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  • Market deregulation → ↑ fast food consumption → ↑ obesity. Clever international study that includes NZ data

    … the Bulletin of the World Health Organization has analyzed how changes in fast food transactions per capita within 25 … per year was exactly that observed for NZ during the 1999 to 2008 period covered by this study. The study also suggests … covered by safety regulations (from car design to fire safe children’s pajamas)?  This might make sense – given we …
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  • Does change in income and deprivation change your smoking risk? Yes, but in different directions.

    … knows that lower socioeconomic groups are more likely to smoke.  But why?  Is it because of things like less … people followed over several years.  We found that moving from a neighbourhood with the least deprived fifth of New … tease out causation from correlation, because it tracked how the smoking behaviours of 11,000 Kiwis changed when their …
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  • Casting a long shadow: Infection drives stomach cancer inequalities in Māori and Pacific peoples

    … our recently published study that shows that infection from the bacteria Helicobacter pylori is the major driver of … discuss a possible next step which could be for one DHB to pilot a ‘test and treat’ screening programme that seems … ). This new study has substantial implications for how we might address excess stomach cancer deaths by …
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  • Bowel cancer screening – An interesting new US study and thoughts about the NZ situation

    … and therefore lowering incidence rates. (Compare this to breast cancer screening where (mostly) one is trying to detect cancer and treat it earlier). The best way to … bowel cancer incidence was reduced by a staggering 63% from 34.2 to 12.5 tumours per 1000 people. Even with the …
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  • Mobile phone use while driving: Do we need smartcars that turn off smartphones?

    … This blog discusses recent research and suggest ways to make further progress on reducing this persisting hazard. … law. Although international data are somewhat mixed as to how effective such laws around mobile phone use by drivers … be a requirement that all new cars imported into NZ (eg, from the year 2018) could be required to have technology that …
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  • Public Health Communication Centre strategic outline

    … Our purpose To effectively communicate public health research evidence in … and Departments, and during legislative process on how to protect and improve public health in New Zealand. … Evidence-Based; Fiercely Independent; Culturally Safe; Solution focussed About the Centre The Public Health …
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  • Media release: Money down the drain - The high cost of leaking water pipes

    … the country upwards of $122 million a year according to public health researchers. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre , University of … fundamental components of good public health – access to safe drinking water – and costs councils, communities, and …
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  • Media release: Unaffordable home heating increases risk of severe mental distress

    … Finding yourself unable to adequately heat your home can not only lead to poor physical health but can also increase the risk of … New Zealand. Dr O’Sullivan says a UK study using data from a large longitudinal study focused on people who at one …
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  • Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study

    … published a modelling study on exercise programmes in NZ to prevent falls in older people. This work suggests that … and cost the least. This programme involves instructions from a nurse specialist with five home visits and was assumed … showed similar health gains and cost-effectiveness. How does these results compare with other interventions? …
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  • Severe domestic squalor in Aotearoa New Zealand: A preliminary survey

    … and unhygienic that most people would consider the house to be unsuitable for human occupation. 1  An extreme example … around the floors, and the stench emanating is unbearable to all but the occupant, who is blissfully unconcerned by the … on best practice service delivery based on the feedback from respondents. Our survey Methods are detailed in the …
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