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  • Strong public support for healthy food policies in Aotearoa

    … New Zealanders support government intervention to reduce the cost of healthy food. Additionally, 73% back free healthy … and affordability of healthy food. Such policies are supported by evidence 2 and have worked overseas. … in recognition of the public support for such policies. What is new in this Briefing? New survey research shows a …
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  • More evidence that elimination is the best COVID-19 control strategy for health and the economy

    … is needed, before we can be really certain about the relative benefits and costs of different COVID-19 control … context.   Image sourced from Institut économique Molinari What does this new European Report find? The key finding of … -35%). The Report also makes several recommendations which are mainly from the perspective of how the Report’s findings …
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  • Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?

    … we consider recent literature (particularly reviews) on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of dietary … that dietary counselling is effective though the benefits are typically modest and short-term. The literature on … effective and cost-effective intervention [1]) – but what about dietary counselling? What does the most recent …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 1)

    … Shaw and Associate Professor Diana Sarfati consider the pros and cons of breast cancer screening, in light of the … possibility that the benefits of breast cancer screening are (much) less than previously thought due to over-detection … screening (early detection) is now no longer relevant? 3. What is the amount of over-diagnosis (that is, the extra …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could making tobacco products available only through community pharmacies help us get there?

    … In this blog we discuss the arguments for and against one of the proposals included … after the number of retail outlets selling these products are greatly reduced, and sales are no longer allowed in … are made available through community pharmacies. So what are the potential advantages and disadvantages of such …
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  • What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective

    … Blog syndicated with permission from “The Pursuit” at Melbourne University, Australia As Australia … virus modelling provides scenarios that can help us decide what’s the right risk to tolerate.   As Australia inches up  … at it. Vaccination coverage is very important, but so too are a number of other factors; the expected number of …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … key findings from a modelling study where we estimated the impact that denicotinising smoked tobacco products could … A policy requiring that all smoked tobacco products are virtually nicotine free is one of the key proposals included in the Smokefree 2025 Action …
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  • COVID-19 and Māori health – when equity is more than a word

    … Māori academics, researchers and health professionals, we are extremely concerned about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our whānau and … and intended to be used to prioritise which person gets what resource. These approaches often reflect judgements …
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  • Politicians in Aotearoa NZ live longer than other Kiwis and the gap keeps widening

    … A just published study examined the lifespan of politicians in 11 high-income democratic … In some of the studied countries, relative inequalities “are at the greatest level in over 150 years”, with the US … Politicians and General Populace in 11 Select Nations What may account for politicians living longer? One of the …
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  • Stubbing out democracy: no Government mandate for smokefree repeal

    … Summary The new coalition government has announced its intention to … organisations and health and smokefree policy experts are being ignored, in contrast to those of retailers who … evidence suggests none of their arguments hold water? And what of other stakeholders? To date, the government has …
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