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Daily nicotine use increases among youth in Aotearoa NZ: The 2021 Snapshot Y10 Survey
… released findings from the 2021 Snapshot Year 10 survey , a large cross-sectional survey of young people aged 14-15. … of survey respondents reported using an e-cigarette on a daily basis; that proportion had risen to 3.1% in 2019 and … the Snapshot survey means smoking or vaping at least once a month, as opposed to daily use). These details are very …
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Media release: Time for single shot HPV vaccine schedule to prevent cancer in NZ
… Switching to a recommended single dose schedule for the human … cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand. The call to change from a two-dose vaccination program to a single shot comes from … the goal of eliminating all HPV-related cancers.” HPV infection is common and spreads through skin-to-skin contact, …
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Preventing diabetes: What does the latest modelling evidence tell us about health gains and cost savings?
… affecting the fetus [2]. People with diabetes have a substantially increased death rates and high morbidity (ie, … as the “diabetes prevention program” (DPP). The DPP was a randomised controlled trial that tested intensive lifestyle … (metformin) compared to the placebo group, 10 years after randomisation [6]. Large health gains and health system …
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Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic
… In Aotearoa/NZ, Getting Through Together already provides a statement of shared values which can be used to guide a … now and in the days (and probably months) to come. After wide consultation, the Committee arrived at two sets of … are quarantined are given extra support and well looked after, in keeping with the extra burden they carry for …
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We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 1)
… should we be screening for breast cancer at all? This is a big deal, given that most developed countries have invested … cancers detected by screening that would never have caused a problem in a woman’s lifetime) caused by screening? These … from breast cancer is not statistically significant after seven (RR 0.93 95%, CI 0.79-1.09) or 13 years follow up …
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Media release: Poor ventilation on buses and trains – a fixable risk to health
… research measured carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) levels in air as a marker for poor ventilation. When more than half of the … show that passengers in these buses and trains are doing a lot of re-breathing of other people’s exhaled air. There was also a clear pattern of increasingly poor ventilation as seats got …
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Money down the drain: The high cost of leaking water pipes
… of good public health. Leaking water infrastructure poses a threat to this basic necessity and wastes precious funds. … which can be particularly critical at times of scarcity, often the summer months in NZ localities. At times of water … 13 To avoid adverse equity impacts, 11 charging can begin after a basic free allocation is used, as already done by …
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Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ
… is growing evidence that nitrates in drinking water are a risk factor for bowel cancer, there is also emerging … birth outcomes such as prematurity. This blog takes a brief look at this new evidence and puts it into a NZ … deficits, poor respiratory outcomes, impaired motor and cognitive ability, and psychiatric disorders. One US study …
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Aotearoa’s first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza: Heightened awareness and surveillance essential for early detection
… case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus infection on a free-range egg farm in December 2024. The subtype, H7N6, is … This highly pathogenic subtype likely evolved locally from a low-pathogenic H7 subtype found naturally in wild aquatic …
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Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research
… In this blog post we report on a new study from the BODE 3 Programme that suggests that … health sector. We also put these results into a wider context of how nutrition could be improved in NZ. … and stroke. Salt is ubiquitous in processed food, and often at levels that vary widely within the same type of food …
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