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  • Advance Care Planning – good for patient care and better use of health dollars?

    … Dr Ben Gray Advance Care Planning (or ACP) is the process of thinking about, talking about and planning for … clinically focussed, individual health care process, so what relevance has it got for Public Health? Actually a lot. … at doing “informed consent” around the end of life. There are two important reasons for this. The first is well …
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  • Rising congenital syphilis in Aotearoa New Zealand needs a strong response

    … Summary The global resurgence of syphilis is affecting Aotearoa New … and their whānau. 1 Cases in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) are increasing, but with adequate screening and treatment; they can be prevented. What is congenital syphilis? Congenital syphilis results from …
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  • Health system costs in NZ: variation by sex, age & proximity to death

    … costs – not surprisingly – vary markedly by age, and also are highly correlated with expected morbidity by age. Second, there is much less variability by age for costs in the last year of life – indeed, the ‘costs of dying’ peak at … ages in the future as mortality rates fall. We examined what impact this would have on future projections (Table 1). …
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  • Unaffordable home heating increases risk of severe mental distress

    … Summary The cost-of-living crisis is placing more people at risk of … poverty (also known as energy hardship in Aotearoa 4 ), are caused by factors such as poor building quality, energy … it can have a negative impact on mental health as well. What does the latest research say? A new study from the UK 6 …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey

    … Summary More New Zealanders than ever are vaping according to the latest data from the New Zealand Health Survey released … using nicotine products, to switch completely to vaping. What is new in this Briefing The prevalence of current and …
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  • Do Aotearoa’s new vaping regulations go far enough?

    … disposable vapes, and recognise these devices have become the product of choice among rangatahi. The regulations also … vapes, though did not outline the new limits, which are currently set at 50mg/ml, more than twice the … from products that will bring them no benefits.   What is new in this Briefing New vaping regulations that will …
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  • The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality

    … Today Alafeishat and colleagues have published a paper in the NZ Medical Journal showing that New Zealand has higher … higher incidence for most sites. This suggests that there are differences in cancer survival, which appear to be … New Zealand cancer survival statistics. Great. But what would be really useful is if New Zealand contributes to …
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  • What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.

    … Professor Tony Blakely The New Zealand Government has a goal of a Smokefree Nation … Smokefree Oceania Conference in Auckland next week.  But what would it take in the way of reductions in uptake (or … for Māori.  We concluded that changes in initiation rates are not as important as changes in cessation rates to achieve …
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  • Bowel cancer screening – An interesting new US study and thoughts about the NZ situation

    … published in a top US journal (JAMA). We discuss the cost-effectiveness of such screening and consider the … cancer (CRC)  screening, and these preliminary results are impressive. FOBT CRC screening appears highly … gained) $27,200 $22,300 $19,600 $18,100 $16,100 So what are the implications for New Zealand? Bowel cancer …
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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … smoking prevalence has declined since its peak in the 1960s, after the serious health risks it poses became … govern many aspects of our everyday lives by defining what practices we view as acceptable (or not) and how we feel … smoking epidemic, but also outlined how tobacco companies are already positioning themselves to present their ideas and …
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