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  • New report shows how regional plans could transform freshwater quality

    … and improving freshwater quality identified by a new report on the failure to protect high-country lakes … councillors and council staff. Each failure points to a solution The Report’s summary reads as a list of regulatory … of nitrogen to the lakes using Overseer software, which after some years of criticism was found to be inappropriate …
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  • Alcohol and suicide: The facts

    … Summary Alcohol use often exacerbates mental health problems and is a well-known risk factor for suicide. Health experts are … is not an effective coping mechanism Reaching for a drink after a hard day is a socially sanctioned coping mechanism, …
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  • Highly variable cost-effectiveness with disease characteristics and age: Herceptin as a Case Study

    … drug Herceptin. It is about Herceptin in that we report on a study we just published in the journal PLoS Medicine about … precision medicine, our country’s funding decisions are often blunt and imprecise, some may even say wasteful. We … benefit eg, all New Zealanders get emergency care after an injury – no matter age or other pre-existing health …
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  • Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?

    … and cost-effectiveness of dietary counselling as a health intervention. Most studies suggest that dietary … However, governments, policy-makers and the public are often interested in counselling interventions, necessitating … at study start and 1 hour at follow-up home visits after 6 weeks of intervention, with support through cell …
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  • Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?

    … The views in this blog are expanded in greater depth in a book Dr Toomath is launching in Auckland and Wellington … Chief Science Advisor (and obesity expert), said in a recent speech that over his life time he has lost about … third category is ‘time-inconsistent preferences’, which often result in satisfying short-term goals over longer term …
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  • Thoughts on NZ Adopting an Aussie Community Health Programme … and Forthcoming Nutrition Policy Events

    … as “Healthy Families New Zealand”. This blog post gives a high level overview of this initiative and anticipates a series of four forthcoming blog posts here at Public Health … Expert. The Australian programme has healthy nutrition as a large focus, but it also extends to include alcohol, …
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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … that sugar should be less than 10% of total energy intake a day, but have gone further to state that 5% would be better … New Zealanders currently consume around about 27 teaspoons a day of sugar (ie, median = 107 grams ), or more than 20% of total energy intake. So this is a challenging target. Sobering, even, when you consider that …
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  • Key findings in the 2021/22 NZ Health Survey: Continued rapid falls in smoking prevalence and increases in vaping

    … the NZ Health Survey (NZHS). Previous analyses revealed a steady but unspectacular decrease in smoking prevalence … smoking daily and 179,000 fewer smoking monthly or more often, and is similar to the estimated reductions in numbers … with 10.4% in quintile 5 (up from 5.2% in 2019/20). After adjustment for age, gender and ethnic group, …
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  • Urgent measures needed to allow the safe re-opening of Auckland schools

    … the range of urgent measures that are needed to facilitate a safe return to schools in Auckland and other regions of the … majority of young children with COVID-19 experience only mild symptoms. Since the beginning of the Delta outbreak in … and other extra-curricular activities, and before and after school care programmes (OSCAR). 7. Guidance regarding …
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  • Potential health co-benefits from eradicating rats, stoats and possums in NZ towns and cities

    … possums in New Zealand, seems increasingly feasible with a new national 2050 goal and action at the city level eg, … resilience measure (eg, in Wellington), but such water is often of poor microbiological quality in NZ with some of the … Although predator-prey relationships are complex and often not well understood (24), the eradication of rats and …
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