screening. A recent review of screening programmes , by public health practitioners, …
Briefing
New proposals to limit youth vaping from Labour: Do they go far enough?
… within existing legislation, and reducing the visibility of vaping products. In this briefing, we review vaping … estimate disguises troubling inequities: more than 20% of Y10 Māori students, and over 25% of Y10 young Māori … people who had not previously smoked. A recent Ministry of Health report pooling 2021 and 2022 NZHS data supports these …
Briefing
Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive
… a book later this year ( The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in New Zealand ; AUP) that looks in depth at the fascinating story of mortality decline in New Zealand. The path to low … by looking at some data just released by the Ministry of Health on trends since 1945 in cause-specific mortality. …
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