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  • Food poverty for NZ teens creating an achievement lag of up to four years

    … show Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) students’ maths, science and reading proficiency levels have dropped since 2018, and … had dropped from fourth in the OECD to 19 th . 1 This rank comes from the Program for International Student … a week and 94 points for students who miss meals every day or almost every day (Figure 1 and Appendix). To put this …
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  • A new online calculator for estimating how much a society might spend on life-saving interventions

    … generated by this calculator vary greatly by age: NZ$ 1.2 million for an intervention to save the life of a child, NZ$ 0.7 million for a 50-year-old, and NZ$ 0.2 million for an 80-year-old, assuming we are … the country-specific societal preference for saving a life or gaining a life-year at different ages. In such an ideal …
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  • Expanding Ka Ora, Ka Ako is ‘bread and butter’ action to alleviate the cost-of-healthy-food crisis

    … Zealand hard, is the cost-of-healthy-food crisis. Fruit and vegetable prices have increased at a much higher rate … high, while minimum wages remain below the living wage. 1  As outlined in the recent Growing Up in New Zealand … (i.e. student-reported ‘Food ran out at home’ or ‘Went hungry as not enough food at home’) was common in …
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  • Smokefree outdoor areas: A missing part of Government’s new Smokefree 2025 proposals

    … to quit need places where being smokefree is normal, and in particular, they need smokefree outdoor hospitality … recent proposals for achieving the Smokefree 2025 Goal, 1 especially with those for markedly reducing retail outlets … level increases the chance of starting smoking or not being able to quit. 4 International evidence indicates …
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  • Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory

    … Summary As He Kāinga Oranga Housing and Health Research Programme at the University of Otago … that we agree are required for housing in Aotearoa. 1 The most serious health outcome of energy hardship is … trading off buying groceries to pay for the electricity; or not having refrigeration; or risking falls or not being …
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  • Public health priorities in this election year

    … achieved by the wonderful fusion of public health evidence and progressive Government policy.  The other issues … highlight stark choices in areas such as creating a more or less fair society and a more or less healthy environment.  A unifying theme is …
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  • BMI keeps on going up – and reflections on the Diabesity Symposium

    … Is body mass index (BMI) relentlessly increasing in NZ, or plateauing? In this blog we present trends in BMI by … held in Auckland, under the auspices of the Better Start and Healthier Lives National Science Challenges and Edgar … far back as we could go, in the book The Healthy Country . 1 For this blog we pulled out the data on adult BMI from 1989 …
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  • Contradictions surround Government’s move to slash tax on heated tobacco products

    … denicotinisation, the reduction in tobacco outlets, and the smokefree generation, as experimental and unproven, … tobacco products cause was misleading and deceptive. 1-4  A judge involved in one of these trials,  Judge Gladys … 2024 , in Health Minister Dr Shane Reti’s  media statement or in the  fact sheet linked to his statement. In a  media …
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  • Can CT screening for lung cancer in New Zealand be cost-effective?

    … In this blog, we discuss the uncertainties and suggest a way forward for New Zealand.   Lung cancer … – it doesn’t make it into the “top three” cancers in men or women. But it is the most deadly cancer, accounting for … mortality (by ~7%) compared to screening via chest x-ray (1). This US study (the National Lung Screening Trial or NLST) …
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  • NZ’s smart use of big data: Employment & income impacts of selected health conditions

    … a Treasury Working Paper that considers the employment and income effects of eight health conditions. Such … a Working Paper by one of their staff, Sylvia Dixon (1). The study examined the impact of health conditions on the … develop them. The study considered adults who were in wage or salaried employment at the time they were first diagnosed …
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