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  • The need for long-term thinking – Especially for preventing catastrophic risks

    … (AI) and climate change. Fortunately, there is a wide range of feasible options to build long-term thinking … . Appropriately responding to this threat also demands a long-term focus on building in safe locations and having … infrastructure is typically decades out-of-date and needs a major upgrade. 1 2 This deficit caused an outbreak of …
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  • Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?

    … and cost-effectiveness of dietary counselling as a health intervention. Most studies suggest that dietary … However, governments, policy-makers and the public are often interested in counselling interventions, necessitating … at study start and 1 hour at follow-up home visits after 6 weeks of intervention, with support through cell …
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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … reasonable quality data implies that the risk of Covid-19 infection for most vaccinated international arrivals is … repeated PCR tests. Arrivals are also required to submit a negative PCR test result carried out 72 hours or less prior … vaccinated case rate in many more. In Canada, for example, after adjusting for their lower testing rate, there could be …
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  • Mind the gap: Associate Health Minister’s actions conflict with Ministry advice, align with tobacco industry lobbying

    … Minister Shane Jones admitted taking “ soundings ” from a tobacco company staff member, dismissing his obligations … there was only “weak evidence” of snus’s effectiveness as a smoking cessation tool and noted that snus may increase the … and who have not found vaping appealing.”   “Look past the often-partisan rhetoric. The coalition’s promise to avoid …
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  • Protecting fresh waterways in Aotearoa/NZ: The strong Public Health case

    … waterways to the Ministry for the Environment, as part of a current consultation process which ends on 31 October.   … Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has recently published a discussion document, titled “Action for healthy waterways” … the world’s largest water-borne outbreak of campylobacter infection in Havelock North (see this blog: [13]). The …
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  • Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action

    … rate in the OECD [1, 2]. The massive economic rebound at a 14% rise in GDP for the third quarter [3], is also highly favourable. Indeed, a preliminary analysis of IMF data suggests that countries … have performed better economically than those using a suppression strategy [4]. A key success factor for NZ was …
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  • Should you swap sugar for artificial sweetener? Maybe not if you’re a mouse, but what if you’re a human?

    … Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’ll be aware that sugar and its negative … and their impact on body weight and metabolism – one a lab experiment on mice published in Nature that was widely … water supplemented with either glucose or sucrose (sugar). After 11 weeks, the mice fed sweeteners were displaying …
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  • Comparing health interventions in a meaningful way – Introducing the BODE3 Interactive League Table

    … cost-effectiveness – and potentially many other things.  A league table is a useful tool for researchers and … to ‘see at a glance’ how health sector interventions vary (often hugely) in the health gain they can achieve, and the … they could be in one year or 50 years, and so on, after the intervention commenced in our 2011 base-year. …
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  • Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame

    … Control , where we have estimated the future impacts of a range of proposed novel and substantive strategies that may … the reduction in smoking prevalence. These measures are often defined as ‘tobacco endgame strategies’ (4). Examples … of these benefits being accrued in the three decades after implementation (see Figure 2). While such an …
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  • Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study

    … We have just published a modelling study on exercise programmes in NZ to prevent … options. What did our new study find? We found that a home-based exercise programme generated the greatest health … such as: Expedited cataract surgery – since visual impairment is a risk factor for falls (see this Australian …
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