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“Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques
… endorses the Government’s goal of reducing smoked tobacco use to minimal levels by 2025, and defines this goal as less … have quit smoking altogether instead adopt long-term ‘dual use’ of e-cigarettes and smoked tobacco products. Results in … more restricted increase in availability, it may maximise use of e-cigarettes by smokers as an aid quitting or as …
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Highlights of the World Conference on Tobacco or Health
… Smokefree 2025 goal in New Zealand and to ensure that we use the treaty to support such progress. The current (2014) … and at worst likely to prolong and reinforce tobacco use and nicotine addiction in society, and create new long … nicotine delivery devices (ANDs) may be a better term to use than e-cigarettes and ENDs; The independent e-cigarette …
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Promoting physical activity through the prescription of smartphone apps in primary care: Likely to produce health gains and cost-savings
… risk for such conditions [5, 6]. In recent years, the use of mobile health (mHealth) tools for increasing physical activity has risen [7, 8], and the widespread use of mobile phones makes mHealth interventions scalable to … activity. Smartphone apps are generally considered easy to use and could enhance physical activity interventions through …
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Human health impacts of plastic exposure – an evolving evidence base
… an assumption that underpins their near ubiquitous use. Increasingly, this assumption is challenged. Risks to … products or be released from plastic items during use, inevitably resulting in inhalation and ingestion, 13 … helpful, system-wide change is required to reduce plastic use and remove plastic from the environment. Our growing …
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Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?
… import these products from overseas websites for personal use, but use is believed to be rare. Oral tobacco products are … Restrictions on advertising, labelling, and sale of oral use products (1) A person must not publish a regulated …
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Long COVID: Century-old Lessons We Still Have Not Learned
… to the core preventive measures of: vaccination, mask use inside public places, and physical distancing where … to protect others from one’s own germs” 1 . In Japan, mask use was compulsory for some, such as the armed forces and … adults, aged ≥18 years, within a subset of facilities that use Cerner EHRs who received a diagnosis of COVID-19 or a …
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Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action
… not get infected on incoming flights (given we know mask use can’t be perfect on these flights as people will be … no community transmission); (ii) eliminate shared space use until at least the first test returns a negative result … (ie, exercising in rooms only); (iii) eliminate shared use of smoking areas (where people obviously can’t use masks …
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“Why not just ban it?” Is it time to consider ending tobacco sales?
… on the production (other than tobacco grown for personal use), importation and sale of tobacco products, whilst not criminalising the use of tobacco. The purpose of such a measure would be to … agreed with a ban on tobacco sales in 10 years time (1); Use of tobacco among politicians, teachers, health …
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Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’
… the current inquiry focused on forestry slash and land use. Some of the potential policy implications for preventing … (for resilient infrastructure and appropriate land use), managed retreat from vulnerable areas, eliminating … this appears to be on the role of forestry slash and land use in compounding the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle. This is …
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How taking an evidence-informed approach can be used to prioritise interventions: The example of cardiovascular disease
… Summary New governments are fortunate in being able to use modern techniques to help them take evidence-informed … of public health interventions. In this Briefing we use the example of interventions to prevent cardiovascular … is Pharmac. But we have seen with the last government the use of evidence 10 11 to inform the progressive 2022 law to …
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