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  • New Zealand doing okay in cancer survival: Results from the largest ever cross-national comparison of cancer survival

    … in the UK is often lowest – an embarrassing statistic from the UK’s perspective that galvanised the implementation … for patients. Keeping in mind that survival time is taken from date of diagnosis, if a cancer is detected earlier but … any improvement in the number of men actually dying from prostate cancer. In addition, while substantial effort …
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  • False zombie arguments about illicit tobacco shouldn’t be given any more oxygen

    … consumption. Arguments about growth in illicit trade come from tobacco companies but are given new life whenever … tobacco returns to the Ministry of Health 9 was subtracted from the total amount of tobacco consumed using estimates from annual NZ Health Survey 10 questions. The 2023 …
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  • Reducing the spread of antibiotic resistance in New Zealand, action is long overdue!

    … in inappropriate antibiotic prescribing. Evidence from other countries shows that large reductions in community … will impose a high cost in increased death and disability from untreatable bacterial infections in the coming decades. … been developed. 1 Unfortunately, the low financial rewards from development of new antibiotics are not sufficient to …
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  • Children and young people and COVID-19: The urgent need for improved guidance in NZ

    … May; 1506 cases) and Outbreak 2 (August; 108 cases). Data from the NZ Ministry of Health. Changing evidence about COVID-19 risks for (and from) children and young people Early reports suggested that … review of measures to protect school-age CYP in NZ from the impacts of both the pandemic and the response, …
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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … have taken lists with us and been determined not to depart from these.  Unplanned purchases illustrate how highly … can entice even the unusually rational among us to deviate from our plans. In-store visibility is not the only factor to … harm they cause, they are nonetheless available from at least 5000 outlets.  Research released recently shows …
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  • The alarms are flashing red: Five reasons to upgrade our Alert Level system before the next Covid-positive traveller visits a major city

    … the benefits of an upgraded system: to better protect us from outbreaks, avoid lockdowns, help us transition to a … the case of RSV, infants commonly acquire this infection from older siblings attending school. 3 A key action for … some communities and have notably worsened pre-existing food insecurity and hunger. 5 Many have experienced …
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  • Highlights of the World Conference on Tobacco or Health

    … New Zealand. In summary, New Zealand can still learn a lot from other countries as we move to the adoption of a full … framing of the endgame as protecting future generations from tobacco and should more or less end uptake of smoking … of the Māori Affairs Select Committee report from which the Smokefree 2025 goal originates, but was …
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  • Weekly deaths declined in NZ’s lockdown – but we still don’t know exactly why

    … previous years. Preliminary data on weekly deaths were from Statistics NZ [1]. The data suggest 548 fewer deaths in … around 40% of Wellington ICU patients are typically from elective procedures and around 10% of all Wellington ICU … appear to have overcompensated for any increased deaths from COVID-19 ( 22 deaths as per 9 July) plus potential …
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  • Young New Zealanders want a tobacco-free future - new research

    … demonstrating strong support for smokefree measures from those who will ultimately be most affected -─ teens and … adults. In this Briefing we report these new findings from an International Tobacco Control (ITC) survey conducted … see these measures as supporting their emancipation from a deadly tobacco addiction . In short, most young people …
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  • Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”

    … There are three options: Victoria is largely bordered off from the rest of Australia, living in suppression-land, until … has been added to insult. At the same press conference from Premier Daniel Andrews and Chief Health Officer (CHO) … will happen in a fast moving pandemic situation. Moreover, from what I can gauge the Premier and CHO and their teams …
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