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Website: Health Promotion Agency
Email: enquiries@hpa.org.nz
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2013
Participants in the 2012 Youth Insights Survey (YIS) were asked about whether they wanted to stop smoking, whether they had tried to quit in the past…
A comprehensive set of measures is needed to reduce smoking prevalence and meet the Government’s goal of making New Zealand a smokefree nation by 2025. One…
Access to tobacco is recognised as one of the environmental risk factors for young people taking up smoking. Participants in the Health Promotion Agency’s (HPA’s) Youth…
Estimates of the 2000/02 burden of death and disability due to alcohol consumption in New Zealanders have been used widely by researchers and policymakers. In the…
In 2012, the U.S. Surgeon General concluded that young people’s exposure to smoking depictions in movies can cause smoking initiation. Participants in the 2012 Youth Insights…
The Health and Lifestyles Survey (HLS) is a biennial monitor of the health behaviour and attitudes of New Zealand adults aged 15 years and over, and…
Encouraging smokers to quit is one of the six national health targets. To understand the level of quitting activities and the use of different cessation aids,…
Making a recent quit attempt is one of the factors that predicts further quit attempts. However, little is known whether or not making a recent quit…
In New Zealand, a third of people who have ever tried alcohol report having had their first drink when they were 14-years-old or younger. It is,…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jun 2012
The specific objectives of this feasibility study were to examine: The availability and robustness of data and information to assess alcohol-related issues in the Queenstown Lakes…
