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The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review
… (41,000), and the long-term burden of disabilities as suggested by war pension payments to veterans in 1921 … influenza pandemic in 1918, but also for conditions such as meningitis. For civilians, there was the psychological … military personnel leaving for war in 1914 was 8.3 years [5]. Number of wounded personnel 41,262 This total is unlikely …
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The cost burden of excess weight in New Zealand: Sizing up a new report
… decades, obesity prevalence has increased substantially, as have health care costs and population size, so it is very … The costs identified in this report need to be read as costs to society for a societal problem. The children and … up with a range of $2-26 billion. This is a wide range, as might be expected, and I would expect it to be closer to …
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New Zealand doing okay in cancer survival: Results from the largest ever cross-national comparison of cancer survival
… UK; Sweden; USA; and South Korea (same GDP per capita as New Zealand). Figure 1: Five-year relative survival for 5 lower survival cancers in selected countries, 2005-09 … cancer survival), including for treatable cancers such as both adult and childhood leukaemia. Modest to moderate …
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The smokefree policies of political parties: Do they care about people who smoke?
… people less vulnerable to severe Covid-19 infection. 2-5 Decreased household expenditure on tobacco will help those … minimal levels (minimal smoking prevalence often defined as less than 5%) by 2025. 6 Since outlining the goal, … and ‘other restrictions on the supply side, such as a register of approved tobacco retailers.’ New Zealand …
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Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?
… stomach cancer was 3.4 times more common in Māori men and 5.8 times greater in Māori women compared to the … equity impacts, feasibility). Important questions such as “Is H. pylori screening likely to be cost-effective?” and … might cost in NZ. We defined population screening as a serology blood test (or a faecal antigen test) for the …
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The Island Bay cycleway – Terribly important and nothing new
… have been fiercely resisted, on much the same grounds as in Island Bay. Jason Henderson has written an excellent … Bay (or any other specific location). The issue is how we, as a society, negotiate access to resources that are shared … it hasn’t always been like this . There was no such thing as jaywalking in Lower Queen Street in Auckland in the early …
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Beyond unhelpful dichotomies: a co-regulatory approach to protecting children from junk food marketing
… regulation if stakeholders fail to reach certain goals (5). The key here is that legislation is not the only way to … do have ultimate authority to change the rules of the game as you go. Remind groups of this if they are getting … clear. What is the purpose of the policy? If it’s framed as an advertising issue, then industry expertise is needed. …
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Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation
… group of medical students (last week’s NZ Medical Journal [5]) we briefly considered some of the NZ specific literature … total score); in terms of weight loss/smoking cessation as appropriate (45% of the total score); and cultural … apps to recommend for use to support clinical care as well as self-care. Doing this would require both capacity …
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Media release: Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable
… fails to consider wider public health impacts, such as discouraging people from walking and cycling, which are … of pedestrians hit by a vehicle will die, compared to just 5% at 30 km/h, according to Prof Keall. “Road deaths and … The setting of speed limits needs to be considered as part of a larger system, where mobility, road design, …
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A preventable measles epidemic: Lessons for reforming public health in NZ
… the need to take action to raise immunisation coverage [ 5 ]. This failure to act on a public health priority results … 2005. Other splitting of functions seems illogical, such as separating out measles reference testing from the ESR … mount an effective response to large complex issues such as the health effects of climate change [ 10 ], the looming …
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