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  • Bowel cancer screening – An interesting new US study and thoughts about the NZ situation

    … with several FOBTs, such bowel cancer screening can still be very effective as one has multiple occasions to detect … per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gained, this might be a good use of public health dollars. (It will, in all … articulated by Government for this. Should New Zealand be using one-off colonoscopy screening as in this US study? …
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  • Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

    … over 15 percent in the UK. Most of the houses that will be around by the turn of the next century have already been … we have been waiting impatiently for the Building Code to be updated so that it compares more favourably with countries … the Whai Kāinga Whai Oranga programme .  However, it is to be sincerely hoped this funding will also be used to support …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning

    … of Education David Seymour announcing that funding may be cut by 30-50% in this year’s budget. The main reasons … staff in programme success 3 , delved into whether it can be successfully implemented in schools implementing Te Ao … achievement. One of the reasons this evaluation would be very hard to do is because of the confounding factors. By …
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  • Human health impacts of plastic exposure – an evolving evidence base

    … and autism. 12   Plastic particles Plastic particles may be used in manufactured products or be released from plastic items during use, inevitably … California, there is now legislation for source waters to be tested. 18 Plastic particles pose a risk via their …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey

    … Findings relating to prevalence and trends in vaping will be reported in a future briefing. About the New  Zealand … currently.   17.1% of Māori smoke daily (estimated to be 108,000 people). Compared to 2021/22, daily smoking rates … of ex-smokers (reduced from 20.5% to 16.9%), as would be expected to accompany a genuine large fall in smoking …
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  • Reducing nicotine in smoked tobacco products: A pivotal feature of the Smokefree Aotearoa proposals

    … market and home grown tobacco use. Indeed, this seems to be the only argument that the tobacco industry has made … have noted that any increase in illicit trade is likely to be modest and will not undermine the substantial positive … isolation, make it unlikely that smuggled tobacco will be a major problem. Nonetheless, surveillance and enforcement …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … reported that 45% of dementia cases worldwide could be prevented by tackling 14 key risk factors, such as … potential for dementia prevention has been demonstrated to be higher in NZ, and even higher again in Māori and Pacific … even when the immediate dementia risk is deemed to be low.  Furthermore, many risk factors are associated with …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Two Injury Prevention Strategies to Reduce Pressure on the Health System

    … for measurement of outcomes. But even this analysis would be expected to substantially underestimate the overall health … political feasible in Aotearoa NZ?   Perhaps they could be if political leaders explained the health and economic … at a time when pressure on the health system needs to be reduced. The alcohol tax measure may also have higher …
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  • Protecting fresh waterways in Aotearoa/NZ: The strong Public Health case

    … (eg, reviewed in: [16]). Giardia infection can also be spread via water in NZ (eg, [17]). Associations have been … 4% of colorectal cancers in the European Union that could be attributed to nitrate exposure [31]. Applied to NZ, this … would suggest exposure to nitrates in drinking water could be causing approximately 120 cases of colorectal cancer a …
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  • Highly variable cost-effectiveness with disease characteristics and age: Herceptin as a Case Study

    … doesn’t . All the more reason why funding decisions should be informed by the best, most precise kind of objective … published cost-effectiveness analysis of Herceptin . To be clear, this was a retrospective exercise: a one-year … of a ‘good treatment’ like Herceptin may not actually be realised as prolongation of life. This joint heterogeneity …
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