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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … Previously published NZ-based modelling work has explored business-as-usual trends … as higher regular tobacco tax increases in achieving the NZ Government’s Smokefree Nation 2025 Goal. As best we can … Professor George Thomson, Frederieke S van der Deen, Dr Cristina Cleghorn, Professor Tony Blakely   Appendix B: …
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  • Potential new regulatory options for e-cigarettes/ANDS in NZ

    … E-cigarette usage is growing in NZ and around the world but the scientific evidence-base … (alternative nicotine delivery systems – ANDS) that the NZ Government could explore and that further NZ based … Blakely, Frederieke Sanne van der Deen (PhD candidate), Dr Brent Caldwell, Professor Julian Crane, and Professor …
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  • A National risks assessment should include pandemics and other global catastrophes

    … The Draft NZ National Security Long-term Insights Briefing (LTIB) has … must not jeopardize this wider project. *Author details: Dr Boyd is at Adapt Research Ltd, Dr Payne is a Research Associate with Massey University, Prof …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … high blood pressure, and lack of physical activity.  In NZ, the potential for prevention is even greater, especially … with poverty and social disadvantage. Dementia in Aotearoa NZ, disproportionately affects Māori and Pacific peoples Age … and reduce risk at a population level.  Authors details Dr ‘Etuini Ma’u , Department of Psychological Medicine, …
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  • COVID-19 and the law in Aotearoa NZ

    … law has become real in daily life in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). But not all of us are quite sure what the law allows, and what it doesn’t. NZ’s legal framework for infectious disease management and … for contact tracing in our law. This, in summary, was NZ’s legal framework available for responding to COVID-19 in …
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  • Calculating cardiovascular risk with online calculators – scope for improvement?

    … with a large number of online calculators – including a NZ-specific calculator that has been available for some years … online CVD risk calculator has been designed for the NZ setting (with epidemiological input from one of us: … changes. Authors :  Associate Professor Nick Wilson, Dr Nhung Nghiem, Professor Tony Blakely, Professor Rod …
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  • BMI keeps on going up – and reflections on the Diabesity Symposium

    … Is body mass index (BMI) relentlessly increasing in NZ, or plateauing? In this blog we present trends in BMI by ethnicity in NZ going back to the 1980s. Over the last four decades the … 3 are looking closely at this area at the moment, as is Dr Coppell at the University of Otago and the Healthier Lives …
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  • NZ should prepare for a potentially severe global coronavirus pandemic

    … pandemic plan, with a particular focus on ‘keep it out’. NZ has many natural and institutional advantages in managing … some who may be asymptomatic). Of particular relevance to NZ is its epidemiology outside of China – where we still have … risk of approximately 0.01% of the population [4]). In NZ that pandemic infected 18% of New Zealanders [5] and was …
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  • Current and future generations must flourish: Time for a long-term and global perspective on pandemic and other catastrophic risks

    … mandated Long-term Insights Briefings (LTIB) that Aotearoa NZ public sector organisations must prepare and some ideas … just published research paper calling for a well-resourced NZ Parliamentary Commissioner for Catastrophic Risks to help … UN’s call for a long-term and coordinated approach, how is NZ placed? On the one hand it is notable that the shortfall …
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  • Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study

    … wish to consider doing in response to the evidence.   The NZ Burden of Disease Study (NZBDS) reported that falls cause … estimates came from the Cochrane systematic review and NZ-specific intervention costs (8). The study estimated that … total cost to implement the programme was estimated to be NZ$145 million (95%UI: $96 to $206 m). The net health system …
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