Better Help for Smokers to Quit
The Better Help for Smokers to Quit health target is designed to ensure health professionals, especially doctors, nurses and midwifes, routinely screen for tobacco use and then to offer smokers help to quit. The health target has been split to cover the following areas:
Secondary - 95 percent of patients who smoke and are seen by a health practitioner in public hospitals are offered brief advice and support to quit smoking
Primary Care - 90 percent of patients who smoke and are seen by a health practitioner in primary care are offered brief advice and support to quit smoking
Maternity - 90 percent of pregnant women who identify as smokers at the time of confirmation of pregnancy in general practice or booking with Lead Maternity Carer are offered advice and support to quit.
The Better Help for Smokers to Quit health target is designed to ensure health professionals, especially doctors, nurses and midwifes, routinely screen for tobacco use and then to offer smokers help to quit. The health target has been split to cover the following areas:
Secondary - 95 percent of patients who smoke and are seen by a health practitioner in public hospitals are offered brief advice and support to quit smoking
Primary Care - 90 percent of patients who smoke and are seen by a health practitioner in primary care are offered brief advice and support to quit smoking
Maternity - 90 percent of pregnant women who identify as smokers at the time of confirmation of pregnancy in general practice or booking with Lead Maternity Carer are offered advice and support to quit.
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- Health Promotion Forum Symposium 2013: A Generation From Now (Wellington)
- International Conference on Public Health Priorities in the 21st Century: The Endgame for Tobacco (India)
- Public Health Association of New Zealand Conference (New Plymouth)
- Cutting Edge 2013
- 2013 Oceania Tobacco Control Conference
Documents
- Primary care health targets – 2012/13 quarter three – results summary
- Tobacco Control Policy Statement (New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine)
- Report from the 19th Society for Research of Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Conference
- Health targets – 2012/13 quarter three – results summary
- Statement of Intent 2013 to 2016: Ministry of Health
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Young adults' responses to tobacco pictorial warning labels within a symbolic consumption framework
- Screening for cardiovascular disease: A comparison of Maori and non-Maori risk profiles
- Should anti-tobacco media messages be culturally targeted for Indigenous populations? A systematic review and narrative synthesis
- The contributions of risk factor trends to cardiometabolic mortality decline in 26 industrialized countries
- The distribution of household crowding in New Zealand: An analysis based on 1991 to 2006 Census data
International Literature
- Is a cancer diagnosis a trigger for health behaviour change? Findings from a prospective, population-based study (England)
- Childhood and adult secondhand smoke and type 2 diabetes in women (France)
- A systematic review of the relationships between craving and smoking cessation
- Effectiveness of tobacco use cessation interventions delivered by pharmacy personnel: A systematic review
- The cost—effectiveness of call-back counselling for smoking cessation (Australia)
Case Studies
- Consumer-clinician programme first-of-its-kind
- Early results suggest Whanganui open-access, walk-in 'Quit Clinics' prove very effective
- Early evalution of pilot initiatives shows strong promise for General Practice support for people to quit smoking
- Training-Led Smoking Cessation Strategy Reaps Rewards for Wairarapa
- PHO-based Smokefree Coordinator Workforce an Effective Strategy for Waitemata DHB
Discussion
- Health targets – 2012/13 quarter three – results summary
- Waitemata residents among the healthiest in New Zealand
- Text messaging and the health target
- Reorienting the New Zealand health care system to meet the challenge of long-term conditions in a fiscally constrained environment
- List of smoking cessation providers