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  • Health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 response: NZ compared to OECD countries

    … and -6.3% for the OECD. Nevertheless, a fuller accounting of health, economic and equity impacts probably needs to wait … of “long COVID” where long-term illness may occur even in people with mild or no symptoms during their initial … as Iceland, which re-opened mid-year to tourism from many countries. Tourism flows were low (20% to 25% of normal …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … and opportunities .    Most health impacts occur after many years or decades of smoking. However, stopping smoking … Numerous studies , including from Aotearoa, find that people who smoke and are provided with denicotinised … and ensure people who smoke are fully informed about the how the measures will affect them and are supported to quit.  …
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  • Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study

    … cost-effective was targeting this intervention to older people with previous injurious falls. In this blog we take a … doing in response to the evidence.   The NZ Burden of Disease Study (NZBDS) reported that falls cause 10% of all … DHBs. (Conversely, this means that providing HSAM to 65+ year olds with no previous injurious falls will be less …
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  • Does change in income and deprivation change your smoking risk? Yes, but in different directions.

    … groups are more likely to smoke.  But why?  Is it because of things like less education or more deprivation actually … Control, answers these questions using data on the same people followed over several years.  We found that moving … tease out causation from correlation, because it tracked how the smoking behaviours of 11,000 Kiwis changed when their …
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  • The need for an updated strategic approach to Covid-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … and “regional elimination”. To maximise the success of this strategy, NZ would need to ensure tighter internal … that show that successful internal border control of Covid-19 is possible. Until very recently, Aotearoa NZ was … connections with the world to allow larger numbers of New Zealanders to safely enter the country. The current …
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  • Preventing diabetes: What does the latest modelling evidence tell us about health gains and cost savings?

    … Approximately 5.5% of NZ adults have been diagnosed with diabetes. In this blog … to have been diagnosed with diabetes [1]. Furthermore, people living in poorer neighbourhoods are almost twice as … These are relatively large health gains compared to many other interventions, as indicated by data from our BODE …
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  • Tax policy as a key health determinant: Reform for the Covid-19 reset

    … that are critical for the prevention and management of Covid-19. Tax is the way we all share our resources in …  from  Pixabay The choices made in how and from whom we collect tax influence not only the … of developed countries (see diagram below). Currently, people on $700,000 pay the same top tax rate (33%), as people …
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  • Surviving winter: NZ’s journey through 145 years of seasonal survival – New study

    … Mortality (EWM) in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) for a 145 year period (from 1876 to 2020). We found that the average … was a favourable decline in winter excess deaths from 7.9% of annual deaths in the 1920s, down to 4.5% in the 2010s … used as an indicator of vulnerability to cold, including how well our housing protects us from the cold. EWM is …
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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … is the first ‘comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across the 195 … risk environment. The Index emphasises the importance of addressing global catastrophic biological risks (those of … the workforce that is needed to develop and drive many of the systems required to prevent and manage pandemic …
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  • Why are some preventable cancer deaths in Māori and Pacific peoples increasing?

    … as some favourable trends. In this blog we discuss some of the key findings of this research and what the options are … inequalities in cancer in New Zealand. 1 For every 100,000 people who identified as Māori, from 2006-11 there were more … men and women were 1.91 and 2.18 times more likely to die from cancer than European/Other respectively. Pacific men …
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