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  • The long shadow of Cyclone Gabrielle: Brief review at 12 months

    …   Summary A year ago Cyclone Gabrielle struck Aotearoa New Zealand and … in NZ (Manawatu 2004), 8 and long-term health effects after earthquakes impacting Christchurch. 9 Ongoing … economic loss from the farmland that has not been repaired after Cyclone Gabrielle. For example, “about 650 hectares of …
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  • Can CT screening for lung cancer in New Zealand be cost-effective?

    … mortality. So why aren’t countries rushing to introduce a screening programme? Because there is still doubt about its … In this blog, we discuss the uncertainties and suggest a way forward for New Zealand.   Lung cancer isn’t the most … Lung cancer carries such a high mortality because it is often picked up at a late stage, when the disease is …
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  • Using the CovidCard to enhance protection from COVID-19 at the NZ border

    … and isolation facilities. We discuss how this is a promising move that should facilitate further improvements … isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities have highlighted a systems failure. Likewise, a number of high profile … obvious benefit is identifying those workers at risk of infection by a newly identified case and being able to manage …
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  • Advising men on prostate cancer screening – is the cart before the horse in terms of evidence?

    … advocate PSA ‘testing’ to occur only among men who express a definite preference for screening after discussion with their clinician. This is similar to the … Prostate cancer is common among older men, and often so slow growing that it will not cause any problems in …
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  • Daily aspirin for preventing cancer and heart disease – where to from here in NZ?

    … A recently published review has quantified the estimated … aspirin for disease prevention. The results indicate a relatively favourable benefit-to-harm ratio (good for … published review article by Cuzick and colleagues provides a state-of-the-art summary and integration of the data. Out …
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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … more preparations in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) concerning a future national outbreak of Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 … for Johnson & Johnson) receive a third dose at 6 months after their second dose.” Vaccination coverage data was as … toward 3 days.” From Figure 10.1 (in the NZ Report) the infection-fatality rate (IFR) on 10 January 2022 is <0.2% …
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  • Carcinogen exposure in Aotearoa workplaces is unacceptably high

    … and creating an Aotearoa Occupational Health Service, with a focus on establishing lifetime access to screening and … work-related cancer is fraught with difficulty. There is often a long latency period between exposure at work and the … problem for work-related cancers that occur many years after exposure; the onus for monitoring the health of workers …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan: Why this could eliminate smoking disparities for Māori

    … The recent release of the Government’s “Proposals for a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan” (the  Plan) represents a significant step forward in how we think about tobacco … our generations so you can make profits… 5 Shortly after the bill was presented to Parliament co-author of this …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The bigger picture benefits

    … food system resilience.  In this, the first Briefing in a three-part series, we outline some of the key expected … impacts and evidence at these different levels. While a careful review of the evidence around outcomes from the investment in the Aotearoa NZ programme is required, a narrow definition of cost-benefit needs to be avoided. …
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  • More courage needed from our political parties—reviewing our election series

    … our “Where do the parties stand” series, in which we put a range of public health issues to the five parties currently … well as flagging relevant policy announcements that came after the publication of some articles. On some of the issues … to decision-makers and the public. Public health covers a wide range of issues, so we have kept the survey to a …
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