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  • Home modification to reduce falls – appears cost-effective in NZ

    … [ 2 ]. So we took a model that we had previously built [ 3 ], and made some enhancements, along with adapting it to a … cost was estimated at $8.44 million (95% UI: $663 to $14.3 million). The cost-effectiveness was very favourable at … NZ health system. (Nevertheless, we note that other BODE 3 work shows that many health sector interventions which are …
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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: how could this be achieved and what evidence supports the NZ Government’s proposals?

    … [1, 2], increased smoking among established smokers [3], and lower odds of quitting [4-6]. Residents of socially … stores, or pharmacies. Modelling studies from the BODE 3 Programme (University of Otago) indicate that restricting … modelling studies for NZ (all using the same BODE 3 tobacco model, with lifetime benefits and cost-savings, …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Two Injury Prevention Strategies to Reduce Pressure on the Health System

    … costs of treating transport injuries (reduced by NZ$3.6 million; 95% uncertainty interval [UI]: $0.88 million to …
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  • Taxing tobacco in NZ: What we know and what could be next

    … youth are particularly sensitive to high tobacco prices (3). However, these trends are also likely to be partly due to … a 2.6% price increase for a budget brand relative to a 8.3% price in a premium brand (based on a NZ survey of 448 … person from higher tobacco taxes have been estimated to be 3.7 times greater for Māori compared to non-Māori (5). But to …
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  • Preventing diabetes: What does the latest modelling evidence tell us about health gains and cost savings?

    … increased death rates and high morbidity (ie, 3% of all illness, disability and premature mortality in 2006 [3]). Indeed, diabetes is one of the main causes of blindness, … that there would be 150,000 HALYs gained, and over NZ$3 billion saved in health system costs. Additionally, per …
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  • Tobacco industry ‘transformation’ – more smoke and mirrors?

    … and cause delays in  effective regulatory actions . 3 4 Hence, independent and critical assessment of tobacco … cigarette sales which has occurred since 2012 (see figure 3). The current trajectory will not come close to eliminating sales within five years. Figure 3: Global and PMI cigarette sales 2012-19 with linear …
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  • Preparing for Omicron: A proactive Government response is urgently needed to minimise harms

    … in cases being detected at the border and in MIQ (Figure 3). We have now had two known case introductions (including a … have so far avoided sustained local transmission. Figure 3: New Zealand’s 7-day average of Covid-19 cases at the …  It also has a shorter median incubation period of 3 days . Consequently, it is causing explosive outbreaks in …
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  • Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?

    … market in the USA and many South Asian countries. 1 3 In contrast, NZ has disallowed the sale of oral tobacco … 7 Examples of product presentation are shown in Figure 3.  Figure 2: Tobacco-free nicotine pouches (credit: snubie.com )                    Figure 3: Oral nicotine flavours and marketing, pouches (left) and …
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  • The allure of a Virtual Supermarket for public health nutrition research

    … products (I can have chocolate after I eat my broccoli) [3,4]. Now, the question is how to study taxing effects … Virtual Supermarket comes in The Virtual Supermarket is a 3-D computer simulation of a real supermarket. It has images … you would normally find in a supermarket located on 3-D shelves. People can navigate their trolley around the …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 1)

    … Have the treatment advances in breast cancer in the last 3 decades meant that any advantage of screening (early detection) is now no longer relevant? 3. What is the amount of over-diagnosis (that is, the extra … (2), the  Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (3) and the UK Independent Review (4). These organisations all …
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