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  • NZ’s Quitline Service is value-for-money: But how does it compare with other tobacco control actions in a league table?

    … We have just published a journal article on the cost-effectiveness of NZ’s Quitline service (including … Effect sizes and intervention costs were based on past NZ Quitline data and health system costs were from a … $1070 Annual tobacco tax increases for 20 years (1). 57,500 $1160 The second highest impact endgame strategy (a …
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  • The Government’s transport plans work against our health

    … Summary The draft Government Policy Statement (GPS) on Land Transport 2024-34 neither supports the health and … to poor health through the impacts of climate change on the population.  In summary, the proposed policies will … just from this pollutant alone, along with at least 8,500 hospitalisations and 13,000 episodes of asthma in …
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  • Reducing the spread of antibiotic resistance in New Zealand, action is long overdue!

    … the coming decades. This cost will inevitably fall hardest on those communities with the highest overall rates of … As discussed in a recent article in the New Zealand Medical Journal , rapid large reductions in rates of … decade. The table below links to several examples. Year   Report/statement Organisation 2015 Antibiotics and …
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  • A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’

    … university researchers and NGOs are developing to get us on the road to implementation of smart food policies in New … Some renowned scientists recently even made a declaration on Big Food’s influence on undermining healthy food policies … describe their food environment. The INFORMAS work is under the auspices of the International Obesity Taskforce, …
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  • World Ventil8 Day – How do our buildings measure up?

    … than the air we breathe. Taking place every year on the 8 November is World Ventil8 Day. This day aims to … levels. Our recent CO 2 monitoring in shared spaces like medical centre waiting rooms (Figure 2) and hospitality … levels of 1000 ppm (green area of the graph) Figure 2: Medical Centre waiting room CO 2 levels over a 4-day period, …
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  • Vaccination is often cost-effective but not (currently) HPV vaccination for boys in NZ

    … This blog looks at a study we just published on a cost-utility analysis around extending HPV vaccination … money – as per a previous study we have done and blogged on . But given that the Australian Government is now … achieved for girls) would not be cost-effective (at NZ$117,500 per QALY gained, 95% uncertainty interval: NZ$57,100 to …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … Philip Morris USA, Inc. et al., a landmark US case taken under the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations … States; tobacco companies’ profitability has depended on a strategy of global consumer deception that has seen … poses to health, and developed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). 3 No other industry has been the …
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  • Lessons from jurisdictions that are battling their own Delta variant outbreaks

    … Level split), mandating QR scanning at essential services under Alert Level 4, and suspending new bookings in MIQ … (R o ), estimated at between 5 and 7 [3] meaning that on average, a Delta case may infect between 5 to 7 other … own dedicated regional COVID-19 quarantine facility with 500 beds . The Premier in her announcement mentioned the …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … We were involved in a study published in last Friday’s NZ Medical Journal that tried to answer that question from a NZ … [6], including for Māori [7]. We also noted NZ work on smartphone-mediated cardiovascular management [8,9]. But … reviews [14,15] but also that some recent studies did not report statistically significant weight loss [16-19]. So what …
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  • Beyond unhelpful dichotomies: a co-regulatory approach to protecting children from junk food marketing

    … diseases. It is a good time to reflect not only on the content of those approaches, but also the regulatory … really look like? Yes, co-regulation is between full-on regulation and voluntary codes, but clarifications about … to governance’ illustrating the decreasing reliance on state-centric hierarchical control in favour of greater …
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