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  • Can CT screening for lung cancer in New Zealand be cost-effective?

    … lung cancer mortality. So why aren’t countries rushing to introduce a screening programme? Because there is still … lung cancer with three annual LDCT scans has been shown to reduce mortality from lung cancer (by ~20%) and overall … dollars per QALY in cost-effectiveness studies is far less important than in interrogating the assumptions and inputs …
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  • Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

    … article outlines the new funding and further opportunities to improve housing in Aotearoa New Zealand. K ā inga Ora – … Waiting List between March last year and this year, but the newly funded 3,000 houses, alongside the houses near … two relatively simple measures – insulation and heating - reduce electricity use on average by 16 percent . It’s an …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … As a strategy to reduce harm from alcohol, there is growing interest … and should be treated with a measure of scepticism. But careful modelling often provides the best evidence we … outweighs the latter. Footnote: ** We believe this is an important finding – population wide prevention programmes …
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  • Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023

    … ideological grounds. This is despite the evidence pointing to the savings in lives and health dollars from prevention … Ayesha Verrall, has passed world-leading legislation to reduce the prevalence and inequities in smoking, as well as … to halt the explosion of vaping outlets and rapid rise in youth vaping. Tobacco and vaping policies received the …
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  • Progress on reducing retail availability of sugary drinks in NZ

    … and schools. In this blog we look at such successes to date and consider what could be done to further reduce availability of these products which are both harming … could be done? NZ could step-up policies to “end child and youth obesity”. The NZ Government did launch its childhood …
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  • Home modification to reduce falls – appears cost-effective in NZ

    … study on a home safety and modification programme to prevent falls in older people. This work suggests that … cost-effective at a health district level in New Zealand. But in this blog we discuss possible implementation options … aged 65+ or aged 75+ with a prior injurious fall would reduce upfront intervention costs. Such approaches would also …
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  • “Nudging” to improve QR scanning and mask wearing to protect us all during a pandemic

    … and mask wearing rates are variable, rising in response to immediate threats and falling off when those threats … reported low scanning rates across varied settings raises important questions about how compliance could be improved in … they planned to eat. These very simple measures could reduce the physical and time cost of scanning, which will …
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  • Advising men on prostate cancer screening – is the cart before the horse in terms of evidence?

    … .[1] This blog considers the key recent evidence relating to prostate cancer screening.  There remain many problematic … to the screening arm after 13 years of follow up.[4,5] But there was substantial contamination of the ‘unscreened’ … screening remain controversial. They state that “You can reduce the risk of dying from prostate cancer by finding the …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’

    … 1900. But fatalities are just one aspect of the wider harm to health and wellbeing from Gabrielle – which includes … as Gabrielle more extreme . 5 It is therefore critically important that Aotearoa NZ meets its international … to eliminate forestry slash in vulnerable areas to reduce the damage to infrastructure (eg, bridges and roads) …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … products are virtually nicotine free is one of the key proposals included in the Smokefree 2025 Action Plan … 2025 Goal. The document presents a comprehensive strategy to achieve rapid and equitable reductions in smoking. The APDD includes a proposal to reduce nicotine in smoked tobacco products to very low levels …
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