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  • The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill – a chance to submit on pivotal legislation for health in Aotearoa

    … planning and strategy documents. The aim of this blog is to introduce some key aspects of the Bill and to strongly … with a closing date of 9 December 2021. This is an important opportunity for everyone with an interest in … that will affect health outcomes and health equity? Next steps The Bill is being considered by a special committee, …
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  • Lessons from Canada for NZ: Carbon, Cycling, Tobacco, Nutrition and Cannabis

    … potential lessons for NZ in the domains of: (i) responding to climate change; (ii) supporting cycling; (iii) tobacco … strange hybrid structure and exclusion of the critically important agricultural sector [3-6]. 2) Support for active … tobacco control relative to other high-income countries. But even though it has a Smokefree 2025 goal, NZ is still …
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  • Risk proportionate regulation of nicotine and tobacco products: More rhetoric than reality

    … Summary The Government, and almost everyone considering how to achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa, agrees that nicotine and … industry and its  allies . Despite this shared view, proposals on how to achieve risk-proportionate regulation … Government in 2011, took the latter approach and aimed to reduce smoking prevalence among all population groups and …
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  • Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls

    … for girls is clearly a “good value-for-money” way to protect health – even at the modest 47% coverage. Because … country (sexual health, family planning and student and youth health clinics), report a declining number of first … areas – so HPV vaccination is currently helping to reduce health inequalities. We also modelled the …
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  • Digesting things further: High dietary salt intakes are almost certainly problematic

    … post on dietary salt and health , particularly with regard to a new large prospective study (the PURE Study). This … to continue taking a range of evidence-based actions to reduce the hazard of high salt intakes. Again however we … as possible, but (as best we can tell) probably not as important as the above reverse causation concern. …
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  • Public health response to report on potential risk of nitrate from drinking water

    … our diet from water and food. The report comes in response to emerging epidemiological evidence observing nitrate in … limitations in the report and highlight where there are important knowledge gaps that need addressing by future … increase nitrosation and fruit and vegetables which can reduce it). The interplay of these factors determines the …
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  • Has the time come for a register of AI systems used by government agencies?

    … for AI implementation, highlighting the citizens' right to know where AI is being used and how well it performs.  … analogous to the ‘precision medicine’ of clinical care. 5 But less obviously, AI is also changing the social and … in NZ.  The importance of evaluating AI systems An important focus for all applications of AI is evaluation. To …
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  • Monitoring and forecasting the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand including the successful impact of the lockdown

    … In this blog, we introduce our modelling approach to estimating the transmissibility of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, … The actual transmissibility is usually not constant but varies over time in response to such things as an influx … can be used to quantify R, which in turn can provide important insights into the significance of the outbreak. In …
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  • Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: Five key ways to reduce the massive health and social costs

    … at $15.6 billion. Fortunately there are many ways to reduce air pollution and we discuss five key ones in this … vehicles (17%), and windblown dust (8%). The even more important air pollutant, NO 2 , is estimated to cost the …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … were known, yet action was scant, remains difficult to comprehend. Although somewhat perversely, we even knew we … Psychological research has shown that these kinds of rare but devastating events are exactly the ones humans tend to … Public sector departments must self-critique Perhaps more important than looking outward is looking inward. Governments …
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