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The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality
… room to improve in our health sector. This blog we canvass how bad (or good) the situation really is, the problems and possible sources of error comparing survival across the ditch (it is not easy … comparisons of cancer statistics For example, each country needs to be capturing cancer diagnoses with …
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Charting our way back to normal
… A new web tool, COVID-19 Pandemic Trade-offs, allows people to weigh the costs and benefits of different policy responses as Australia rolls out vaccines … from Pursuit The burning COVID-19 question this year is – “When can we get back to normal?” Or more …
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Media release: A new voice to boost New Zealand’s response to major public health challenges
… Health Communication Centre (PHCC) will boost the impact of research to improve health and equity in Aotearoa New … that success. “At the same time, we are lagging behind many high-income countries in some areas such as infant … of articles on key public health issues this election year. They will look at areas such as planning for the long …
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Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?
… are available, it is pertinent to ask – what is HTV, how could it be adapted for New Zealand, and will it work? … Australia’s one in four), it is steadily increasing (while many OECD countries, including the US, are flattening or … always been part of traditional health promotion, training people to predominantly ‘see and think’ systems and work ‘in …
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Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?
… at Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred out by Google’s algorithm for … “Tobacco Control”. In this blog we briefly consider some of the research possibilities of this tool of relevance to … of building features that reflect guidelines for people with disabilities (ie, as per the Americans with …
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Introducing the Public Health Solutions Blog Series
… one author put it “the rules of engagement” underpinning how the health system works have changed . Covid-19 has … or train our way out of this. Health professionals take many years to train and almost every high-income country is … seemed to reduce in Māori (but not non-Māori/non-Pacific people) during the 2020 lockdown. This is a grim …
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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 … has just taken the bull by the horns, and announced a two-year phase in period for a front-of-pack star labelling … innovative, and with options? We are likely to see many Australasian food products with a star label as per the …
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What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.
… Tony Blakely The New Zealand Government has a goal of a Smokefree Nation by 2025, often interpreted as a smoking … Essentially, 10% of non-Māori smokers need to quit each year to achieve 5% smoking prevalence by 2025 for … far reaching, and markedly drive up cessation How can we do it? One possibility comes from work from the …
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Media release: International experts say abandoning denicotinised cigarettes will cost lives
… say abandoning denicotinised cigarettes in the repeal of the smokefree legislation in Aotearoa New Zealand will … risks seeing around 5000 New Zealanders continue to die every year from smoking and a persistence of associated … satisfaction with smoking, and dependence, while helping people quit. Modelling studies also show denicotinisation …
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Proposed Emissions Reduction Plan: A weak response to a weak target
… emissions trading and technological advances, the latter of which are highly speculative and uncertain. Even if the … the international community’s efforts to reduce the impact of climate change. 1 The NDC, endorsed by successive NZ … and from 2030 for the petrochemical industry. But CCS is many times more costly than reducing emissions in the first …
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