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  • Five Strategic Approaches to Achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal

    … out five potential strategies for achieving this important health and equity goal and discuss their implementation. … poverty (to which tobacco use contributes) and eliminating health inequalities (tobacco use remains a major cause of … fee increases has also achieved outlet reduction in South Australia [14]. Even a zero-fee licence would be very useful …
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  • Might a ‘Coasean’ social contract mitigate overall societal harm from COVID-19?

    … with the option of opt out either with no payment or an insurance surcharge reflecting risk until either a vaccine … nature of the problem of mitigating the risk of harm to health, welfare and the economy from the COVID-19 pandemic. … payment and potentially be required to pay a risk-adjusted health surcharge. The aim is to improve the effectiveness of …
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  • About us

    … Our story The Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC) is dedicated to increasing the reach and impact of public health research, making it more accessible to the public and … intersection of Aotearoa New Zealand’s world-class public health research, public understanding, and evidence-informed …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Improving the cost, composition and availability of foods can save lives

    … of processed food. This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. … as the reformulation programmes implemented in the UK and Australia which aim to reduce the sodium, saturated fat and …
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  • Key findings on smoking and e-cigarette use prevalence and trends in the 2020/21 NZ Health Survey

    … New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data released in early December suggest … summarising key points from the 2018/19 and 2019/20 NZ Health Surveys (NZHS), a rolling survey conducted every year … details of the methods are available on the Ministry of Health website. The findings reveal a different picture from …
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  • NZ should prepare for a potentially severe global coronavirus pandemic

    … and institutional advantages in managing this major health and economic threat. Now is the time for maximum … and 49 deaths [6]). Following that pandemic, the World Health Organization met and concluded that the pandemic … thousand) means that it will have severe effects on global health. Strengths of the NZ response to date Firstly, NZ was …
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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … patient outcomes but also change ‘downstream costs’ in the health sector.  For example, chemotherapy may increase.  … including all downstream changes in cost and health gains?”  And for which cancers and which type of … most cursory of glances at where the money gets spent in health reveals that the majority of funds go to overnight …
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  • Ready or not? Pandemic preparedness index and implications for NZ

    … vulnerable to the persisting risk of pandemics. The Global Health Security (GHS) Index is one tool for finding out how … .  The world continues to face biological threats  Major health crises beyond the Covid-19 pandemic are almost certain … environment’ category: “While countries such as Iceland, Australia and New Zealand had the top 4 lowest CMRs …
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  • Low-cost heart-healthy bread for NZ

    … just published on optimising the design of bread for heart health. Using linear programming we found it possible to … commercially available breads in 15 countries from a heart health perspective, as well as being lower cost. Such bread designs could be promoted by health agencies and utilised in conjunction with a …
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  • Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study

    … a home-based exercise programme generated the greatest health gain and cost the least. This programme involves … (in year 2011) who participated in the programme, the health gains over the remainder of their lives would be … medication withdrawal may be cost-effective in Australia [ 3 ]). Improved alcohol control (eg, higher …
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