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  • Comparing health interventions in a meaningful way – Introducing the BODE3 Interactive League Table

    …  Interactive League Table, for comparing interventions on health gain, cost and cost-effectiveness – and potentially … to get an informed ‘first impression’ of what are the best health interventions to give further consideration to … more rational, New Zealand society would do things in the health sector that had the maximum gain in health, and least …
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  • Media release: A new voice to boost New Zealand’s response to major public health challenges

    … The new Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC) will boost the impact of research to improve health and equity in Aotearoa New Zealand along with greater … strengthen communication between researchers and the wider community. “We want to ensure the public, the media, and …
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  • Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further

    … socio-economic factors between ethnic groups, improving access to health services, tobacco control and addressing the … of NZ (where Māori are over-represented (21)), and easy access has been associated with increased smoking uptake and …
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  • Will the Health Star Rating labels improve people’s diets?

    … labels have been fiercely contested by industry and health stakeholders – until now, it seems. Is the new Health Star Rating label truly a win-win consensus, or might … merits of Stars vs Traffic Lights.  However, the optional access to labels via a smartphone app has some limitations, …
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  • A major new study on Kiwi health – can it inform decision-making?

    … by Radio NZ (3’12”)  and TVNZ (4’09”).) The Ministry of Health has just released a major new burden of disease study … a burden of disease study is for prioritisation of public health activity.  We address these two issues in turn in this … And hats off to Dr Martin Tobias from the Ministry of Health who led the study. The main metric used is …
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  • The case for a NZ-Australia Pandemic Cooperation Agreement

    … nations could maximise their capacity to best protect the health and wellbeing of their populations from future … Joint efforts in diagnostic-test development would ensure access to accurate and scalable testing and genomic pathogen … face criticism or reputation loss from the international community and their international trading partners. …
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  • New report shows how regional plans could transform freshwater quality

    … plans have broad ecological, cultural, economic, and human health importance and, if the report’s findings are well … restoring or protecting its health and achieving other community goals (like safe swimming, gathering mahinga kai or … lakes were not monitored or controlled. Transparency and access to regulatory data was also not always adequate to …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … Providing equity of access for assisted dying without equity of access to … The objective of the Crown providing funding for health practitioners to deliver assisted dying services is to … is for assisted dying to be available as nearly all other community services, partially-funded under the existing …
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  • Fast-track Bill puts NZ on wrong track, threatening public health

    … serious and intergenerational threats to public health.  Here we focus on the implications of the Bill for our environment and the consequences this has for our health and wellbeing. The Fast-track Approvals Bill has been … capital on which the economy depends”. 7   With human health intrinsically linked to environmental health, the …
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  • Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts

    … Government can take immediate action to reduce this joint health and economic burden by improving Covid vaccination … and coverage and intensifying interventions that reduce community spread of Covid-19, including improvements in … to work full-time or at all is common : In a large UK community cohort study, 3 participants currently reporting …
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