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  • Alcohol and suicide: The facts

    … Summary Alcohol use often exacerbates mental health problems and is a well-known risk factor for suicide. Health experts are alarmed about  incorrect and harmful … overseas that clearly links alcohol use with poor mental health outcomes and increased suicide risk. This Briefing …
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  • What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.

    … the observed smoking prevalence rates in Census and Health Survey data.  We then used these BAU (business as … as great as might be hoped (see a previous Blog in Public Health Expert). Whatever mix of major strategies is used – … all levels: political leadership, strong NGO advocacy and health professionals providing encouragement and support to …
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  • Dementia: Update on causes and prevention, including the role of COVID-19

    … infections (e.g., vaccination against influenza and COVID-19).   Introduction   We live at a time when more of us are … of patients within a California state-wide administrative health database of emergency department and inpatient visits …
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  • Covid recovery or sustainable transformation?

    … New Zealand faces momentous choices, crystallised by the Covid pandemic. Here we consider how we can shape policies … and programmes to ensure that the recovery from the Covid lockdown provides an opportunity for a sustainable … One of the most profound risk s ahead, as we recover from Covid, is climate change.   A key difference between Covid …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … Public health responses to infectious diseases such as COVID-19 require us to draw on our common humanity and be explicit …
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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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  • 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 … that the NIP would be the catalyst for dietary change (18,19). This format was chosen despite earlier research …
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  • What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective

    … of the virus. During Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19 in 2020, our team  created an agent-based model  which … the state, as well as the optimal strategy in terms of  health and cost impacts . We have now updated this modelling …
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  • Using a fun “Mask Day” at school to promote pandemic protection in the NZ community

    … face coverings or fabric masks as a strategy to contain COVID-19 pandemic virus transmission, the uptake of mask use in the … lack of support by the NZ Government and the World Health Organization. Our successful elimination of SARS-CoV-2 …
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  • What can we learn from Healthy Housing Initiatives? New evidence from the Wellington Well Homes scheme

    … We know that poor housing conditions result in ill health for many New Zealanders, and we know which … are required to ensure good quality housing that supports health. Healthy Housing Initiatives intervene to improve the … published research to gain insights about housing and health, and explore views about the effectiveness of these …
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Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)