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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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Weight control belief and its impact on the effectiveness of tobacco control policies on quit attempts: Findings from the US, Canada, the UK and Australia
posted by WM Admin on 2015-02-03 08:52:35.843
This longitudinal study uses data from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project in the USA, Canada, the UK and…
International Literature
It is better to be a fat ex-smoker than a thin smoker: Findings from the 1997–2004 National Health Interview Survey−National Death Index linkage study
posted by WM Admin on 2014-08-15 08:51:31.179
The authors compared the risk of all-cause mortality and mortality from all cancers combined, lung cancer, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases…
NZ Literature Abstract
Could community pharmacies help to improve youth health? Service availability and views of pharmacy personnel in New Zealand
posted by WM Admin on 2014-08-22 11:50:35.233
The authors sent surveys to 500 randomly selected community pharmacies in New Zealand to investigate the availability of youth-relevant community…
Research Review
Māori Health Review 50
posted by WM Admin on 2014-06-02 09:48:16.643
In the latest issue (attached below): Sport-related concussions: high economic costs Poor adherence to allopurinol therapy in NZ HPV vaccination…
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- Design and conduct of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial to enhance smoking cessation outcomes with exercise: The Fit2Quit study
- Body-mass index and cancer mortality in the Asia-Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration: Pooled analyses of 424,519 participants
- Tale of two churches: Differential impact of a church-based diabetes control programme among Pacific Islands people in New Zealand.
- Could community pharmacies help to improve youth health? Service availability and views of pharmacy personnel in New Zealand
- The effects of exercise and nicotine replacement therapy on smoking rates in women
International Literature
- Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2012 (OECD)
- It is better to be a fat ex-smoker than a thin smoker: Findings from the 1997–2004 National Health Interview Survey−National Death Index linkage study
- Quantitative relationship between body weight gain in adulthood and incident type 2 diabetes: A meta-analysis
- Weight gain in smokers after quitting cigarettes: Meta-analysis
- Weight control belief and its impact on the effectiveness of tobacco control policies on quit attempts: Findings from the US, Canada, the UK and Australia
