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  • New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective

    … Lancet journal has been touted in the media as showing how good e-cigarettes are for people wanting to quit smoking.  This is overstating the study findings. And … It might include regulating the removal of nicotine from cigarettes to reduce their addictiveness.  It might …
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  • Media release: Our fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care

    … the benefits of vaccination and the value of measures to help reduce transmission. Professor Baker and other public health experts from the University of Otago look at the numbers in the … Centre . These data indicate there could be up to 12,000 hospitalisations and more than 1,000 deaths this …
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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … in Brisbane this week, teaching epidemiological methods to improve the quality and causal inference of our research – … the ratio of things like omega 3 to omega 6 fats; how high the percentage of saturated fat is in the diet – it … also include lots of salt).  Actually, not that different from those well-known dietary experts (!) Morgan and Simmons …
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  • Why don’t we make rental housing safer?

    … enforce safety for rental housing when the evidence points to cost-effective interventions? We unpack the narrative … a handrail on stairs that have been constructed to allow ‘safe access from one level to another’, as well as adequate lighting. …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … published in last Friday’s NZ Medical Journal that tried to answer that question from a NZ public health perspective. In this blog we discuss … are the two leading risk factors leading to health loss [1]. The key ways to address these are …
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  • Ventilation in NZ schools during the Omicron wave – results from a preliminary study

    … cases in children increasing exponentially, 1 2 leading to large numbers of child hospitalisations, including ICU … reduces the number of virus particles available to infect a person . In addition to ventilation, masks … classroom structure. Figure 1 demonstrates CO 2 levels from two primary school classrooms (at the same school) of …
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  • Highly variable cost-effectiveness with disease characteristics and age: Herceptin as a Case Study

    … targets that receptor. PHARMAC’s decision in 2006-2008 to fund the nine-week course of Herceptin rather than the … as a starting-point, we chose to ask a deeper question: how does the cost-effectiveness of Herceptin vary by type … – the smaller the envelope of potential health gain from treatment. So how did the cost-effectiveness of …
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  • Likely rise in invasive strep infections in NZ requires a strategy

    … notifiable would support immediate public health actions to control disease spread and provide a robust basis for effective surveillance to identify changes in iGAS incidence and distribution. Group … disease) . Globally more than 18 million people suffer from serious GAS disease with an associated 500,000 deaths …
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  • Aotearoa’s perinatal and maternal death rates remain inequitable and unjust

    … perinatal mortality over the years of 2006-2021 according to the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee’s … continue in perinatal and maternal outcomes relating to demographic and socioeconomic factors, including ethnicity … Since 2006, data has been collected on every fetal death from 20 weeks’ gestation (or over 400g if gestation is …
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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … a steep decline in the mental wellbeing of youth. Findings from New Zealand-specific research paint a similar picture.  … burden on young adults. We also recommend commitment to training and supporting more youth-friendly clinicians, … and local evidence offers us clear examples of how we can listen to young people’s voices in designing …
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