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  • NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?

    … IT systems and individual-level actions, and drifts away from population-level prevention activities that would have … to tackle the elephants in the room (sugary foods, the Food Industry, tobacco) when the most important policy … now giving a relative comparison of QALY gains. The gains from interventions such as population-wide salt reduction and …
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  • Communicating public health evidence – a successful first year for the PHCC

    … (NZ). Its independence is supported by generous funding from the philanthropic Gama foundation, and hosting by the … 12 months have featured expert analysis and commentary from leading public health researchers and practitioners … against public health interests in many areas including food and alcohol policy, environmental protection and …
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  • Health system costs in NZ: variation by sex, age & proximity to death

    … these missing costs would change the pattern observed from the HealthTracker data. For example, it is clear that … of proximity to death” varied approximately 10-fold from $535 for 10–14 year olds (sexes combined) to $5,600 for … year olds. The rapid increase in costs starts occurring from the age-group 40–44 years, when the costs increase …
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  • Media release: A call for strong leadership to reduce NZ’s dangerously high antibiotic use

    … to an infectious disease physician. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, Associate … decisively will result in increased death and disability from untreatable bacterial infections in the coming decades. … the treated person results in an increased risk of spread from the treated person to other people with whom they come …
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  • Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory

    … not being protected by the Guidelines. Based on evidence from our own and other research, our He Kāinga Oranga / Housing and Health research team supports calls from consumer advocates for the Electricity Authority to make … when it comes to practices around disconnection from electricity and managing supply to medically dependent …
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  • Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?

    … therapy, we used a one-third reduction in stomach cancer from a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (4). We … of population screen and treat programmes. RCT findings from screening programmes already set up in other countries … peoples in NZ (and potentially also for recent immigrants from high prevalence countries). A pilot could be designed to …
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  • Alcohol-related harms now available on demand

    … through online on-demand delivery – within two hours from ordering. This Briefing summarises the evidence for … entry requirement, however the former dropped to 57% for food and alcohol services and 50% for alcohol and cigarette … services can be licensed in different jurisdictions from where they provide services. 1 Health policy experts …
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  • Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones

    … 2 delayed deaths) and another 6 deaths around the country from the storm. 14 The path of the cyclone could have been worse: The damage from Gabrielle could have been much worse if Auckland had … helping with clean-up efforts, and local marae providing food and accommodation for evacuees etc. These favourable …
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  • Ventilation in NZ schools during the Omicron wave – results from a preliminary study

    … classroom structure. Figure 1 demonstrates CO 2 levels from two primary school classrooms (at the same school) of … high=561ppm). Figure 3. School 4 – CO 2 levels from indoor physical education classes in a high school gym … in CO 2 levels by activity type. Conclusions Findings from this preliminary study show that classrooms (and gyms) …
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  • Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected

    … pollution Over 2,000 people die each year in NZ from traffic-related air pollution. 4 The optimum speed for … do not occur, concerns about speeds can prevent people from walking and cycling in their neighbourhoods. If more … and deaths, and noise and air pollution. Preventing people from walking and cycling contributes to poor health through …
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