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  • Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”

    … my perspective – without privilege to the inner workings on COVID-19 management. Image by  TUBS / CC BY-SA Australia … my view). Victoria takes a deep breath in, and goes back under the doona (Australian term for duvet or bedding; Scott … guards contracted to undertake the quarantine duties. This under-trained workforce (not their fault) are also, …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 1)

    … Diana outline the issues. In the Part 2 blog (appearing on Thursday), they aim for more specific recommendations. … 1970s and early 1980s. Some of these studies continue to report results, and information is also now available from … but this phenomenon is seen in all cancers (and many other medical conditions) we screen for. The problem is that when …
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  • How taking an evidence-informed approach can be used to prioritise interventions: The example of cardiovascular disease

    … decisions about which health priorities to focus on, and how to achieve maximum health gains. In this Briefing … each intervention. More detail can be accessed by clicking on individ ual cells in the table.  * For further details see … index (BMI) 1940 (1130 to 2850) 16.3   40,100 (25,500 to 56,300) 21.9 Tobacco (including secondhand smoke***) …
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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … the majority of consumers want. Marketing is predicated on largely common-sense principles; among these, … important.  Most of us will have purchased products on impulse when grocery shopping, even when we have taken … non-smokers supported not allowing tobacco sales within 500 metres of a school. [1]   As the graph below shows, …
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  • Regulating vaping and new nicotine products: Are tobacco companies’ goals aligned with public health objectives?

    … public will soon have the opportunity to make submissions on the long-awaited Smokefree Environments and Regulated … with their goal of profit maximisation. A recent report titled Addiction at Any Cost , published in February … 2). These figures omit any mention of “new entrants” aged under 18 years, and thus are likely to underestimate the …
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  • NZ’s “Team of 5 million” has achieved the lowest COVID-19 death rate in the OECD – but there are still gaps in our pandemic response

    … population, the relative lack of overcrowding (including on public transport), and being an island nation that is not … masks at Alert Level 2 and above, as argued in this NZ Medical Journal article: [7]. It is disappointing that the … to telecoms data and not include other digital data (eg, credit card and EFTPOS transactions) and that personal data …
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  • Tackling child poverty: will the nation’s political leaders honour Richie Poulton’s legacy?

    … of individuals’ early life experiences and environment on their subsequent life-course. This robust evidence shows … Poulton, and we take this opportunity to reflect briefly on his legacy and the challenge it poses to our nation’s … multi-party support for a Child Poverty Reduction Act, under which the government is required to measure poverty (in …
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  • The hardening hypothesis for smoking – but does the evidence point to “softening” in NZ?

    … smokers will be over-represented and hard-core smokers under-represented among those quitting. If true it would … et al in the journal Tobacco Control (14)) drawing on evidence from the Health Promotion Agency’s Health and … despite repeated attempts, or receiving state benefits or on a low income. Quit rates did not change significantly over …
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  • Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: Five key ways to reduce the massive health and social costs

    … has summed up the health costs of air pollution, drawing on comprehensive air quality monitoring data from 2016. The … approximately 1.745 million restricted activity days (days on which people could not do the things they might otherwise … Otago Wellington. Prof Hales is a co-author of the HAPINZ Report discussed in this blog. This work on air pollution is …
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  • The marked decline of sudden mass fatality events in NZ (1900 to 2015)

    … Professor George Thomson Our recently published study on sudden mass fatality events in NZ (10+ deaths per event) … resulting in 460 deaths in total (4.0 deaths per year on average). A majority of events were classified as being … decades. There is a need to collate and analyse data on: non-fatal hospitalisations, survivors of locality-focused …
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