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  • Calculating cardiovascular risk with online calculators – scope for improvement?

    … It is now possible to readily estimate individual risk of future cardiovascular events with a large number of online calculators – including a NZ-specific calculator … cholesterol to HDL ratio (4.5). CVD events include both heart attacks and strokes.   Can such calculators be improved …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Stemming the tide of cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … focusing on system level solutions .   The blog  is part of the  Public Health Solutions series  looking at effective … to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. In a recent issue of the medical journal The Lancet , a colleague and I had the … a commentary on the latest findings from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study.  The study had examined the …
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  • Stubbing out democracy: no Government mandate for smokefree repeal

    … whether this action has a mandate and legitimacy. Repeal of the legislation was not put before the electorate in the … contrast to the consultative processes preceding adoption of the legislation. The measures to be repealed have strong … public support for the measures that will be repealed. Failure to pay attention to views of community leaders, …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … trends in smoking prevalence, and the potential roles of interventions such as higher regular tobacco tax increases … is ongoing increases in tobacco taxes, intensification of existing evidence-based tobacco control activities and implementation of a major new ‘endgame’ strategy (such as denicotinisation). …
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  • Taxing tobacco in NZ: What we know and what could be next

    … A series of seven annual tobacco tax increases, typically at the 10% … unknown, and what might be needed for the next phase of tobacco taxation related policy and research. Recent … from reduced premature death among workers (e.g., from heart attacks and cancer), and from disability (e.g., strokes …
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  • NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?

    … for a second time this week on the consultation draft of the NZ Health Strategy, focusing this time on preventive … that would have the biggest health impact (a goal of the strategy), reduce health inequalities (another goal of the strategy) and be best value for money (yet another …
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  • Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status

    … to NZ’s Alert Level system that involve improved use of mass masking, targeted internal travel restrictions, and … to elimination status for NZ while minimising disruption of economic activity and education. The global situation It … Alert Level system further in case a future border control failure occurs before an effective vaccine arrives. … Upgrade …
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  • Emphasis on indigenous forests in ETS would benefit public health

    … is currently consulting the public on a redesign of the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), its key climate … from redesigning the ETS to drive the restoration of indigenous forests in the face of climate change. Given the extent of such benefits, a …
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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … is the first ‘comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across the 195 … risk environment. The Index emphasises the importance of addressing global catastrophic biological risks (those of unprecedented scale, that might even undermine humanity’s …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … smoked tobacco products are virtually nicotine free is one of the key proposals included in the Smokefree 2025 Action … blog explored the potential advantages and disadvantages of this policy . This blog summarises estimates of the likely impact of a denicotinisation policy from a New …
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