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  • Advance Care Planning – good for patient care and better use of health dollars?

    … will be exacerbated as the baby boomers die. Expenditure on dying people is going to rise. However Advanced Care … admitted to hospital with a chest infection. I visited her on Monday afternoon. I saw her in her 4 bedded cubicle and … by Botha et al (1). The health sector is continually under financial pressure with endless calls for more …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could making tobacco products available only through community pharmacies help us get there?

    … for Māori. 2 3 Despite their enormous adverse impact on health and contribution to health disparities, tobacco … disparities in smoking. However, the modelling may have under-estimated policy benefits as it did not take into … preliminary evidence from just one NZ city that currently under half of pharmacists would be willing to provide tobacco …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … upgrading the Alert Level system with a particular focus on mask use, making the Covid Tracer App compulsory for high … The risks of not taking action include prolonged periods under lockdown, extended closure of the Trans-Tasman bubble, … risk. A review around optimising mask type and mask use on Trans-Tasman flights could also be performed. Finally, …
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  • Why are some preventable cancer deaths in Māori and Pacific peoples increasing?

    … cancers. We have just published an update on cancer mortality inequalities, from the New Zealand Census … cervical cancer incidence inequalities declined (based on cancer registrations). Also lung cancer rates appear to … of absolute ethnic inequalities in cancer incidence (based on cancer registrations) by major contributing cancer types, …
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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … smoking is a personal choice. In this blog, we expand on research exploring smoking’s trajectory and declining … grew; government public health measures, including bans on tobacco marketing, began marking tobacco as an abnormal … and prevalence by launching extraordinary attacks on public health researchers and promoting “innovations” such …
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  • What can Aotearoa NZ learn from Australia’s new vaping policies?

    … among older age groups . The NZ Government has consulted on measures to tighten existing regulations, including … measures, NZ should adopt a stronger approach, focus on protecting young people, and disallow the importation and … young people. The NZ Ministry of Health did not consult on this measure but we support its introduction, given …
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  • Ready or not? Pandemic preparedness index and implications for NZ

    … Evaluation. Aotearoa New Zealand — which ranks 13th on the index— can continue to reduce its vulnerability to … task. Compounding this is the risk that the new WHO treaty on future pandemics is being watered down and the design of … better quality data, which biased analysis. 4 New research on the GHS Index A paper just published in the journal BMJ …
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  • What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.

    … future – the black lines in the figures below.  Bad news: under BAU non-Māori smoking prevalence would only get to 10% … does not really matter too much.  So focus instead on the cessation rates.  The green lines are for 5% annual … and support to smokers. … What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation. …
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  • Media release: Councils encouraged to curb alcohol availability in new policy environment

    … alcohol availability. The impact will now depend more on councils’ willingness to back their communities and the … $9.1 billion annually, with disproportionate effects on Māori, who are twice as likely to die from alcohol-related … In the absence of meaningful national restrictions on alcohol availability, LAPs provide the only opportunity to …
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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … [2]. The method used by the GHSI is intentionally based on published and publicly available data sources, thereby … appropriate financing [1]. The main finding of the GHSI Report is that collectively international preparedness is … of greater concern as they indicate a long-term pattern of under-investment. NZ is one of the only high-income countries …
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