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    … This privacy policy relates to the website for the Public Health Communication Centre ( … The PHCC collects the following personal information from you when you subscribe to our publications: Your name … take all reasonable steps to keep personal information safe and secure, and to ensure that it is protected against …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Protecting the healthcare system: a strategic approach to reducing infectious disease impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … In this blog we outline three immediate approaches to protect people and systems from infectious disease impacts … to address other infections ; and supporting safe access to education, work, and social settings.   This … prevent infections because we now have many more ways to stay safe and connected. Three approaches can be implemented …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle by the numbers – A review at six months

    … events with 11 people losing their lives. The cost to the country is estimated to be up to $14.5 billion. The … key quantifiable impacts. We collate key statistics from media reports, government statements, Official … (HBRC) has commissioned an independent review looking at how its flood protection schemes withstood the cyclone. …
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  • The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill – a chance to submit on pivotal legislation for health in Aotearoa

    … planning and strategy documents. The aim of this blog is to introduce some key aspects of the Bill and to strongly … of Public Health – submitters may want to comment on how this role could be strengthened and whether it should … when these are further developed; and would welcome ideas from other groups. While various groups will appropriately …
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  • Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?

    … BMC Infectious Diseases  (1). This blog briefly examines how a possible population screening programme, that tests and … pylori in the stomach, may be a cost-effective way to reduce the stomach cancer burden and ethnic inequalities … therapy, we used a one-third reduction in stomach cancer from a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (4). We …
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  • The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review

    … of all the military files and key data abstracted from them should make it easier for researchers to fill these knowledge gaps in coming years. According to the Roll-of-Honour dataset for NZ military forces in the …
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  • Why are some preventable cancer deaths in Māori and Pacific peoples increasing?

    … of this research and what the options are for NZ society to address the harmful trends for obesity-related cancers, … just published an update on cancer mortality inequalities, from the New Zealand Census Mortality Study (NZCMS) and … Māori men and women were 1.91 and 2.18 times more likely to die from cancer than European/Other respectively. Pacific …
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  • The Brits are doing it: likely health benefits from a levy on soft drinks

    … the UK soft drink levy being introduced in 2017 is likely to benefit health (reduced obesity, diabetes and dental … Basically, it is a three-tier levy of (current estimates from the UK Office for Budget Responsibility) of 18 pence per … But here’s the thing.  It is up to the Drinks Industry how they ‘manage’ this levy.  They might: Pass it on to the …
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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … of cases in hospital might peak at 2,790 (95%CI: 120 to 9,070) in early March 2022. Cumulative additional deaths … other factors, such as the social and economic disruption from such an Omicron outbreak, should also be important … year olds, and to learn from places like Australia about how best to protect the hospital system and critical supply …
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  • Health system costs in NZ: variation by sex, age & proximity to death

    … This blog aims to discuss a study we recently published on NZ health system … these missing costs would change the pattern observed from the HealthTracker data. For example, it is clear that … for the total NZ population An important policy issue is how health system costs will grow in the future, due to …
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