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  • What does the novel coronavirus epidemic mean for New Zealand?

    … Pacific neighbours. The big questions we need to answer By definition, new infectious diseases are an unknown quantity. … WHO. Under the IHR all WHO members are required to rapidly report potential emerging health threats such as this novel … which is clearly the situation here. China was quick to report this new coronavirus and has been reasonably …
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  • Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study

    … this approach (home-based or group-based exercise) is good value for money for the NZ Government. In this blog we … uncertainty interval [UI]: 22,300 to 74,400). In terms of “value-for-money”, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio …
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  • NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?

    … inequalities (another goal of the strategy) and be best value for money (yet another goal of the strategy). We … themes (1. People powered, 2. Closer to home, 3. Value and high performance, 4. One team, 5. Smart system), … is a function of the modelling, so to try and make for a ‘fair’ comparison, we scaled up the treatment-type (and HPV …
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  • Illicit tobacco trade and the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: Arguments and evidence

    … appears to be the case in NZ also. For example, a 2010 report commissioned by British American Tobacco claimed … 3.3% of tobacco consumption in NZ in 2009. A 2016 report commissioned by Philip Morris International (PMI) put … simply take their arguments about illicit trade at face value.  The NZ Government’s expectations of the impact the …
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  • Long COVID: a crucial reason for vax, mask, and distance

    … we discuss the impact of vaccination on long COVID. Definition of Long Covid As noted above, the scope of … diagnosis with COVID-19 were 7-10 times less likely to report two or more long-COVID symptoms than unvaccinated … Almost 2 million individuals were followed using the US FAIR Health database of healthcare claim records 22 . Of …
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  • Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research

    … In this blog post we report on a new study from the BODE 3 Programme that suggests … prefer them, based on research that measured the hedonic value of dietary sodium [ 2 ]. Potassium salts, which are … counselling by dietitians which was found to be good value for the money invested, but just not to the point of …
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  • The case for denicotinising tobacco in Aotearoa NZ remains strong: response to online critique

    … study, with co-authors from the University of Otago, was a report in January 2022 to the Ministry. The second output, … (described below) were very similar to those in the report submitted to the Ministry. Further outputs that focus … Central to this process is transparency and engaging in fair and respectful critique with a focus on extending the …
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  • What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes and public health

    … for a can of coke. In the Pacific this was the highest value of SSB tax known to date. The effectiveness of SSB … target SSB volume or sugar content (rather than just value)? – The tax was applied by volume of beverage. This is … reduced hospitalisation and other costs. A recent McKinsey report on NCDs, outlines that although evidence may be sparse …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table Series: Prevention versus treatment, voluntary versus mandatory, targeted versus untargeted – can we generalize?

    … might typically generate the most health gain and be best value-for-money. In two of the previous blogs in this series … big health gains relatively quickly), and society tends to value health gains closer in time (that’s why discounting is …
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  • The need for an expanded national smokefree law – just got more critical

    … judge was that this Calculator was inconsistent with the definition of an “open area” under the Smoke-free … Act has a contradiction between its purpose and the definition of “internal areas”. The purpose of the section of … where smoking can and can’t be permitted – so they can report when the law is being breached. It was a design fault …
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