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  • ACC turns 50: A more modern approach to injury prevention needed

    … direction would be a worthy advance to celebrate 50 years of serving Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). The Accident … The blueprint for this scheme was the Woodhouse Report of 1967 which had set out clear principles, addressing both … everyone in the community benefits from the contributions of individuals through work, recreation, and volunteer …
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  • Perspective: The NZ Health Research Strategy Discussion Document – much scope for improvement

    … alternative Vision Statement is proposed. It makes a lot of sense for a country to have a health research strategy. It … this process and for inviting submissions (due by the end of this month) on its Discussion Document (1). Unfortunately the current version of this document has many problematic aspects – and it will …
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  • Meat, health, hospitals, and sustainability*

    … In this blog, I look at the case for reducing the amount of meat in hospital meals and gently remind our dietitian … colleagues not to let their dietary advice get out of date. Over-consumption of meat is costing us. Our health, … to the contrary. For instance, for those recovering from heart disease or type 2 diabetes, the last dietary item they …
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  • A pandemic that won’t go away – as Covid enters its 5th year, NZ needs a realistic strategy

    … accordingly. Evolving variants are driving ongoing waves of infection, prolonging the pandemic's impact. It remains a leading cause of hospitalisation and death, particularly in older … long Covid : recovery can take  two years or more , with  symptoms that fluctuate  over time. 7 An integrated …
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  • Do Aotearoa’s new vaping regulations go far enough?

    … vapes, and recognise these devices have become the product of choice among rangatahi. The regulations also introduce … Year 10 survey conducted by ASH(NZ) in 2022 found 10% of the 14 to 15 year olds reported vaping every day; among … 22% vaped daily. Five years ago, less than two percent of respondents reported vaping every day (data were not …
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  • Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further

    … Other recent research highlights the overall importance of inequalities to health, with a meta-analysis reporting … rates in NZ over 30 years. We used cohort studies of the entire NZ population using probabilistically-linked … data from 1981 to 2011 (68.9 million person years of follow-up). All-cause mortality rates were highest for …
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  • Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory

    … Housing and Health Research Programme at the University of Otago Wellington, we are urging the Electricity Authority … mandatory to protect health. A new report shows up to 55% of residential consumers are not protected by the Guidelines on disconnection. Critically, almost a quarter of Medically Dependent Consumers who rely on electricity at …
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  • Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study

    … doing in response to the evidence.   The NZ Burden of Disease Study (NZBDS) reported that falls cause 10% of all the injury-related health loss in this country – in … yet been quantified for NZ: the social benefits and the heart disease prevention benefits. Technological innovation …
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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … health.  We will traverse the range from birth to end of life care and death, efficiency versus equity, learning … Myself and academic colleagues will blog about issues of the day, and issues that should be issues of the day.  We … it will take on medical devices (e.g. hip prostheses and heart valves) as well.  Like any other prioritisation agency …
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  • Public health priorities in this election year

    … Public Health Priorities Series, which highlights a range of public health challenges linked by a need for … illustrates what can be achieved by the wonderful fusion of public health evidence and progressive Government policy.  … change our framing towards long-term thinking in all areas of policy making.  Our children and future generations will …
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