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  • Smokefree Aotearoa – world-leading developments with profound public health implications

    … and the tobacco industry and its allies are likely to be determined opponents. Key priorities for the smokefree and … leaders also emphasised that the tobacco industry should be held to account as the main driver of the smoking … cigarettes remained highly addictive and continued to be sold in almost every dairy, supermarket and petrol station …
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  • Promoting physical activity through the prescription of smartphone apps in primary care: Likely to produce health gains and cost-savings

    … each week [3]. In NZ, over 40% of adults are estimated to be insufficiently physically active [4]. This contributes to … and services available, smartphone applications (apps) may be a particularly popular approach to increasing physical … (eg, accelerometers) [9]. Apps have also been shown to be effective at increasing physical activity levels [10, 11], …
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  • Tax policy as a key health determinant: Reform for the Covid-19 reset

    … decent and just society. Tax reform options should be included in pre-election party proposals. More … collected, but also the extent to which inequalities may be addressed – or conversely exacerbated. Tax is therefore a … for tax reform. 6 New ideas for taxation should not be limited to specific measures for health and environmental …
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  • Australia’s Quarantine Systems Failures: Lessons for NZ

    … from overseas. However, offsetting this trend will be measures such as the vaccination of quarantine workers. In … of the quarantine failures in Australia are thought to be due to inadequate ventilation in hotels used as quarantine … (a converted workers’ camp 11 ) and this approach should be seriously evaluated for NZ, otherwise NZ could negotiate …
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  • Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status

    … the island of Tasmania). Other jurisdictions appear to be getting recent outbreaks under control and might also be progressing towards elimination status eg, Hong Kong, … from the above jurisdictions indicates that this goal can be achieved using appropriately targeted control measures at …
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  • Does healthy food really cost more?

    … consumption of less healthy foods. However, there seems to be little consensus on how best to measure price – per … and thus provides best value for money? Some shoppers will be looking for food to fill their families at the lowest … are cheap and filling. A very cheap, healthy menu can be constructed but a diet with lots of cabbage, lentils and …
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  • Increasing whooping cough cases put pēpi at risk. What can be done about it?

    … pertussis immunisation protects pēpi before they can be immunised themselves. It has an excellent safety profile … antenatal immunisation system. This system should be centred on equity and Te Tiriti obligations to monitor and … about immunisation. Although some women/people may be adequately informed about immunisation by their healthcare …
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  • Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?

    … by the bacteria Helicobacter pylori in the stomach, may be a cost-effective way to reduce the stomach cancer burden … improvements remain slow and stomach cancer continues to be more common among Māori and Pacific peoples (2) (Figure 1) … health services, and to do so, H. pylori screening should be assessed against a number of different criteria …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … on experience from Oregon USA, that assisted dying would be predominantly taken up by a small number of mostly … to Make a Claim b. the health practitioner must not: i. be providing the assisted dying services in their capacity as an employee of a District Health Board; ii. be entitled to have the claim satisfied (whether directly or …
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  • Worth its weight: Building insulation in New Zealand

    … has important environmental co-benefits that should not be ignored when looking at the cost-benefit ratios of any … all add up so that at a national level the country might be spared the need for the ongoing operation of coal-hungry … greenhouse gas emissions reductions (of up to 49%) can be achieved from improving energy efficiency, and they want …
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