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Last Publication Date: 1 Sep 2011
The purpose of this environmental scan, carried out by the New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZGG), is to provide examples of important health literacy processes and initiatives…
Exposure to tobacco and smoking may influence young people's perception of smoking and how common it is to smoke. To understand whether young people see smoking…
Sapere Research Group was commissioned by ALAC to estimate the short-term health care cost savings from the use of alcohol brief interventions (BIs) in general practice…
Last Publication Date: 1 Aug 2011
In its Fifth Report to the Minister of Health (2009), the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee (CYMRC) noted that systems to review non-traffic deaths are…
In 2010, the top mentioned things that prompted quitting among those who had tried or had quit in the past year were health-related reasons (43%), because…
In 2010, around four in 10 (42%) young people thought it would definitely be difficult to quit smoking once someone has started, and around four in…
In 2010, around seven in 10 (69%) young people thought they definitely could not get cigarettes/tobacco from anyone in their family/whānau or from their home if…
In 2010, around eight in 10 (84%) young people agreed that their parents would be upset if they were caught smoking cigarettes/tobacco. Around six in 10…
A survey of off-licence premises in the North Shore City Council (NSCC) region and Hibiscus Coast (within Rodney District Council [RDC] boundaries) took place in 2009/2010.…
In 2010, the majority (90%) of parents/caregivers of children aged five to 16 thought that they had influence over whether their child starts to smoke or…