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Food and beverage taxes for a healthier diet: The Pacific experience
… extending free healthy school lunches and/or free dental care. The growing impact of the food environment on chronic … free healthy school lunches programme, funding free dental care for those aged 18 and over (perhaps initially for those …
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A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development
… first key concept is shown below: 1 : Relationships are a Primary Determinant of Māori Wellbeing Physical Environment … and the built environment: 1) Relationships as the primary determinant of wellbeing; 2) Wairuatanga …
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Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further
… Māori relative to non-Māori (25-27). CVD risk screening in primary care is high, albeit with some ethnic inequality for Māori vs … treatment options. But further improvements in diabetes care may also be a likely fertile area for progress here. The …
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Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation
… apps to recommend for use to support clinical care as well as self-care. Doing this would require both capacity and resources – … efficient integration between providers. Patient-centred care means that the patient should also be at the centre and …
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NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?
… and tobacco tax dwarf those for Herceptin and cancer care coordinators. (To put these numbers in perspective, the … health expenditure to move to other areas (e.g. dementia care). But from an economic perspective, a perspective … by age and receptor subtype – paper under review.) Cancer care coordinators might be deemed a good buy, and this is …
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A Statue of Merit: Dr Margaret Cruickshank and the 1918 influenza pandemic
… Cruikshank was one of those heroes, who risked her life to care for her patients. When the pandemic struck her … we are not applauding dying in the pursuit of medical care in contemporary times (when we know so much more about …
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Open data, transparency and power – role of the Virtual Health Information Network
… operational data used by government agencies and health care providers for the provision or targeting of services. In … Become a VHIN member by joining the Facebook group , connect with other VHIN members, and find out about workshops …
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Expanding Ka Ora, Ka Ako is ‘bread and butter’ action to alleviate the cost-of-healthy-food crisis
… Ka Ako . This programme was introduced for the quarter of primary, intermediate and secondary schools with the highest … at schools across the full range of the Equity Index. For primary schools, the prevalence was 29% for Year 5 students …
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Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ
… outbreaks can also disrupt the health system at the primary care level and the running of preventive programmes (eg, … of significant impacts on delivery of non-Covid-19 health care. As such there would seem to be a strong case to further …
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Long Covid in Aotearoa NZ: Risk assessment and preventive action urgently needed
… can expect to experience extensive long-term pressure on primary and secondary health services. 64 65 Long Covid is … oncoming burden of Long Covid faced by patients, health-care providers, governments and economies is so large as to … healthcare utilisation and costs. 65 Increased pressure on primary and secondary care health services to investigate and …
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