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Happiness surveys, & can health sector interventions improve well-being?
… countries, two European countries (Netherlands and Switzerland) and Canada. The source of the New Zealand data is the … “prevention” rather than “care.” Becoming ill, physically or mentally, can reduce happiness significantly and in some …
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From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for COVID-19
… to its pandemic modellers, public health officials and politicians – we have avoided the explosive beginning of … (much) in the past week. If those cases start to track up, and double quicker than every eight days or so, the rest of this opinion article should be dispatched …
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The allure of a Virtual Supermarket for public health nutrition research
… When we first published on the Virtual Supermarket topic [1], there were highly variable reactions ranging from people … at some recent research on this virtual reality approach and attempt to answer the question – what is the allure of a … in the form of fat tax, sugar tax, soft drink tax or similar policy. The idea behind these taxes is simple and …
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Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?
… Choice Act. The choice is distorted towards aid in dying and away from palliative care. In this blog I will describe … be entitled to have the claim satisfied (whether directly or indirectly) under any other arrangement with the Ministry, … a District Health Board, or any other government agency 1 ; iii. charge the person receiving assisted dying services …
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What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.
… But what would it take in the way of reductions in uptake (or initiation), and/or increases in cessation rates, to achieve this goal? We … international journal Tobacco Control, led by Tak Ikeda and a presentation that he will also give at the conference …
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Media release: A call to make Invasive Group A Strep notifiable in New Zealand
… in severe infections involving group A streptococcus and they are calling for it to be made a notifiable condition … A streptococcus (GAS) is a common cause of sore throats and skin infections in children but in rare cases the … is patchy in Aotearoa. We know it doubled between 2002 and 2016 to 9 infections per 100,000 people. The numbers are …
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New Zealand doing okay in cancer survival: Results from the largest ever cross-national comparison of cancer survival
… been published for 10 cancer sites, in an exhaustive and thorough combined analysis (CONCORD-2). Never before has … but okay. We are usually worse than the country we love (or hate?) to compare ourselves with, Australia. Conversely, … but neither is it doing too badly. The Concord study (1) gives five year relative survival estimates for 11 …
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That old chestnut again – does any alcohol consumption reduce cardiovascular disease risk? More evidence for “no”.
… taxation even more justified. In this blog, we explain and critique this latest study in the British Medical … (a relative risk of 0.98, 95% confidence interval 0.90 to 1.07), but did show an association among drinkers (0.86, 0.78 … nothing else. Thus, the genetic variable has no influence or association with ‘outcome phenotype’ (e.g. coronary heart …
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Health system costs in NZ: variation by sex, age & proximity to death
… published on NZ health system cost estimates by sex, age and proximity to death. Such work is only possible due to … understand whether this is due to costs proximal to death or due to heavy burden of disease at older ages we used … 40–44 years, when the costs increase almost 5 fold from $1,025 to $5,600. Interestingly, this pattern is consistent …
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Fast-track Approvals Bill a threat to public health, warn researchers
… track, circumventing legal protections for the environment and threatening public health. In the latest Briefing from … researchers highlight the connection between environmental and human health and review Ministers’ comments to identify … more frequent and intense flooding. “It’s not appropriate or responsible for a Bill to allow a small number of …
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