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Surviving winter: NZ’s journey through 145 years of seasonal survival – New study
… was a favourable decline in winter excess deaths from 7.9% of annual deaths in the 1920s, down to 4.5% in the 2010s … support continuing efforts to investigate the public health benefits of improving housing standards and reducing seasonal …
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Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey
… vaping according to the latest data from the New Zealand Health Survey released this month. The increase in recent … can be highly addictive. Despite strengthened regulation of vaping products (see Appendix ) recent rapid increases in … since 2015/16 except in the 2016/17 survey. Full details of the methods and a methodology report are available on the …
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Evidence for free school lunches: Are they worth investing in?
… authors by request. Evaluation findings The summary table of evaluation criteria and provisional assessments is shown. … papers for the programme. 2,3 Preliminary assessments of Value for Investment for Ka Ora, Ka Ako 1. Effectiveness … the programme. 4 Furthermore, lunches meet Ministry of Health nutritional guidelines and provide more than 33% of …
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Media release: Money down the drain - The high cost of leaking water pipes
… Aotearoa New Zealand could be costing the country upwards of $122 million a year according to public health researchers. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre , University of Otago researchers calculate the financial value of water …
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Fighting cold, damp housing – a big tick for Warmer Kiwi programme
… in Aotearoa. The programme will also be lowering the risk of respiratory disease caused by our damp, cold houses. … Our Warmer Kiwis Study team worked to determine if the health and wellbeing of people in households improve when they their homes are …
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Media release: NZ could eliminate the deadly meningococcal disease
… disease experts. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, University of Otago epidemiologist and Associate Professor Amanda … and colleagues look at how NZ could be permanently free of this disease and its significant risk of death and …
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Media release: Youth vaping -The implications of addiction
… negative impacts on their wellbeing, warn public health and addiction experts. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, University of Otago ASPIRE Network researchers and a psychiatrist … who vape, including anxiety and mood disorders. The number of young people vaping is higher in New Zealand than in …
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Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact
… NZ Government announced it would continue it’s programme of yearly 10% tobacco tax increases for the years 2017 to … model, we project that with these additional four years of tax increases smoking prevalence in 2020 will be 21.4% for … and reduce smoking rates – while benefiting population health and generating savings on health care spending (1-3). …
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Charting our way back to normal
… Trade-offs, allows people to weigh the costs and benefits of different policy responses as Australia rolls out vaccines … to estimate infection rates as well as the different health losses and gains across hundreds of scenarios during the vaccine rollout as a way to road test …
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Vaping prevalence and trends: Important findings from 2023-24 NZ Health Survey
… Summary New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2023/2024 have been released. … and people living in neighbourhoods with higher levels of deprivation. The findings call for detailed ongoing … the NZHS data explorer provided data on sole and dual use of vapes and cigarettes (Figure 2). Increases in vaping have …
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