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  • Low-cost heart-healthy bread for NZ

    … as well as being lower cost. Such bread designs could be promoted by health agencies and utilised in conjunction … with its own bakery) we estimated that the cost would be reduced to: $1.46 for the HHB$1.5 loaf, and to $2.57 for … provision of HHB to people with CVD) a profit margin would be relevant. For example, a 25% profit margin shared by …
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  • Beyond unhelpful dichotomies: a co-regulatory approach to protecting children from junk food marketing

    … This blog explores a co-regulatory approach that could be applied to the strengthening of junk food marketing … the Government to step in and regulate. Does it have to be black or white, mandatory or voluntary? Of course not (1), … about who is involved or the governance arrangements can be pretty fuzzy (2, 3). Co-regulation could be a third-party …
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  • The need for an updated strategic approach to Covid-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … in Auckland deteriorates, then healthcare resources can be shifted to Auckland from Covid-19-free regions of the … long-term success the border with Auckland needs to be strengthened (see the text below this table). There might be a risk of cases in Northland following the recent visit of …
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  • Beautiful benchtops: How should we protect our workers?

    … ensure effective follow-up. However, these measures should be part of a wider Worker Health, Wellbeing and Safety … and concrete. Once airborne, RCS is small enough to be inhaled deep into the lungs and in susceptible individuals … so it has not yet been found. 4 In addition, disease may be misdiagnosed - and even when diagnosed it is not notified …
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  • Monitoring and forecasting the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand including the successful impact of the lockdown

    … was a clear need to find a modelling approach that could be used by policymakers and non-specialists to monitor the … spread of the virus, and allow timely risk assessments to be made at critical times. The reproduction number (R 0 ) is … outbreaks. For this reason, mathematical models can be used to quantify R, which in turn can provide important …
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  • The hardening hypothesis for smoking – but does the evidence point to “softening” in NZ?

    … as smoking prevalence declines, the remaining smokers will be the more addicted ones who are less likely to quit. But … declines the remaining smokers will increasingly be ‘hard-core’ or ‘hardened’, with higher nicotine dependence … common-sense that lighter and more motivated smokers will be over-represented and hard-core smokers under-represented …
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  • Phasing out smoking: The Tobacco-Free Generation policy

    … Free Generation (TFG) propose? Consumers have a right to be protected from products that may kill them, particularly … those products are addictive. Other products found to be harmful to health (e.g. asbestos, leaded petrol) have been … so many people are already addicted to smoking, it may be impractical to ban the sale of tobacco products overnight, …
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  • Is Keytruda for advanced melanoma cost-effective? Applying the BODE3 rapid cost effectiveness calculator

    … calculator, and find that Keytruda may well be (just) cost-effective – but with huge uncertainty, and … in the NZ setting a bit tricky, as our comparator would be yet another drug: dacarbazine. PHARMAC have considered … data from earlier trials (where long-term follow-up should be done) has not been provided, and in the more recent trials …
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  • Lessons learned from a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa

    … considering the use of technology in research to be aware of some of the lesser-known challenges they may … has shown that high BP and cardiovascular disease can be markedly reduced by lowering population sodium intake 2 . … population, and dietary sodium reduction is likely to be one of the best ways to do it. In 2018 we embarked on a …
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  • Covid-19 Case-Fatality Risk & Infection-Fatality Risk – important measures to help guide the pandemic response

    … the cumulative CFR in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) to be around 0.08%, which is lower than other jurisdictions who … CFR at 0.1% and Asian the lowest at 0.024%. Care must be taken when interpreting these statistics, for example, … are amongst the unvaccinated. A recent study (still to be peer-reviewed) suggests that in Hong Kong, ‘ a similar …
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