Thursday, 13 May 2021, 3:55 pm
E-cigarettes made their debut in the early 2000s as a
potential cessation device or an alternative to cigarette
products. Almost twenty years later, the long term effects
of e-cigarettes are still unknown.
In 2011, the New
Zealand Government set a goal to be Smoke-free by 2025 and
just last month it released a discussion document on
Proposals For A Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan.
Nancy Loucas, co-director of Aotearoa Vapers Community
Advocacy (AVCA), says the plan acknowledges vaping, but it
fails to support it as a key factor to achieving a
smoke-free nation.
“There’s a lot of
talk about tougher rules and regulations for tobacco, but to
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Living away from community and country, Aboriginal families of children with severe burns also face critical financial stress to cover the associated costs of health care and treatment, a new study shows.
An Australian study, led by Flinders researchers Dr Courtney Ryder and Associate Professor Tamara Mackean, found feelings of crisis were common in Aboriginal families with children suffering severe burns, with one family reporting skipping meals and others selling assets to reduce costs while in hospital.
The economic hardship was found to be worse in families who live in rural areas - some households travelling more than five hours for treatment, creating undue financial strain.
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A new study by researchers at The University of Western Australia examining the growth in public health graduates and courses in Australia has found a large rise in students graduating with public health qualifications in Australia over the past two decades.
The study, published today in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, called for greater investment in public health to provide job opportunities commensurate with the growth in capacity.
Co-author Dr Ian Li, from UWA’s School of Population and Global Health, said Australia had fared comparably well internationally in their public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nicholas Patrick Taylor and Peter Miller
February 11, 2021
The ‘floor price’ for alcohol introduced by the Northern Territory in 2018 reduced the consumption of cask wine by half, without significantly impacting sales of other types of alcohol, according to our new analysis of the policy’s effectiveness.
On October 1, 2018, the NT introduced a minimum price of $1.30 per unit (equivalent to 10 grams of pure alcohol or one standard drink) on alcohol, in a bid to tackle problem drinking.
The price was chosen to target cheap wines that have historically been an issue throughout the NT, while not influencing other liquor types.
In Australia, an estimated 75% of all alcohol is consumed by the top 20% of its heaviest drinkers a group the alcohol industry depends on and actively targets, labelling them as super consumers.