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  • Low-cost heart-healthy bread for NZ

    … is high in walnut (but which was subsequently excluded from further study due to its relatively high cost at NZ$5). All loaves made in a … health. Using linear programming we found it possible to design breads that are nutritionally superior to …
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  • Period Drama: How to Address Period Poverty in Aotearoa

    … products such as tampons or pads stops people from going to work or school 1-2 . Period poverty refers to the specific … to people with periods managing their health in a safe, convenient way, and continue to hinder their free … Wellington. Email: Claire.Marsh@vuw.ac.nz … Period Drama: How to Address Period Poverty in Aotearoa …
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  • Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?

    … published research on the health gains and cost-savings from various legally mandated restrictions on tobacco retail … the results and put the findings in a wider context of how New Zealand might reach its Smokefree 2025 goal.   There … stream have estimated the health effects of access to features of the built environment, including access to: …
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  • Glass half full: Alcohol’s health benefits for cardiovascular disease still controversial, and likely vary by context

    … known’ that moderate amounts of alcohol are beneficial to cardiovascular health.  But actually in research circles … on population health, or death rates here, depends also on how the population is distributed by alcohol consumption – … regardless (e.g. injury), and should be differentiated from ‘average’ consumption. And the J-shaped graph should not …
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  • Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

    … article outlines the new funding and further opportunities to improve housing in Aotearoa New Zealand. K ā inga Ora – … Communities, a Crown agency, has been funded in the Budget to build an extra 3,000 new public homes on top of the 14,050 … near completion, will still fall short of the stock needed to house the 24,081 households on the Public Housing Waiting …
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  • How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    … New Zealand has begun to roll out its Covid-19 vaccination programme, starting with … is less and less likely that we will have community spread from a border control failure. New Zealand priorities should … Image by  torstensimon  from  Pixabay … How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New …
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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … Welcome to this Public Health Expert Blog. This blog is going to consider what we could do, and what we probably should not … do, to improve public health.  We will traverse the range from birth to end of life care and death, efficiency versus …
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  • A policy and research agenda for roll-your-own tobacco

    … goal is now less than ten years away but we are unlikely to achieve this world-leading goal unless the Government … received less attention. In this blog we outline findings from recent studies examining roll-your-own tobacco use and … offers important cost benefits (7,8). Irrespective of how the cost-advantage occurs, RYO tobacco’s relative …
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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … with navigating patients through their care – appears to be cost effective, at least for stage III colon cancer . … the NZ Medical Journal. But care cordiantors will change how patients are treated, and therefore not only change … quicker, supplemented with expert knowledge elicitation from New Zealand health professionals. Despite the …
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  • Using the CovidCard to enhance protection from COVID-19 at the NZ border

    … guests in quarantine and isolation facilities. We discuss how this is a promising move that should facilitate further … sized device that uses low-energy Bluetooth technology to communicate with other proximal devices (see Figure). All … all border workers and also all guests in MIQ facilities (from the time they leave the arriving aircraft). The benefits …
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