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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table Series: Prevention versus treatment, voluntary versus mandatory, targeted versus untargeted – can we generalize?

    … approaches might typically generate the most health gain and be best value-for-money. In two of the previous blogs in … international best practice for such analyses). Figure 1: QALYs gained for selected preventive and treatment … For example, dietary counselling to obese people only, or a screening programme to ages where the cost-effectiveness …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … (ISDS), the TPP agreement as a whole applies to tobacco, and breaches of the TPP might, in principle, be alleged in … carve-out’, and a ‘win’ for tobacco and global health [1]. The effort that was necessary to achieve the partial ISDS … of those obligations agents which may complain (states or investors or both) complaint/dispute provisions and …
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  • Website Privacy Policy

    … Wellington campus. The policy operates alongside and subject to any other privacy statements or policies that may apply to specific supplies of … of Otago privacy provisions also apply. Collection and use of personal information The PHCC collects the …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Two Injury Prevention Strategies to Reduce Pressure on the Health System

    … This blog briefly considers raising alcohol taxes and further lowering the drink driving limits. There is good scientific evidence supporting both these measures and i f political leaders explained the health and economic … sensitive to price elasticity values, discount rates or time horizons for measurement of outcomes. But even this …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … This blog takes a brief look at this new evidence and puts it into a NZ context. Nitrate is one of the most … farming has increased substantially since 1990 (see Figure 1). Recent studies linking nitrate levels as low as 0.87 mg/L … limit does not account for the potential links to cancer or other adverse health outcomes. Attracting less public …
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  • The need for an updated strategic approach to Covid-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … strategic approach that considers “regional suppression” and “regional elimination”. To maximise the success of this … there are examples from five Australian states and territories that show that successful internal border … much tighter internal borders with areas with current or potential community transmission. South Island “Regional …
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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … retail outlets to continue selling it until they closed or relocated. The estimated outcome would be a 50% decrease … of new nicotine products being brought onto the market and governments are faced with the daunting task of … as long as they stay in business. Our just published [1] research looked at what would happen if NZ’s Government …
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  • NZ compares well with other OECD countries in health & other areas: But scope for improvements

    … Life Index”. This blog considers some of the details and also various ways we could make further improvements in … in a large number of topics in the “Better Life Index” [1]. What follows are a list of some of the specifics – both … countries (for each indicator, think of 1 being the best or most positive, and 36 the worst). Higher well-being: In …
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  • Study of NZ fruit & vegetable prices suggests markets best value-for-money

    … Food prices matter for determining access to healthy food – and so we studied fruit and vegetable prices in two NZ cities in this newly published … a supermarket). We also consider what else that central and local government could do to facilitate use of such …
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  • Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?

    … common with Stanford, the Australian National University and the British Medical Association? They have all decided in … gases must be halved by 2050, and reduced to near zero or negative by 2100. This will be a huge challenge given that … responses to such objections might go along these lines. 1. Is it really true that best-possible yield is the …
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