655 Results

  • Preventing diabetes: What does the latest modelling evidence tell us about health gains and cost savings?

    … Approximately 5.5% of NZ adults have been diagnosed with diabetes. In this blog … diabetes is one of the main causes of blindness, kidney failure and lower limb/toe amputations, all of which involve … directly, but as diabetes also increases risk of coronary heart disease and stroke, a proportion also comes from …
    Briefing

  • Period Drama: How to Address Period Poverty in Aotearoa

    … because products like tampons and pads are priced out of reach. Period poverty impacts Kiwis everyday and is often … periods as a mundane, if at times inconvenient, part of their everyday lives. However, periods can present serious ongoing consequences when the prohibitive cost of products such as tampons or pads stops people from going …
    Briefing

  • Climate Change and Recent Actions of NZ Political Parties

    … The health organisation OraTaiao convened a group of experts to analyse the climate change policies of NZ political party policies. It gave the highest grade to … 2). Problematic actions: Nil identified. However, its failure as the main opposition party to assertively hold the …
    Briefing

  • New Zealand’s hard-won improvements to our Building Code must be retained: Here’s why

    … that the Government is  considering reducing the thickness of insulation required in new homes . This would mean rolling … has been geared around the new standards, but the cost of a rollback would not just affect industry, it will impact … and Building Minister Chris Penk has asked the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) to  work …
    Briefing

  • Being Bolder – Public Health Endgames for NZ

    … At the Public Health Congress in Auckland last week, one of us presented on potential public health endgames – partly … this country could be bolder about tackling.    Examples of successful endgames internationally Thus far, only two … disease once threatening the livelihood and food security of millions of people in the Middle East, Africa and Asia). …
    Briefing

  • Happiness surveys, & can health sector interventions improve well-being?

    … among the happiest people in the world, ranking 13 th out of 156 nations examined. Actually only seven countries appear … (Netherlands and Switzerland) and Canada. The source of the New Zealand data is the two-yearly New Zealand General … second most important cause of health loss after coronary heart disease. Actually for New Zealand women they were the …
    Briefing

  • Faster mortality decline – slower population ageing. How could this be?

    …   SNZ predictions of number of New Zealanders aged 65 plus Have you sat in a meeting … someone is invoking the aging population as a harbringer of doom and gloom due to the tsunami of older people with …
    Briefing

  • Rising congenital syphilis in Aotearoa New Zealand needs a strong response

    … Summary The global resurgence of syphilis is affecting Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). It is … infants can have a spectrum of clinical problems from no symptoms, to preterm birth; to severely affected with fever, … "Any case of congenital syphilis represents a healthcare failure"   13 What is new in this Briefing There is a global …
    Briefing

  • Casting a long shadow: Infection drives stomach cancer inequalities in Māori and Pacific peoples

    … from the bacteria Helicobacter pylori is the major driver of stomach cancer inequalities borne by Māori and Pacific … Māori and Pacific people have 3 to 6 times the rates of stomach cancer as NZ Europeans. These are some of the starkest relative inequalities between ethnic groups …
    Briefing

  • Health system costs in NZ: variation by sex, age & proximity to death

    … Such work is only possible due to extraordinary richness of routine NZ data. We highlight four findings. First, costs … is much less variability by age for costs in the last year of life – indeed, the ‘costs of dying’ peak at about 60 years of age, then fall …
    Briefing

Subscribe

Briefing CTA

Public Health Expert Briefing

Get the latest insights from the public health research community delivered straight to your inbox for free. Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest research, analysis and commentary from the Public Health Expert Briefing.

PHCC logo PHCC

The PHCC is funded by a philanthropic endowment from the Gama Foundation and hosted by the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington.

Contact

Email phcc@phcc.org.nz
43 Hanson Street, Mt Cook, 
Wellington | Te Whanganui-a-Tara
PO Box 7343, Wellington South 6242
New Zealand | Aotearoa

 

Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)