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  • A new online calculator for estimating how much a society might spend on life-saving interventions

    … health interventions, while remaining cost-effective. For NZ, the amounts generated by this calculator vary greatly by age: NZ$ 1.2 million for an intervention to save the life of a child, NZ$ 0.7 million for a 50-year-old, and NZ$ 0.2 million for an 80-year-old, …
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  • Highlights of the World Conference on Tobacco or Health

    …   We start with a key highlight of this Conference for New Zealand being the Luther Terry award for Outstanding Community Service for Hon Dame Tariana Turia. This was a fitting recognition of …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … the 2025 goal. This blog asks if it is enough to aim just for smokefree or whether Te Tiriti o Waitangi demands we aim … in smoking rates still exist with the largest gap evident for women aged 15 to 24 years. In the 2015/16 NZ Health … of Health has adopted the position that vaping is useful for smokers who want to quit (2). It can be viewed as either …
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  • Running into Trouble: COVID-19 in Japan during the Tokyo Olympics

    … situation in Japan, as compared to NZ, and discuss lessons for nations considering hosting large events with … then declared a state of emergency on 7 April 2020 for seven prefectures, including Tokyo, but then extended the … and businesses that remained open were not penalised for their failure to comply. 7 While the lockdown guidelines …
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  • Shifting all isolation/quarantine facilities to a single air force base: The need for a critical analysis

    … In this blog the arguments for and against shifting all COVID-19 related … with economic recovery. There is therefore a need for an integrated health and economic analysis with the NZ … and NZ will regain its COVID-19 elimination status for community transmission in the coming months. This status …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … to eradicate COVID-19 from the country – we must also plan for other scenarios where thousands of New Zealanders are … including many urgently hospitalised. 1 Better resilience for our health system in the face of COVID-19 must include … of alcohol would make significant and valuable differences for hospital staff, medical centres and patients. Even with …
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  • Can CT screening for lung cancer in New Zealand be cost-effective?

    … There is now strong evidence that screening for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) … we discuss the uncertainties and suggest a way forward for New Zealand.   Lung cancer isn’t the most common cancer … men or women. But it is the most deadly cancer, accounting for almost 20% of all cancer deaths in New Zealand. Lung …
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  • Public health and Budget 2024

    … a recession. This situation results in reduced funding for health determinants, including health care, education, … widespread. When compared against GDP (to crudely account for population, prices and incomes), every broad area of … meaningful impact on health.  So what does the budget mean for the Public Health sector? Below, I lay out the context, …
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  • Might a ‘Coasean’ social contract mitigate overall societal harm from COVID-19?

    … maximising freedom from lock-downs and economic wellbeing for nearly everyone else. The social contract could take a range of forms, but one approach could be for a government to offer a period of extra payments to older … It is therefore critical that other strategies are planned for – including the novel mitigation strategy which is the …
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  • Seven decades of severe weather events in Aotearoa New Zealand: What are the human health impacts?

    … such as floods and storms, in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) for the past 70 years. Over this timeframe, there were 498 … February 2022, there were 498 severe weather events in NZ for the period 1950 to 2022 in NIWA’s Historic Weather Events … likely driven by a tightening of the inclusion criteria for severe weather events in the NIWA Catalogue in the 2010s …
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