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  • Bowel cancer screening – An interesting new US study and thoughts about the NZ situation

    … somewhat less so. Indeed, in our Research Programme ( BODE 3 ) we have nearly got final results on “quality-adjusted … ADR.   Quintile of adenoma detection rate:   1 – low 2 3 4 5 – high Net costs in $US millions, discounted at 3% p.a. (per 1000 patients) $2.1 $2.0 $1.9 $1.9 $1.8 …
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  • Robust vaccine surveillance shows safety – we need to communicate this better

    … effects or any other medicine/vaccine-related problem. 3 Today, there are a range of methods for tracking vaccine … clearer picture of the safety of medicines (see Appendix 3 on the use of international collaboration for … and pericarditis with an overall attributable risk around 3 additional cases per million doses. The benefits of the …
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  • Improving NZ Government communication about COVID-19: Five suggestions

    … successful “suppression” strategy against the pandemic. 3 4 Furthermore, the communication by leaders such as Prime … transmission mechanisms and effective outbreak control. 3. Strive harder to “be right” around all informational …
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  • Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options?

    … system from a reduction in tobacco-related diseases of NZ$3.4 billion [b] (2011$) (95% range: NZ$370 million to … [2], or a national colorectal cancer screening programme [3] (see Fig 1, showing quality-adjusted life-years [QALYs] … but all results in the league table use a 3% discount rate). Taking uncertainty into account There is …
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  • Lessons learned from a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa

    … – 40% more than the World Health Organization recommends 3, 4 .  Further, unlike more than 75 other countries in the … based around a purpose-built SALTS smartphone app (Figure 3). The app included procedures for people to give their … reminders directly to participants’ smartphones. Figure 3: SALTS Study Smartphone Application LESSONS LEARNED We …
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  • A policy and research agenda for roll-your-own tobacco

    … around half to two-thirds the size of TM cigarettes (3,4). RYO use is higher among younger demographics, … (42%) or in conjunction with TM cigarettes (20%) (3). Among 25-45 year olds, RYO use (exclusive and with TM … RYO tobacco than smokers who experience less deprivation (3). Furthermore, New Zealand RYO smokers are also more likely …
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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … to reduce smoking among Māori and Pacific peoples [1-3]. That said, smoking prevalence among adults is decreasing … children reduced from 18% to 11% and daily smoking from 10.3% to 5.3% [4, 5]. Table 1  Trends in current smoking prevalence in …
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  • It’s been 3 years since COVID entered New Zealand – here are 3 ways to improve our response

    … optimal level of control from suppression to mitigation . 3 This is a risk assessment question based on the acute and … . Featured Image: Luke Pilkington-Ching … It’s been 3 years since COVID entered New Zealand – here are 3 ways to improve our response …
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  • Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research

    … In this blog post we report on a new study from the BODE 3 Programme that suggests that strategies to reduce the … [ 2 ]. Potassium salts, which are beneficial for health [ 3 ], can also be used to replace the sodium in processed … improvements such as higher fibre and levels of omega-3 fatty acids. Such “ideal” bread could be used by …
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  • The COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa/NZ: A brief photo-essay with 10 photos

    … the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic virus in the community.   Figure 3: A new type of “rush hour” , with this photo of the main … of all high-income countries (peaking with a score of 96.3/100 but also dropping markedly in mid-May to 36.1/100; with … scores for Australia being 73.2/100 and 64.5/100). 3 Nevertheless, better prepared jurisdictions, such as Taiwan …
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