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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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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 1)

    … Editor note: This week Dr Caroline Shaw and Associate Professor Diana Sarfati consider the pros and … due to over-detection and other issues. In today’s Part 1 blog, Caroline and Diana outline the issues. In the Part 2 … significant after seven (RR 0.93 95%, CI 0.79-1.09) or 13 years follow up (RR 0.90 95%, CI 0.79-1.02). The …
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  • Time to stop dodging bullets? NZ’s eight recent border control failures

    … two weeks. In this blog we briefly detail these failures and argue the case for an urgent review and upgrading of the country’s defences against this highly … transmission of the pandemic virus that causes COVID-19. 1 It has sustained the lowest COVID-19 mortality rate in the …
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  • Alcohol-related harms now available on demand

    … NZ Government could enact to address this risk to health and wellbeing.    On-demand services online have been … new commodity to be sold in this way in Aotearoa. 1 2 This is concerning given that alcohol is one of the most … had more than 5 standard drinks (over a quarter had 11 or more) with 28% stating that this enabled them to continue …
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