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  • Advance Care Planning – good for patient care and better use of health dollars?

    … infection. When I asked her if she wanted that she said no. The antibiotics were stopped and she died a day later. No one at the hospital had been able to have the conversation …
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  • Is Euthanasia a health priority for New Zealand at present?

    … service with higher opportunity cost to the State, but no patient fee. It is unlikely that a fully publicly funded … be available to provide services under this Act. There is no requirement in the Act that DHBs provide these services … it. A lot of effort has already gone into this debate. No matter what the outcome, the opposing sides are both …
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  • New Vaping Bill: Some important progress but critical gaps remain

    … by opening just before the deadline. We recommend that no vaping product retailer (including existing retailers) may … given they pose more physical harms. Currently, there are no restrictions on the retail sale of cigarettes and tobacco; … Environments and Regulated Products Amendment Bill (No 2)) are open until 11.59 pm, Friday 27th 2024.  What this …
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  • Why don’t we make rental housing safer?

    … burden on a tenant to know the law in a tribunal with no lawyers, it also illustrates the need for a comprehensive … equitable approach to settling injury claims through a no-fault universal insurance scheme, the removal of …
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  • The race to be the first place in Aotearoa to be smokefree

    … at national level appears to have stalled. There is no articulated commitment to further tobacco tax increases … Society to 17 tobacco free retailers, who have chosen to no longer sell tobacco, and 10 cafés with smokefree outdoor …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 1)

    … that any advantage of screening (early detection) is now no longer relevant? 3. What is the amount of over-diagnosis … be an almost unsolvable problem – at this point there is no obvious piece of evidence that will resolve these issues …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques

    … colonisation. This goal envisages a society where people no longer suffer the health, social, economic and cultural … for smokers who continue to smoke. We agree there is no place for approaches that deliberately marginalise or …
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  • Optimising the effects of plain packaging for tobacco – making Quitline information more salient

    … tobacco industry arguments that plain packaging will have no effect on smoking prevalence. Early findings from … accustomed to the warning images used, these labels may no longer capture attention as effectively. Because many quit …
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  • A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data

    … variation within groups.) In contrast, however, there is no evidence of social class gradients from studies on … The first study of 259 men on the electoral rolls found no substantive lifespan differences between the high and low …
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  • The science is certain: masks work. Policy and practice must support their use

    … including novel pandemic viruses for which there is no test, treatment, or vaccine. When community infection … The public should know that any mask may be better than no mask, but they should also be informed that mask quality … Mask quality matters. While any mask is better than no mask, respirators are significantly more effective than …
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