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  • Bowel cancer screening – An interesting new US study and thoughts about the NZ situation

    … In this blog post we look at a new modelling study on bowel cancer screening, published in … system in some age groups. More of this in a few months (after the work has been peer-reviewed and published). But … and using colonoscopy screening right up front – not just after a positive FOBT. Colonoscopy is not cheap at about US …
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  • Food poverty for NZ teens creating an achievement lag of up to four years

    … was up to four years behind their food-secure peers, even after accounting for socioeconomic deprivation. With the … biggest increase in food insecurity for children in NZ in a decade observed in 2022/23, we need more measures to … living in households where the food runs out sometimes or often jumped from 14.4% to 21.3%. For tamariki Māori, the …
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  • Five actions to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, with a focus on Auckland

    … Auckland returns to Covid-19 elimination or transitions to a suppression approach, there are critical actions that can … suggests ongoing transmission in the community. Covid-19 infection appears to be established in groups who experience … by such cases as a truck driver found to test positive after travelling to other parts of the North Island. Planning …
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  • NZ’s COVID-19 response compared to selected other jurisdictions: Australia, Taiwan and the United States

    … in NZ has involved comparing NZ’s COVID-19 response with a range of other jurisdictions, especially: Australia, Taiwan … too can probably be added to this list if the source of infection of one elderly woman is identified). Even the state … A feature of the US is that public health guidance is often delegated to states, which may then delegate to …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: A core measure in New Zealand’s endgame strategy

    … number of outlets selling tobacco, and the introduction of a Smokefree Generation (SFG) policy. In this blog, we briefly … by stopping the sale of tobacco products to people born after a specified date;[11, 14, 15] the NZ Bill sets that … does not allow sales of tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2000.[24] Furthermore, local policies are …
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  • Five Potential Enhancements of Covid-19 Outbreak Control in Aotearoa NZ

    … propose the following potential enhancements: (i) develop a robust system to allow for region-specific Alert Levels; … revealed by the Prime Minister yesterday indicates a relatively recent source of the current outbreak in … to help accelerate outbreak control. Indeed, spread of infection by essential workers has been a problem with the …
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  • Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls

    … In a just published study (and accompanying evaluation summary … began funding a vaccination programme against HPV infection in 2008 [1]. After various catch-up phases, vaccination has been routinely …
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  • World Ventil8 Day – How do our buildings measure up?

    … to raise awareness of the importance of ventilation as a crucial part of enabling health and wellbeing. Breathing clean air is so often ignored or poorly understood – and we usually only … 5 In addition, if someone in the room has a respiratory infection, a high CO 2 level indicates that you are more …
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  • Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame

    … Control , where we have estimated the future impacts of a range of proposed novel and substantive strategies that may … the reduction in smoking prevalence. These measures are often defined as ‘tobacco endgame strategies’ (4). Examples … of these benefits being accrued in the three decades after implementation (see Figure 2). While such an …
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  • Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact

    … be 21.4% for Māori and to 8.9% for non-Māori – compared to a projected 22.7% and 9.3% if this taxation programme had not … 2016. Prevalence reductions may be greater if we hit a ‘tipping point’ – our modelling necessarily uses … to a status quo wherein the taxation had not continued after January 2016) The news that NZ will at least continue …
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