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  • Weekly deaths declined in NZ’s lockdown – but we still don’t know exactly why

    … NZ up to 8 June 2020 (the first 23 weeks into the year) and made comparisons with the three previous years. … Preliminary data on weekly deaths were from Statistics NZ [1]. The data suggest 548 fewer deaths in NZ for this 23-week … higher than in 2019 for the first two months of the year and then dropped below those of 2019 – particularly near the …
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  • Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options?

    … 10% per annum tobacco tax increases per year for 15 years, or a national colorectal cancer screening programme. … – as NZ is doing. In this blog we discuss this new study and issues that policy-makers should consider to maximise the … (in a top epidemiological methods journal: Epidemiology [1]) took into account the various benefits of vaping (eg, the …
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  • Wellbeing in public housing vs. private rentals: Quality and security make the difference

    … Many of these households include children whose current and future wellbeing is likely to be impaired by living in … For instance, using GSS data,  Anastasiadis et al 1  show that after public housing placement, tenants … result may be due to lower rents in HA accommodation and/or to “a sense of stability offered by HA homes”. Other …
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  • Action needed to halt New Zealand’s obesity epidemic: Themes from Big Food Symposium

    … International and national public health experts and delegates met on … the next decade (compared to a NZ without any overweight or obesity). These preventable costs are a mix of costs to … estimated the annual cost of obesity to be $847 million.(1) Given the 2% increase in obesity since this time,(2) it …
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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … Government’s 2012 Budget included $33 million for “better and faster” services for cancer patients, of which $16 … nurses.  This all seems sensible, in that the i mmediate and net cost of cancer care coordinators may be negligible – … good survival already (e.g. early stage breast cancer), or very poor survival with little treatment effectiveness …
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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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