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Public Health Solutions Series: Protecting the healthcare system: a strategic approach to reducing infectious disease impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand
… education, work, and social settings. This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective … in many ways the pandemic is simply a larger-scale version of the endemic and epidemic infectious diseases that exact a high toll of illness and death in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) every year …
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Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls
… protect health – even at the modest 47% coverage. Because of slightly higher coverage for Māori girls, and higher … sexually transmitted viruses. They can cause several types of cancer (such as cancers of the cervix, anus, and oropharynx) and conditions like …
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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 … a whole. Health is not just about hospitals and doctors, what matters even more are the building blocks of good … where political parties stand on important issues, and what they intend to do to improve the lives of New …
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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 … fair to the authors, overstating their conclusions too. So what did the study find? No statistically significant … significant differences in the primary study outcome. What Bullen and colleagues do conclude, and I agree with, is …
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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 … morbidity and/or mortality. Our own interpretation of what the model suggests is that: The likelihood of future … an exact ‘sweet spot’ that keeps infections low, but does not see us spend too much time in strict lockdowns, is …
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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 … New Zealand cancer survival statistics. Great. But what would be really useful is if New Zealand contributes to … facilitate the same comparisons for cancer survival. What are the key implications of Elwood’s research for cancer …
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Care coordination for cancer cost-effective
… for “better and faster” services for cancer patients, of which $16 million dollars was for care coordination … all seems sensible, in that the i mmediate and net cost of cancer care coordinators may be negligible – putting in … a powerpoint presentation. But this is just a start. What about the costs and effects and cost-effectiveness for …
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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 acceptable (or not) and how we feel … products. Second, ensure (as Aotearoa NZ’s Action Plan does) that communities most harmed by tobacco are empowered …
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FoodSwitch. Smartphone consumers beat industry to better labeling
… to understand. Our colleagues at the National Institute of Health and Innovation (NIHI), University of Auckland, are leading the way. They have just launched … better. Healthier option to ‘switch’ to for the same type of product (e.g. similar cereals, only healthier). You can …
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Action needed to halt New Zealand’s obesity epidemic: Themes from Big Food Symposium
… initiative recently announced by the Minister of Health, they stress the critical need to focus on upstream … and possibly continue to climb. This blog explores some of these issues in more detail. The cost of overweight and obesity to the nation was estimated at $8 …
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