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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … The NZ Government must do more to clearly articulate its COVID-19 strategy: eradication or ‘flattening the curve’ … and healthy who incur higher infection rates? Under a health gain maximising utilitarian framework, yes. So long as …
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  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … the excise tax on heated tobacco products. Associate Health Minister Casey Costello argued this move would see … re-introduce denicotinisation, a measure supported by Health Minister Dr Shane Reti, and predicted to bring rapid … tobacco’s addictiveness and availability. Associate Health Minister Casey Costello justified this decision by …
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  • Are we ready to eliminate invasive meningococcal disease in Aotearoa New Zealand?

    … to home, NZ’s successful elimination strategy for the Covid-19 pandemic has shed new light on preventing a range of … communities will be essential to address mistrust in the health system that has hampered rollout of other vaccines. 8 …
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  • Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?

    … 50%+ in Māori men and 71%+ in Pacific men. The World Health Organization recommends all countries consider … yet little has been done toward this goal in NZ. The NZ health system needs to consider the value of adding H. pylori screening to existing health services, and to do so, H. pylori screening should be …
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  • Tax policy reform: equity, fairness, and health

    … effectively with a daunting range of economic, social, health and climate change crises . Our tax system does not … of the European/other group and 1.2% of the Asian group . 19 In 2017–19, average life expectancy was more than seven years lower …
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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 … include New Zealand’s new smokefree legislation and its Covid-19 response which has kept excess mortality below zero for …
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  • A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data

    … Everyone knows that socio-economic inequalities in health exist – in recent times. But one thing we do not know … Two period [9-11]. One study has found that in the late 19 th century “stature varied by social class, with … class [17, 18], material differences across NZ society [19] (see the Figure below), and the previously discussed …
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  • Carcinogen exposure in Aotearoa workplaces is unacceptably high

    … levels of exposure, and creating an Aotearoa Occupational Health Service, with a focus on establishing lifetime access … on overseas estimates applied to Aotearoa New Zealand health data. Establishing the number of workplace injuries … is one of its priority areas. This focus on work-related health is one of the priority areas with the biggest impact …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … will be more long term.   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand s on healthcare services … death in Aoteaora , responsible for almost 10% of all health loss (measured in DALYs) and contributing greatly to …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … Tiriti o Waitangi the Government is obliged to protect the health and wellbeing of Māori. It is further obligated under … evident for women aged 15 to 24 years. In the 2015/16 NZ Health Survey 34% of Māori in this group smoke compared with … of public health are described by Williams et al (19) and include “remaining responsive to new and emerging …
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