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  • Does healthy food really cost more?

    … consumption of less healthy foods. However, there seems to be little consensus on how best to measure price – per … and thus provides best value for money? Some shoppers will be looking for food to fill their families at the lowest … are cheap and filling. A very cheap, healthy menu can be constructed but a diet with lots of cabbage, lentils and …
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  • Increasing whooping cough cases put pēpi at risk. What can be done about it?

    … pertussis immunisation protects pēpi before they can be immunised themselves. It has an excellent safety profile … antenatal immunisation system. This system should be centred on equity and Te Tiriti obligations to monitor and … about immunisation. Although some women/people may be adequately informed about immunisation by their healthcare …
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  • Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?

    … by the bacteria Helicobacter pylori in the stomach, may be a cost-effective way to reduce the stomach cancer burden … improvements remain slow and stomach cancer continues to be more common among Māori and Pacific peoples (2) (Figure 1) … health services, and to do so, H. pylori screening should be assessed against a number of different criteria …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … on experience from Oregon USA, that assisted dying would be predominantly taken up by a small number of mostly … to Make a Claim b. the health practitioner must not: i. be providing the assisted dying services in their capacity as an employee of a District Health Board; ii. be entitled to have the claim satisfied (whether directly or …
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  • Worth its weight: Building insulation in New Zealand

    … has important environmental co-benefits that should not be ignored when looking at the cost-benefit ratios of any … all add up so that at a national level the country might be spared the need for the ongoing operation of coal-hungry … greenhouse gas emissions reductions (of up to 49%) can be achieved from improving energy efficiency, and they want …
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  • Good news on declining smoking rates, especially for Māori. Is it credible? What next?

    … on the Statistics NZ website), and asks what else could be done to accelerate progress towards a smokefree nation.   … actually smoke regularly, then the true prevalence would be a bit higher at 17%. Another issue is the key results … data were not good news, with Māori rates not changing – be it with wide confidence intervals ie,  37.5% in 2006/07 …
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  • Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them?

    … XBB.1.5 .  It is effective against JN.1 26 and likely to be effective against its dominant  subvariants, KP.2 and KP.3 … suit. 35 For NZ to ensure that vaccines continue to be effective against emerging variants, we need ESR’s … second booster. Benefits of vaccination are likely to be greatest in people at highest risk of severe outcomes. A …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … measures ultimately deployed. These turned out to be border closure and comprehensive managed isolation. In … criteria for when border closure for pandemics might be economically rational (Boyd 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). We … at the Ministry of Health with a research proposal only to be told that border closure in a pandemic would never be a …
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  • How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    … immunity” with the hope that the epidemic in the UK will be controlled. In New Zealand, given that we continue to be able to control cases at the border and do not end up with endemic disease, our priorities need to be different. We have started with vaccinating border workers …
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  • Risk proportionate regulation of nicotine and tobacco products: More rhetoric than reality

    … Aotearoa, agrees that nicotine and tobacco products should be regulated proportionate to the harm that they cause. … analyses how smoked tobacco and vaping products could be regulated with a risk proportionate approach in Aotearoa … groups agree smoked tobacco and vaping products should be subject  to risk proportionate regulation. 1, 2   …
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