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  • Long COVID: a crucial reason for vax, mask, and distance

    … and reported first in the Washington Post 3 ; It began to be studied by both epidemiologic and clinical researchers, … deserved more attention than it was getting (this may now be improving) because it was much more common than many … among those with long COVID, suggesting that it could well be a serious burden on individuals, family and whanau, …
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  • What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes and public health

    … ways that taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) can be designed and implemented. These aspects can affect the … taxes apply to both local production and imports and can be designed to be consistent with trade agreements, whereas import tariffs …
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  • Key findings in the 2021/22 NZ Health Survey: Continued rapid falls in smoking prevalence and increases in vaping

    … a large proportion of 15-24 year old vapers will be non-smokers. Data on smoking and EC use among young adults … remain almost three times more likely than non-Māori to be current smokers in 2021/22 (prevalence ratio: 2.88, 95%CI: … unchanged. Pacific people were over twice as likely to be current smokers that non-Pacific people in 2021/22 …
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  • Insights into health system costs of living and dying in New Zealand – New study

    … spending on them over their life ‘only’ 11% is expected to be in the last year of life. Given that there is concern that spending in the last year of life may not be the best use of resources, it looks like New Zealand is … this respect. Nevertheless, there are probably savings to be made at the end of life through the likes of wider use of …
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  • Regulation of alcohol marketing is needed to meet health, wellbeing and equity goals

    … Social costs of alcohol harm have been estimated to be more than 3% of GDP. 4 The case for regulation of alcohol … 10 but heavy and problem drinkers have been shown to be more responsive than others to alcohol advertising and … aspects of people’s lives allows alcohol advertisements to be location-, time-, and context-specific, combining …
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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … universal vaccine for all influenza subtypes , there will be continuing pressure to stockpile pharmaceuticals that … groups. As much as possible, such ‘hope’ needs to be evidence-based, and revised as new knowledge becomes … besides the new Cochrane systematic review needs to be considered (eg, this systematic review  of observational …
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  • Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data

    … and outline how some of our key research findings can be identified using this tool. High quality data publicly … of the Data Explorer is its flexibility. The data can be restricted and compared by cause of mortality, type of … European/Other group (2). A graph to view these trends can be made on the “Ethnicity” tab of the Data Explorer: the …
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  • NZ’s smart use of big data: Employment & income impacts of selected health conditions

    … for the economic consequences of health conditions to be estimated by comparing the post-diagnosis employment and … from 3% (for COPD) to 15% (for stroke).” Also, as might be expected, the employment and income impacts of TBI, CHD, … and incomes grew gradually larger (also what might be expected with this typically progressive disease). The …
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  • Advance Care Planning – good for patient care and better use of health dollars?

    … all other years of a patient’s life (2). This problem will be exacerbated as the baby boomers die. Expenditure on dying … there and her telling me that she really did not want to be there and that there was not much for her to live for. Two … without even giving any idea of how big that chance might be. It even turns out that some people live longer if given …
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  • Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study

    … the health gains over the remainder of their lives would be 47,100 quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs; 95% uncertainty … estimate – although the funding still needs to be found. We have also previously modelled a home safety … 20 selected interventions. But this league table can also be used for making comparisons between falls and other …
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