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  • Local alcohol policies: What’s the opportunity to reduce harm?

    … However, early attempts were undermined by legal appeals from the alcohol industry. Legal developments in 2023 have … not fairly distributed - Māori are twice as likely to die from alcohol-related causes compared to non-Māori. 2 Alcohol … that LAPs now provide In 2023, the Act was amended to remove the ability to appeal any element of a provisional …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Public policy options to address alcohol-related harm in Aotearoa

    … and alcohol-related assaults and injuries as well as from chronic conditions such as liver damage and cancers. The … over the first ten years, with ~$1 billion coming directly from health care savings.   The current alcohol tax rate in … Ideally, this would restrict alcohol sales after 8pm and remove sales on one weekend day as these are the times …
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  • Casting a long shadow: Infection drives stomach cancer inequalities in Māori and Pacific peoples

    … our recently published study that shows that infection from the bacteria Helicobacter pylori is the major driver of … Health reported that 80 Māori and 35 Pacific people died from stomach cancer, out of a total of 371 stomach cancer … The evidence is also unclear about the potential harms from screening, and this question needs further …
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  • A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data

    … definitive evidence (it is hard to get perfect evidence from 100 years ago!), it does suggest that socio-economic … however, there is no evidence of social class gradients from studies on pandemic influenza mortality in NZ in 1918 … issues the leadership by the new Government is still far from clear. … A century of health inequalities in NZ – new …
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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … quicker, supplemented with expert knowledge elicitation from New Zealand health professionals. Despite the … plane, but they stretch out along a line radiating out from the origin – not the other way. That is, … (HALY – a measure somewhat like a QALY). This figure is from the rough rule of thumb of “GDP per capita” as the …
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  • Faster mortality decline – slower population ageing. How could this be?

    … expectancy is 15 years or less. And we draw on analyses from our own book, The Healthy Country? A History of Life and … with the onset of significant age-related disabilities. From this angle, it is apparent circumstances have changed … these scenarios to the German population, rolling forward from 2013 to 2030 and 2050 and, and this is the innovative …
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  • “Nudging” to improve QR scanning and mask wearing to protect us all during a pandemic

    … and then management of any COVID-19 cases arising from border system failures. Within the community, high QR … the size of plates in restaurants by 5cm, which reduced food waste by 22%, and turning the Stockholm Metro stairs … and card system used in the UK to indicate an exemption from wearing a mask (e.g., due to an invisible disability). …
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  • Using a fun “Mask Day” at school to promote pandemic protection in the NZ community

    … Organization. Our successful elimination of SARS-CoV-2 from the first stringent lockdown has led to complacency by … a major driver of virus circulation: a recent evaluation from Spain of 61,000 people found that around a third of … to stigmatisation of those wanting to mask [6]. Insights from behavioural science suggests that people perceive an …
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  • A pandemic that won’t go away – as Covid enters its 5th year, NZ needs a realistic strategy

    … certain for antivirals. But growing pandemic complacency from political leaders and the public has changed things. … to the list, given the rising  threat to New Zealand 10 from a global resurgence of the disease. This  integrated … relative deprivation, are less vaccinated, less protected from infection, less tested and less likely to have …
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  • Five Potential Enhancements of Covid-19 Outbreak Control in Aotearoa NZ

    … Territory) while one state (New South Wales) suffers from a severe outbreak. But in contrast to Australian state … that might be needed to be blocked to separate Auckland from Northland or the Waikato). 2) Support faster and more … under Level 4 to produce essential products such as food, but also for the export market). In some of these …
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