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NZ’s smart use of big data: Employment & income impacts of selected health conditions
… health information for decision-makers. Here we look at a recent output: a Treasury Working Paper that considers the … interested in both health gain and workplace productivity can prioritise health interventions from a wider societal … in this Treasury study e.g.: Stroke, CHD and COPD can be prevented via tobacco control interventions. Diabetes, …
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Public Health Solutions Series: Simple transport system changes could quickly relieve the crisis in our hospitals
… treatment of major trauma and injuries (around 14000 a year), hospitalisations for heart conditions (2000 a year … Although changing infrastructure and the shape of cities can take decades, there are some changes to the transport … to do so. Here are three evidence-based interventions that can be implemented relatively quickly to reduce demand on …
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Parliamentary voting for smokefree over two decades: Implications for future progress
… Summary The recent repeal of a key law to reduce the enormous health and economic burden from tobacco in Aotearoa NZ is a health, health equity, and economic tragedy. It occurred … only 2 of 7 occasions and ACT on only 2 of 9 occasions). A potential implication of these findings is that various …
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Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’
… Gabrielle – which includes impacts on mental health and a major economic burden to the country. Given the scale of … avoid the list getting longer. Sudden mass fatality events can be broadly defined as those events leading to death of 10 … excludes ongoing events such as pandemics and wars which can lead to a sustained loss of life over months or years. …
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Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data
… this important data closer to users we have developed a user-friendly interactive online graphing tool . Below we … Explorer and outline how some of our key research findings can be identified using this tool. High quality data publicly … feature of the Data Explorer is its flexibility. The data can be restricted and compared by cause of mortality, type of …
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A 100 years ago today a death ship from NZ arrived in Samoa: A reminder of NZ’s responsibilities to its South Pacific neighbours
… with infectious disease surveillance and pandemic control. A recent review of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the Pacific … for another maritime spread of influenza. During a single voyage, the ship inadvertently introduced pandemic … from legal action and that key industries such as tourism can potentially be compensated financially to speed their …
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How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand
… and the National Ethics Advisory Committee has released a final report [3] on Resource Allocation and Covid-19 that includes a section on vaccine prioritisation. The NZ Government has … may raise concerns. Surely these are privileged people who can afford to travel and should not “jump the queue” just …
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Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?
… explore the arguments around such disinvestment from a public health perspective. To understand why these … second goal, overcoming poverty, then it is apparent we can choose between a range of low-carbon routes to better … to should we degrade our biosphere to the point where it can no longer meet our needs and sustain our economies” …
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BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it
… tables to compare interventions. This week we provide a brief ‘user guide’ for our just launched BODE 3 Interactive … outputs that we will describe in coming weeks. Third, you can select (ranked) tables and figures of QALYs, costs and … (costs more – but way into the future). We have elected to show heterogeneity results (i.e. by age, ethnicity, and …
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Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?
… Image from a World Health Organization poster In a modelling study we … (iii) tax increases tend to generate extra revenue that can then be used in funding other aspects of tobacco control … smoking (83% in one study ), and that sharp price rises can therefore help them achieve their personal goals of …
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