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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table Series: Prevention versus treatment, voluntary versus mandatory, targeted versus untargeted – can we generalize?

    … from the league table to cautiously explore (for fear of over-generalizing) what approaches might typically … the most health gain and be best value-for-money. In two of the previous blogs in this series we have overviewed the concept of league tables to compare health sector interventions, and …
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  • Charting our way back to normal

    … Trade-offs, allows people to weigh the costs and benefits of different policy responses as Australia rolls out vaccines … as the different health losses and gains across hundreds of scenarios during the vaccine rollout as a way to road test different policy options. It is an updated version of the model that underpins the  Victorian RoadMap , and has …
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  • High regret among people who smoke reinforces strong support for smokefree legislation

    … a policy vacuum that fails to support the aspirations of people who smoke, the vast majority of whom wish to be smokefree. Public support for smokefree … little to earn public trust and much to merit the loss of social acceptability they have experienced. 5 Widespread …
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  • Where do the parties stand? – Introducing our election series

    … choices that impact the long-term health and wellbeing of every New Zealander. These decisions are not confined to the health system but range across all parts of our society. To make an informed decision, voters need to … stand on issues that impact the health and wellbeing of the people. In the lead-up to the election, we will be …
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  • The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality

    … the situation really is, the problems and possible sources of error comparing survival across the ditch (it is not easy … is a major reason. Indeed, Mark Elwood (the senior author of this latest NZMJ paper) has already spoken elsewhere to … improvement has been previously reported by the Ministry of Health , ourselves and others (see North and South Graphic …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: Are they worth investing in?

    … authors by request.  Evaluation findings The summary table of evaluation criteria and provisional assessments is shown. … papers for the programme. 2,3 Preliminary assessments of Value for Investment for Ka Ora, Ka Ako   1. Effectiveness … before the programme. 4 Furthermore, lunches meet Ministry of Health nutritional guidelines and provide more than 33% of …
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  • Thoughts on NZ Adopting an Aussie Community Health Programme … and Forthcoming Nutrition Policy Events

    … New Zealand”. This blog post gives a high level overview of this initiative and anticipates a series of four forthcoming blog posts here at Public Health Expert. … physical activity and smoking. Actually, large chunks of it sound like the old Health Eating – Healthy Action …
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  • New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective

    … A New Zealand randomized trial of e-cigarettes just published in the prestigious Lancet … significant difference in abstinence at 6 months.   21 out of 289 people randomised to e-cigarettes were abstinent at six months, or 7.3%.  This compares to 17 out of 295 people randomised to nicotine patches, or 5.8%.  The …
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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … will need to address. Social norms govern many aspects of our everyday lives by defining what practices we view as … Similarly, social norms mean smoking with a group of workmates will be a very different experience to smoking … latter products at young never-smokers has seen youth vaping escalate and the overall proportion of young nicotine …
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  • The 5000 annual deaths caused by smoking also matter

    … Summary Every year we reflect on the tragic loss of life caused by road accidents yet pay almost no attention to the equally tragic loss of life caused by the tobacco industry, whose products kill … way on the equally tragic – and equally avoidable – loss of life caused by smoking ( an estimated 5000 people every …
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