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

    … current NZ context for bowel cancer screening.   The US health system is renowned for doing things fully – many would … A recent review of screening programmes , by public health practitioners, cast out the majority of screening programmes we embark upon in health as of marginal benefit and/or cost-effectiveness. The …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand's fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care

    … deaths. This new wave of infection is an opportunity for health authorities to remind New Zealanders about the … of Covid-19 . These systems were established to provide information to support prevention and control of this … we present surveillance data provided by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Institute for Environmental Science and …
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  • Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?

    … We have just published research on the health gains and cost-savings from various legally mandated … endgame goals. Many studies in the ‘neighbourhoods and health’ research stream have estimated the health effects of access to features of the built …
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  • Mortality declines in Aotearoa NZ during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic

    … of the Covid-19 pandemic, NZ has used a range of public health measures that have played a direct role in keeping … on what has been achieved so far in terms of the health of the nation. This blog, explores changing mortality … on mortality patterns is excess deaths which can provide information about the burden of mortality . Measures of …
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  • Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data

    … anyone from researchers, policy-makers, journalists and health practitioners to access high quality data on these vital, population-level health statistics. Examples we use include: massive declines … data lies in its richness with aggregate-level demographic information on mortality and cancer incidence in NZ and …
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  • Is youth vaping a problem in New Zealand?

    … systems (ENDS) and their potential contribution to public health. We then explore possible explanations for why reports … the President of the Auckland Secondary School Principals’ Association commented: “ At some schools we are starting to … with work Hāpai te Hauora has underway that will provide information on vaping among schools in low socio-economic …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Where the sun enters, the doctor does not

    … building standards . This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly.   To … Three ways improving houses can relieve pressure on the health system are home heating, reducing home injury hazards …
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  • Media release: New Zealand urged to boost pandemic preparedness as bird flu spreads in US cattle

    … Public health experts are issuing a call to action for New Zealand … say the authors of a new Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . At the forefront of their … key learnings from past responses. Effective public health and social measures, and timely access to testing, …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’

    … But fatalities are just one aspect of the wider harm to health and wellbeing from Gabrielle – which includes impacts on mental health and a major economic burden to the country. Given the … there will also have been other impacts on human health and wellbeing. In the short term these would be due to …
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  • Long COVID: Century-old Lessons We Still Have Not Learned

    … physical distancing where possible. Pandemics and Public-Health Measures The Japanese adopted mask-wearing during the … influenza pandemic – a time when it was the key public-health element of the short list of possible measures … to which the studies were giving us more or less the same information. Here, we just focus on a few of the largest …
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