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  • Nourishing futures: How micronutrients improve pregnancy outcomes, reduce healthcare costs

    … postnatal depression. Psychotherapy is recommended but is often inaccessible due to cost, time, and stigma. … professional groups. This Briefing discusses outcomes from a new observational study of birth outcomes in mothers who … infants, with significantly less bleeding after delivery (post-partum haemorrhage) in vaginal births …
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  • Five actions to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, with a focus on Auckland

    … Auckland returns to Covid-19 elimination or transitions to a suppression approach, there are critical actions that can … suggests ongoing transmission in the community. Covid-19 infection appears to be established in groups who experience … by such cases as a truck driver found to test positive after travelling to other parts of the North Island. Planning …
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  • Highly variable cost-effectiveness with disease characteristics and age: Herceptin as a Case Study

    … drug Herceptin. It is about Herceptin in that we report on a study we just published in the journal PLoS Medicine about … precision medicine, our country’s funding decisions are often blunt and imprecise, some may even say wasteful. We … benefit eg, all New Zealanders get emergency care after an injury – no matter age or other pre-existing health …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: A core measure in New Zealand’s endgame strategy

    … number of outlets selling tobacco, and the introduction of a Smokefree Generation (SFG) policy. In this blog, we briefly … by stopping the sale of tobacco products to people born after a specified date;[11, 14, 15] the NZ Bill sets that … does not allow sales of tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2000.[24] Furthermore, local policies are …
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  • Public health and Budget 2024

    … by spending reductions and increased borrowing, amid a recession. This situation results in reduced funding for … was all made harder because the New Zealand economy is in a recession, which reduces tax revenue and increases some … seen as costs now benefits later.  Public health measures often require investments in an unrelated area (say housing), …
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  • ACC turns 50: A more modern approach to injury prevention needed

    … New Zealanders for decades, its injury prevention efforts often focus narrowly on individual behaviour rather than … prevention strategies. That shift in direction would be a worthy advance to celebrate 50 years of serving Aotearoa … recognising that while a victim’s behaviour (or mistakes) often plays a role, addressing structural and environmental …
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  • Regulatory Standards Bill threatens the public interest, public health and Māori rights

    … Summary The Regulatory Standards Bill aims to establish “a benchmark for good legislation through a set of principles … health from likely harms. For instance, the 'takings or impairment' principle would enable commercial interests to … and environmental sustainability. The proposed ‘takings or impairment’ principle, by requiring public compensation for …
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  • Five Potential Enhancements of Covid-19 Outbreak Control in Aotearoa NZ

    … propose the following potential enhancements: (i) develop a robust system to allow for region-specific Alert Levels; … revealed by the Prime Minister yesterday indicates a relatively recent source of the current outbreak in … to help accelerate outbreak control. Indeed, spread of infection by essential workers has been a problem with the …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 goal is in danger of receding – will the Ministry of Health’s ‘realignment’ get it back on track?

    … progress New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal. However, will a ‘realignment’ of existing services ensure the goal is realised? In this blog, based on a recently published letter in the New Zealand Medical … supported recommendations (7), full implementation has often not occurred. For example, expenditure on mass media …
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  • Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls

    … In a just published study (and accompanying evaluation summary … began funding a vaccination programme against HPV infection in 2008 [1]. After various catch-up phases, vaccination has been routinely …
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