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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 … narrative review concluded that primary care physicians can be effective in delivering weight loss counseling, … counselling (1.5 hour of individual counselling at study start and 1 hour at follow-up home visits after 6 weeks of …
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  • Counting what matters: Rethinking Aotearoa's population statistics without a census

    … that they were not designed for. Ethnic diversity and a rapidly ageing population combine with volatile migration flows to give each place a distinctive challenge in balancing population focused … labour demand leads to households relocating to where they can most afford to live.   The high cost of uncertainty -  …
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  • Eliminate the pandemic virus causing COVID-19 or risk an animal reservoir

    … the greater is the likelihood that it will find a host among other animal species and that these will become a reservoir capable of transmission back to humans. … management strategies of SARS-CoV-2. In New Zealand, we can improve our current elimination strategy by undertaking a …
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  • Covid-19 Case-Fatality Risk & Infection-Fatality Risk – important measures to help guide the pandemic response

    … As we have discussed previously , NZ has managed through a range of public health   measures  to maintain a relatively … at the data available from the NZ Ministry of Health, we can estimate the CFR based on the reported deaths and … levels of mask use in indoor settings. Unfortunately, NZ can expect future Covid-19 pandemic waves, so these above …
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  • The Covid inquiry report is an excellent guide to preparing for the next pandemic – health cuts put that at risk

    … of an elimination strategy, but also weaknesses that we can learn from. It provides a high level ‘road-map’ for improving pandemic preparedness … These recommendations prove a useful ‘road map’ for how NZ can prepare for future pandemic and epidemic threats. The …
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  • An open letter to Cabinet Ministers from 74 health professors calling for a sugary drinks tax

    … In this Public Health Expert blog, we reproduce a letter that appeared in the NZ Herald on 2 April 2016. … to obesity, diabetes and dental caries. The food industry can contribute to solutions through voluntary measures This … drinks taxes in place already they can be relatively simple and are actually cost-saving to implement because of …
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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … As part of influenza pandemic readiness, NZ has a 32 million dollar stockpile of antiviral drugs. But given recent evidence from a new Cochrane systematic review – NZ policymakers should … some of the new evidence and suggests options for a review process.New Zealand seems to have done a fairly good …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Addressing Māori health inequity

    … access to health services, poorer quality of care, and a failure of health services to improve outcomes for Māori, … experts summarise and analyse the parties’ responses. You can read more about the survey in our introductory article , … a single system that has enough innovation in it that can deliver for people on the basis of need. No. To be …
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  • Is NZ a laggard in responding to climate change?: Results of a Global Index

    … and considers what NZ could be aiming for if it is to be a responsible “international citizen” in terms of the global … has a good international reputation in many areas that it can readily build on. But surely we can do much better than … civilisation . The country’s “clean green” brand would start to become more genuine and hence support the promotion …
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  • Engaging online simulator of measles outbreaks (& how NZ needs to do better in eliminating measles)

    … of ‘herd immunity’, The Guardian Newspaper has produced a clever online simulator of measles spread. We comment on … case (a flying red dot) will not trigger other cases. You can even see that sometimes a community with 80% coverage … childhood immunisation schedule are all for diseases that can have serious consequences (2). Measles for example is the …
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