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Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?
… at Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred out by Google’s algorithm for … “Tobacco Control”. In this blog we briefly consider some of the research possibilities of this tool of relevance to public health. Using Google …
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Why are some preventable cancer deaths in Māori and Pacific peoples increasing?
… as some favourable trends. In this blog we discuss some of the key findings of this research and what the options are for NZ society to … journal BMC Cancer. The results show a changing pattern of ethnic inequalities in cancer in New Zealand. 1 For every …
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How much revenue would a New Zealand sugary drink tax raise? And how might be best to do it?
… New Zealand towards adopting a sugary drink tax. As part of the policy briefing prepared for this FIZZ Symposium, we … UK will implement a tiered levy based on the sugar content of drinks on the beverage industry (more on this at the end of this blog). For a general background on sugary drink …
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Media release: What can we do to reduce the number of babies dying before, during or soon after birth?
… than 700 fetal and neonatal deaths in 2021, that’s a rate of 11.2 per 1000 births according to the Perinatal and … prevention, optimisation and preparation in the management of preterm birth would lower neonatal and perinatal mortality, especially if equity of outcomes is addressed. Preterm birth is one of the leading …
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Patterns of declining smoking in NZ – But more action needed by the New Government
… recent ongoing declines in smoking, with a graph below of the trends since 2012 (tabulated data in the Appendix). … cigarette sales data. We plan to do more detailed analyses of these trends and update our past work [1] when next year’s … age groups. This suggests that a relatively important part of the reduced smoking prevalence is due to reduced uptake …
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Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?
… the results and put the findings in a wider context of how New Zealand might reach its Smokefree 2025 goal. … health’ research stream have estimated the health effects of access to features of the built environment, including access to: alcohol …
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Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking
… NZ has some key barriers to overcome to make the best use of that data – most importantly, data systems infrastructure … world leaders in many ways, with the IDI gaining a range of international interest from other governments wishing to … with tortuous application processes. Here is the vision of the Virtual Health Information Network : To create and …
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Is Keytruda for advanced melanoma cost-effective? Applying the BODE3 rapid cost effectiveness calculator
… with advanced melanoma. The evidence base consists of trials published in the major journals: NEJM , Lancet and … delay (substantially) disease progression in about a third of patients. There is also about a third lower mortality … funded in NZ either). The evidence on the effectiveness of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) is mostly for patients either …
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Media release: Poverty and disadvantage fuel NZ’s rising rates of dementia
… is a factor fuelling Aotearoa New Zealand’s soaring rates of dementia. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, researchers reveal the risk of developing dementia is 60% higher for people living in the most deprived areas of NZ compared to those in the least deprived areas. Dr …
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Alcohol and suicide: The facts
… international evidence. There is a well-established body of research from New Zealand and overseas that clearly links … increased suicide risk. This Briefing provides a summary of key evidence in response to mental health campaigner, Mike … are associated with subsequent development of depressive symptoms. 6 7 Although the causal relationships are complex …
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