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  • Is Euthanasia a health priority for New Zealand at present?

    … This blog discusses what will be needed to operationalise the End of Life Choice Act in the event that it is approved at  referendum. It argues … and others) would need to develop policies addressing how they will respond to requests for medical assistance in …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these symptoms point to damage in the brain and heart. These long-term harms add to the wide range of other reasons for … “routine” responses to the COVID-19 pandemic do not grasp how different this virus is. As this blog post is intended to …
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  • Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?

    … is mixed, and there is substantial uncertainty about long-run cost-effectiveness given the typically short-term … will have potentially (much) larger gains, and due to substantial reductions in obesity-related disease it is … or cost-effective. (But we have some issues with how these interventions were classified in this review in …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … smoke or have recently quit smoking and who participated in the ITC New Zealand project from 2016-2021. The blog … setting out a bold and comprehensive action plan for how the Smokefree 2025 goal could be achieved. Key measures … of smoked tobacco products by permitting these products to be sold only in a small number of specialised stores or …
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  • Health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 response: NZ compared to OECD countries

    … Aotearoa/NZ has achieved the lowest death rate in the OECD from the COVID-19 pandemic, equivalent to around 2000 lives saved compared to the OECD average. With … in relation to the lockdown; 9 10 (ii) the prevention of “long COVID” where long-term illness may occur even in people …
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  • Five Strategic Approaches to Achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal

    … The new NZ Government is to be congratulated for working on an Action Plan towards … bold ‘endgame’ goal” [1]. The goal’s origins were in Māori led advocacy to address the harms that tobacco … is currently developing an Action Plan to mapping out how the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal will be achieved; taking …
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  • Food poverty for NZ teens creating an achievement lag of up to four years

    … is partially explained by the number of students coming to school hungry. For the first time, the PISA study included … time, PISA 2022 student wellbeing data included data on how many teenagers went hungry due to a lack of money for … is not only a social justice imperative, but, in the long term, it will mean fewer resources will be needed to …
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  • Illicit tobacco trade and the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: Arguments and evidence

    … NZ Government has published proposals for an Action Plan to achieve the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal. This blog is one … We examine the extent of the problem in NZ, consider how proposals in the Action Plan could affect the illicit … presenting illicit trade as highly problematic and their long-standing track record of manipulating scientific …
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  • Climate Change and Recent Actions of NZ Political Parties

    … health organisation OraTaiao convened a group of experts to analyse the climate change policies of NZ political party … approach, looking at actual climate related actions taken in the last Parliamentary term (since late 2014). It suggests … asking “What is best for NZ society and the planet in the long-term?” may wish to put weight on the climate change …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … Policy-makers need to know how much of ethnic inequalities in health are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco …
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