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  • NZ’s Quitline Service is value-for-money: But how does it compare with other tobacco control actions in a league table?

    … study has reported large efficiency gains from greater use of online advertising for quitline services (5). The NZ … marketing. There could also be merit in increasing use of “by Māori, for Māori” media campaigns as per the … at 3% discounting) But what if the Government doesn’t use endgame strategies? While a rational government might opt …
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  • Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?

    … raises questions about how the wider uptake of e-cigarette use (known as “vaping”) will be managed. In this blog, we … Paper relating to the NZ situation suggests that “the use of e-cigarettes is prohibited in smoke-free places”, and … includes NZ) that they consider “Prohibiting by law the use of ENDS/ENNDS in indoor spaces or at least where smoking …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … 2025 Action Plan Discussion Document , and data on use of illicit tobacco products. Introduction and methods The … cigarettes underestimate their harmfulness. Extent of the use of illicit cigarettes and tobacco The most frequent … trade. However, enhanced monitoring of illicit product use and strengthened border surveillance and enforcement …
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  • Using the CovidCard to enhance protection from COVID-19 at the NZ border

    … announcements and cross-party support for the CovidCard’s use by border control workers and guests in quarantine and … more than 1 minute within 2 metres). The card does not use location data, has sophisticated data security features, … to obtain information on performance that could inform the use of this technology in the wider community (eg, perhaps in …
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  • Youth vaping addiction: How it happens and why it matters

    … vape every day. Nicotine causes minimal physical harm, but use may quickly lead to addiction. Physiological changes … cigarette or vape, and drives increasing frequency of use. 5 Cravings can become difficult to resist within a few … restlessness, depressed mood and insomnia when nicotine use stops. 4  Strong cravings and withdrawal symptoms make it …
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  • NZ’s smart use of big data: Employment & income impacts of selected health conditions

    … New Zealand is making rapid strides in the smart use of big data to provide better health information for … Such information could ultimately inform the best use of resources for disease prevention and treatment … work in chronic disease epidemiology. As well as the use of the integrated administrative data, we are also …
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  • What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective

    … virus, or do we allow high numbers of infections before we use lockdowns?), and the reproductive rate (known as the R0) … coverage increases and the year after borders open. We use Victoria as the case study, but the results are … on the year after Australia opens up, the scenarios we use are combinations of: 1) Our achieved vaccine coverage …
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  • Insights into health system costs of living and dying in New Zealand – New study

    … costs ). It raises interesting questions about the best use of taxpayer funds for preventing and treating ill health. … that spending in the last year of life may not be the best use of resources, it looks like New Zealand is not doing too … to be made at the end of life through the likes of wider use of advanced care plans .  Such personally-designed plans …
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  • NZ’s COVID-19 response compared to selected other jurisdictions: Australia, Taiwan and the United States

    … ; with slight differences from other sources that just use confirmed cases eg, WHO data). Characteristic / key … tracing methods (both digital and conventional) and use of isolation/quarantine methods which have been maintained to date. Taiwan has also very high mask use in public places. Other commentators have also discussed …
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  • New modelling on the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in NZ associated with arriving travellers

    … a package of non-quarantine measures. That is the combined use of a pre-flight PCR test of saliva, three subsequent PCR … in NZ), and various other interventions (such as mask use and contact tracing), would reduce this risk to 37% … control interventions in place other than mandatory mask use on all flights (and assuming unvaccinated populations)   …
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