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New Vaping Bill: Some important progress but critical gaps remain
… and remove their product of choice: inexpensive single-use vapes. However, some of the recently released Bill’s … outside specialist vape retailers and online, and end the use of point-of-sale displays within general retailers, … ‘pod’ and ‘cartridge’ products favoured by adults who use vaping as an alternative to smoking. Ending sales of the …
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Major vaping reforms: Will they deliver on public health aims?
… who do not vape. The measures will also disallow the use of email-newsletters to promote these offers. Tobacco … or have recently quit found they were much less likely to use disposable vapes (See Appendix : Tables 1 and 2). … affect young people more, given the high proportion who use them. Although disposable vapes are inexpensive (often …
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Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking
… NZ has some key barriers to overcome to make the best use of that data – most importantly, data systems … known as IDI2 looking at how they can increase the use and improve the usability of the IDI. As users have seen … and respected. Conversely, NZ citizens expect good use to be made of their data to justify its collection. …
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Robust vaccine surveillance shows safety – we need to communicate this better
… picture of the safety of medicines (see Appendix 3 on the use of international collaboration for pharmacovigilance). … which far outweighs these risks for most people. In NZ, use of these vaccines is estimated to have saved 6,650 lives … of health science, drawing on a range of methods in active use across the world, including NZ. These systems are now …
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Artificially sweetened beverages: What does the latest evidence tell us on health benefits versus harm?
… NZ there are numerous artificial sweeteners approved for use in beverages, including aspartame (brand names … to sweeteners as ‘artificial sweeteners’, and we’ll mainly use this terminology throughout, noting this category may … associations between Low Energy Sweetener (LES use and body mass index (BMI, -0.002 kg/m 2 per year, 95% …
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The Covid-19 experience in Aotearoa New Zealand and other comparable high-income jurisdictions and implications for managing the next pandemic phase
… not fit the criteria for elimination either, but it did use lockdowns as a form of pandemic management, along with … requirements, transport/travel, testing, contact tracing, use of masks, and vaccine policies, with NZ recording some of … on the likely success factors (eg, higher booster use and higher mask use) for the other jurisdictions like …
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Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025
… in question was ‘HEETS’, a tobacco heat stick designed for use with the ‘IQOS’ ‘heat-not-burn’ device; the judgement … of tobacco and vaping products. [Note: For simplicity, we use ‘ECs’ here to describe all generations of vaping devices, … referral, and expert advice and support about purchase and use of ECs/e-liquids. Phased ending of sales of smoked …
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Do Aotearoa’s new vaping regulations go far enough?
… NZ Health survey data show that current (at least monthly) use of electronic cigarettes by 15 to 17 year olds increased … to limit the maximum nicotine strength allowed in single-use (disposable) vapes, though did not outline the new … [flavour] names ” and manufacturers will now need to use generic descriptors to indicate e-liquid flavours. While …
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Vaccination is often cost-effective but not (currently) HPV vaccination for boys in NZ
… of vaccination – which is often, but not always, a good use of limited health sector resources. Similar to many … improve NZ health sector confidence in making the best use of vaccination to reduce infectious disease burdens in …
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Money down the drain: The high cost of leaking water pipes
… improved funding of local government, as well as greater use of water metering with equity safeguards. Introduction … and safety of these systems – driving some people to use water filters or buy bottled water. Also, if leakage … of this). Local government: Councils need to expand the use of water metering where this is cost-effective. Meters …
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