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  • Aotearoa’s perinatal and maternal death rates remain inequitable and unjust

    … decrease in all-cause perinatal mortality over the years of 2006-2021 according to the Perinatal and Maternal … mortality for wāhine Māori, Pacific pregnant women and people and those living in higher deprivation. Some evidence … neonatal deaths (up to 27th day of life), and deaths of people who are pregnant or within 42 days of the end of …
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  • Vaping needs much tighter regulation as we approach Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Two new studies

    … may have on public health. The first estimates that use of modern vaping devices could be around a third as harmful … and health equity [5]. The Discussion Document outlines many important actions, including denicotinisation and … onwards) that compared levels of these biomarkers between people exclusively vaping and those exclusively smoking …
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  • Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?

    … reviews) on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of dietary counselling as a health intervention. Most studies … ie, high blood pressure, high lipid levels etc (eg, some people might prefer dietary counselling to starting on CVD … or cost-effective. (But we have some issues with how these interventions were classified in this review in …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … at two sets of values for decision-making: those informing how we make decisions (see Table 1) and those informing what … … Good decision-making processes … show respect for people and ensure procedural fairness…Where the reasons for … but what is different with a pandemic is that there can be many conflicts between our impulses to protect ourselves – to …
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  • Daily aspirin for preventing cancer and heart disease – where to from here in NZ?

    … gastric bleeding and one type of stroke). But for some people, the relative size of the benefit may still not be … and a more sophisticated one is needed that would consider many other issues (e.g., lower healthcare costs from disease … stages of recruitment for use of a polypill in a trial. How might NZ research funding agencies help? Research funders …
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  • “Action for Healthy Waterways”: some big ticket actions that the Government has neglected

    … has produced a valuable discussion document with many good ideas for improving the health of waterways in New … of waterways has important health and cultural impacts for people in Aotearoa/NZ [1]. Fortunately, the Ministry for the … nitrogen taxes on fertiliser in a Danish setting [6], and how a nitrogen tax (on fertiliser) compares with other …
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  • Protecting hapu māmā and newborn babies through immunisation during pregnancy in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … a safe, effective way of protecting hapū māmā (pregnant people) and pēpi (babies) against whooping cough (pertussis), … pregnancy and in early life. Despite being recommended for many years, fewer mothers receive pertussis (48% in 2020) and … to be immunised themselves. 1  This briefing outlines how we are performing in equitable maternal immunisation …
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  • Clean ups are not enough: Government policy incoherent on climate change

    … Tairāwhiti and Hawkes Bay left hundreds of homes damaged, many severely. 1 The Minister for Emergency Management, Mark … in the aftermath of the most recent storm, “I don’t know how we’re going to get through this one, to be honest. We are … obvious. For example, intense storm events not only impact people’s health and risk lives, but the damage they cause is …
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  • Open data, transparency and power – role of the Virtual Health Information Network

    … leadership on data sharing. In this blog we describe some of the opportunities and the challenges in this new data environment. We focus on how the Virtual Health Information Network (VHIN) can … large and growing research database containing data about people and households. It holds over 166 billion ‘facts’ and …
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  • A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development

    … and community housing. Māori are highly urbanised and face many systemic barriers to home ownership and private rental. … Consequently Māori make up a significant proportion of public housing tenants. Developing and managing housing … Housing and urban Infrastructure’s role in wellbeing All people have common wellbeing needs, yet wellbeing is shaped …
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