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  • NZ’s smart use of big data: Employment & income impacts of selected health conditions

    … New Zealand is making rapid strides in the smart use of big data to provide better health information for … Paper that considers the employment and income effects of eight health conditions. Such information could ultimately … conditions (stroke, traumatic brain injury [TBI], coronary heart disease [CHD], diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’

    … the deaths caused by Cyclone Gabrielle in the context of previous 'sudden mass fatality events' in Aotearoa New … since the year 1900. But fatalities are just one aspect of the wider harm to health and wellbeing from Gabrielle – … a major economic burden to the country. Given the scale of the impacts, there is a need for a broader inquiry to the …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … strategy is now threatened by the global emergence of new variants with increasingly high transmissibility. We … to stay at home, as is any person experiencing respiratory symptoms, requiring systematic provision of adequate payment … that the indications for Covid-19 testing include cold symptoms (sore throat, running nose, and headache), to match …
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  • Can CT screening for lung cancer in New Zealand be cost-effective?

    … it is the most deadly cancer, accounting for almost 20% of all cancer deaths in New Zealand. Lung cancer carries such … when the disease is advanced, has spread to other parts of the body, and is that much harder to treat. Consequently, there is a lot of interest in detecting lung cancer at its earlier stages. …
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  • Open data, transparency and power – role of the Virtual Health Information Network

    … leadership on data sharing. In this blog we describe some of the opportunities and the challenges in this new data … stronger health research and therefore benefit the health of all New Zealanders. The VHIN is a network of health data users, especially in the Statistics NZ …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … Tobacco companies have made much of their “transformation” vision, which they claim will … pioneered this rhetoric yet this company’s recent launch of a new, super value, smoked tobacco product : the cigarillo … a cheaper cigarette-like product fits with PMI’s vision of a smoke-free future? In this blog we explore that question …
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  • NZ should prepare for a potentially severe global coronavirus pandemic

    … In this blog we briefly summarise our assessment of the highly uncertain new coronavirus threat. Given its … precautionary response now means activating all components of our pandemic plan, with a particular focus on ‘keep it … and is spreading rapidly in China with a doubling time of about a week, as reported on 31 January [1]. It also has a …
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  • False zombie arguments about illicit tobacco shouldn’t be given any more oxygen

    … illicit tobacco use has not increased as a proportion of the tobacco market, despite substantial tobacco tax … demand for illicit tobacco 'Zombie arguments' are lines of argument that refuse to die, despite lacking a logical or … taxes is, by definition, an “illicit” trade. In the case of tobacco, this includes counterfeit products, smuggled …
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  • Wellbeing in public housing vs. private rentals: Quality and security make the difference

    … NZ are assessed as being in serious housing need. Many of these households include children whose current and future … This Briefing summarises recent evidence that provision of public housing can improve the wellbeing of people currently in private tenancies. Public housing is, …
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  • Five lessons for Aotearoa NZ from the current COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales

    … generally succeeded in eliminating community transmission of the pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2, but the Greater Sydney … control the outbreak and the grim situation holds a number of lessons for NZ. On 15 June 2021, a 60-year-old airport … at least 28 August ( 10, 11 ). Figure 1: Epidemic curve of daily notified confirmed and probable cases per million …
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