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  • The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not

    … Minister has repeatedly said the Government is committed to addressing the tobacco epidemic and that it will follow … NZ’s approach, which has already inspired global change . How much harm will this decision cause? Every year, 5000 New … as ‘vile’, ‘disgusting’ and ‘feral’, offer an appealing long-term alternative to denicotinised tobacco. 10 Evidence …
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  • Media release: Long Covid could be costing NZ $2 billion a year in lost productivity: Experts urge preventive action

    … Long Covid could be costing the economy of Aotearoa New … economy approximately AU$9.6 billion, equivalent to 0.5% of Australia’s GDP. And that’s a conservative … for policymakers to make informed decisions about how to efficiently and equitably protect New Zealanders from …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … loss and smoking cessation well-designed? We were involved in a study published in last Friday’s NZ Medical Journal that tried to answer that question from a NZ public health perspective. … apps are most important for effectiveness and maintaining long-term use. Of note is that some official endorsement of …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Simple transport system changes could quickly relieve the crisis in our hospitals

    … This blog looks at solutions in the transport sector: low traffic neighbourhoods, creating … series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. Image by Alistair … single neighbourhood LTN, not even as a trial to evaluate how well they work here.   Creating comprehensive pop-up …
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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 … at the time, but caused public controversy. To cut a long story short: it gave rise to a legal challenge, a High … as a starting-point, we chose to ask a deeper question: how does the cost-effectiveness of Herceptin vary by type …
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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … with navigating patients through their care – appears to be cost effective, at least for stage III colon cancer . … for care coordination nurses.  This all seems sensible, in that the i mmediate and net cost of cancer care … the NZ Medical Journal. But care cordiantors will change how patients are treated, and therefore not only change …
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  • NZ’s smart use of big data: Employment & income impacts of selected health conditions

    … is making rapid strides in the smart use of big data to provide better health information for decision-makers. … conditions There is growing international interest in how health conditions might impact on productivity gains (via … and wealth available to individuals, but also reduce their long term financial capacity by reducing their savings” (3). …
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  • “Appetite for Destruction”: A new book with attitude – but also strong science

    … of a stirrer of public debate.  Think domestic cat control to save birds . Think “Big Kahuna” on social policy. And … tomorrow, the book reviews aspects of the history of food, how the current foodscape is an amazing success story of capitalism (high energy, long shelf life, ‘fake food’ cheaply available wherever you …
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  • New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective

    … Zealand randomized trial of e-cigarettes just published in the prestigious 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 …
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  • Food taxes and subsidies will probably protect health & reduce inequalities – but the devil is in the detail

    … Mhurchu Research teams we lead have published two papers in the last few weeks on food taxes and subsidies – both of … 20-odd food groups, low-income people and Māori tended to change their consumption of foods more in response to … We think our SPEND price elasticities are not too bad for how consumption of, say, cheese changes when you change the …
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