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  • A 100 years ago today – the likely first NZ death from the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … Prof Geoffrey Rice [1]. In comparison, an estimated 258 people died in the Hawkes Bay earthquake of 1931 (the next … reduced in some parts of the world [16], there are still many places where pigs and poultry cohabit. This can result … pre-pandemic period. More work is also probably needed on how to prioritise limited supplies of such treatments (on the …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … individuals need support to change. Rapid evolution of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) offers ever … advice and behavioural cues that are currently included in many kinds of apps. Integration is a key task for the health … step might be to start with the design of apps to help people with their personal health goals, such as becoming …
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  • Ireland leads New Zealand in the battle against obesity

    … adults and 33% of children). What is different however is how the two countries are tackling a problem that has serious … facilitates environments that support healthier choices: “ People of course have a fundamental right to choose to eat … Taskforce on Obesity has had to take account of is that many forces are actively impeding change for those well aware …
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  • Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study

    … on exercise programmes in NZ to prevent falls in older people. This work suggests that this approach (home-based or … showed similar health gains and cost-effectiveness. How does these results compare with other interventions? … to inform policy options. But we recognise there are many other considerations that policy-makers should consider …
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  • Contradictions surround Government’s move to slash tax on heated tobacco products

    … “solutions” (in the form of new nicotine products) to the many harms caused by their smoked tobacco products. 5   6   … means it is unclear what outcomes she wants to achieve or how she plans to assess these. Furthermore, she has not … by explaining how she is monitoring HTP uptake among young people, given reducing excise tax may increase HTP use and …
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  • The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill – a chance to submit on pivotal legislation for health in Aotearoa

    … structural changes and will be associated with a suite of new health planning and strategy documents. The aim of … functions of the MoH and the DHBs. Planning There are many new plans and strategies proposed to be introduced … of Public Health – submitters may want to comment on how this role could be strengthened and whether it should …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … Last week we introduced the concept of league tables to compare interventions. This week we … launched BODE 3 Interactive League Table.  We walk through how to pull down tables and graphs of health gain … and 97.5 th limits for the 95% uncertainty interval, for each of QALYs, costs and ICERs.  These uncertainty intervals …
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  • Unaffordable home heating increases risk of severe mental distress

    … Summary The cost-of-living crisis is placing more people at risk of being … their homes. We know living in cold housing contributes to many negative physical health outcomes. There is increasing …
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  • Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic

    … that tobacco – and for that matter alcohol – with orders of magnitude more harm gets the wet bus ticket regulatory … and alcohol from the legislation? Focusing on tobacco, how are these products, that kill around five thousand New Zealanders every year, regulated? Which of the party pill retail and sale …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … Sciences had made explicit warnings to governments across many years about pandemic and emerging infectious disease … of public and private global organisations contemplating how to deal with a coronavirus pandemic that kills 65 million people. This table-top exercise took place in New York on 18 …
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