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The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand’s health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
Important note: This site is no longer being actively maintained and is presented here as an online archive. While it still contains a wealth of useful information, visitors who want to receive the latest health information should register to receive the fortnightly email Digest. This will link you directly to articles of interest in the key areas covered by this site. You can register for the Digest here.
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Changes in quitline caller characteristics during a U.S. national tobacco education campaign (Tips From Former Smokers)
posted by WM Admin on 2015-01-09 09:30:06.772
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the first federally-funded national tobacco education campaign, “Tips From Former Smokers” (Tips),…
International Literature
Variations in state use of antitobacco message themes predict youth smoking prevalence in the USA, 1999–2005
posted by WM Admin on 2014-12-31 10:10:21.737
In this study, the authors tested relationships between the volume of advertisements employed in state antismoking campaigns, and particularly the…
International Literature
Tobacco Stops with Me campaign contributes to changing social norms for tobacco (U.S.)
posted by WM Admin on 2014-12-29 12:11:25.023
A multiphase health communications campaign in Oklahoma highlighted how tobacco use negatively impacts individuals whether they use tobacco or not.…
NZ Literature Abstract
Children’s interpretation of the Crayons TVCs: Research undertaken for Quitline
posted by WM Admin on 2015-01-29 08:34:10.588
Quiltine recently developed a new series of television commercials (TVCs) that encourge quitting by showing the negative impact that adults…
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- Newspaper coverage of tobacco control in New Zealand
- Do New Zealand Māori and Pacific ‘walk the talk’ when it comes to stopping smoking? A qualitative study of motivation to quit
- Parental attitudes towards the uptake of smoking by children
- Do parents have any influence over how young people appraise tobacco images in the media?
- Crossing the smoking divide for young adults: Expressions of stigma and identity among smokers and nonsmokers
International Literature
- Effect of the first federally funded US antismoking national media campaign (Tips From Former Smokers)
- A cost-effectiveness analysis of online, radio and print tobacco control advertisements targeting 25–39 year-old males (Australia)
- Characterizing tobacco control mass media campaigns in England
- Evaluation of a mass media campaign promoting using help to quit smoking
- Time series analysis of the impact of tobacco control policies on smoking prevalence among Australian adults, 2001–2011
