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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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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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Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected
… gas emissions. The evidence suggests that the benefits of estimated time savings are overstated and don’t always improve economic productivity. The health impacts of raising speed limits are likely to be significant and … authorities have reduced urban speed limits across many of our cities, and expressed strong support for continuing …
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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 … moving from a neighbourhood with the least deprived fifth of New Zealanders to the most deprived fifth increased someone’s odds or chance of smoking by a large 83%. This increase in your chances of …
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BMI keeps on going up – and reflections on the Diabesity Symposium
… increase in BMI is linear, relentless increasing; no sign of a plateau, yet. Given this trend, The Diabesity Crisis symposium just held in Auckland, under the auspices of the Better Start and Healthier Lives National Science … forthcoming research and policy priorities? The Ministry of Health has a very user friendly tool for accessing Health …
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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 … aged 65 years or over, falls are the most common cause of injury-related health loss, and responsible for …
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Media release: New Zealand urged to boost pandemic preparedness as bird flu spreads in US cattle
… threat posed by the Influenza A(H5N1) virus. This strain of what is commonly known as ‘bird flu’ has sparked concerns … transmission, its ability to infect a broader range of animals raises alarms for potential future mutations. This … enhance its pandemic response strategies, say the authors of a new Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre …
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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 undertake to make this blog informative, …
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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, our healthcare system, and …
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Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study
… Yet there are interventions that can reduce the risk of falls. In this blog we examine some programme options. … in the programme, the health gains over the remainder of their lives would be 47,100 quality-adjusted life-years … 95% uncertainty interval [UI]: 22,300 to 74,400). In terms of “value-for-money”, the incremental cost-effectiveness …
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