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  • Daily aspirin for preventing cancer and heart disease – where to from here in NZ?

    … various cancers and heart attacks – but also harmful in terms of causing gastric bleeding and one type of stroke). … saved half way through this 20 year period, then the average man taking aspirin will get an extra 52 days of life … at age 55 years on deaths over the next 20 years (in 100 average-risk men – results summarised from the more complex …
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  • Why don’t we make rental housing safer?

    … unpack the narrative around home injury and find progress in addressing safety via rental housing regulations is stymied, in part, by institutional arrangements that favour the … wounds, with half of unintentional injuries resulting in death occurring in the home 1 . Lower-income households …
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  • The long shadow of war on the health of military personnel

    … study of the lifespan of NZ soldiers who participated in the First World War. It then asks more broadly what is … term health outcomes for military personnel participating in war – and suggests that such issues need to be considered carefully by governments before participating in foreign military engagements. The study that a group of us …
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  • Meat, health, hospitals, and sustainability*

    … healthier diets that are also sustainable is increasingly in the news. In this blog, I look at the case for reducing the amount of meat in hospital meals and gently remind our dietitian colleagues …
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  • Ready or not? Pandemic preparedness index and implications for NZ

    … how prepared countries are for pandemics. It was created in 2019 to benchmark countries. However, analysis early in the Covid-19 pandemic did not show the expected … scores do predict Covid-19 outcomes. Additionally, scores in the ‘Risk environment’ category are most predictive, yet …
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  • Improving our pandemic preparedness: Counterfactuals and continuous quality improvement

    … to comment on how pandemics should be responded to in future. One approach is to think about strategic decisions … that need to be improved or delivered more effectively in the next pandemic. For example, receiving Covid-19 … to help maintain elimination during 2020-21, NZ maintained average levels of restrictions that were lower than most …
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  • A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development

    … effort is underway to address the housing crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand including rapid investment in public and community housing. Māori are highly urbanised … of Māori. Housing and urban Infrastructure’s role in wellbeing All people have common wellbeing needs, yet …
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  • The Government’s transport plans work against our health

    … pollution and physical inactivity. The policies outlined in the draft GPS 2024 are, as a package, likely to worsen the … high levels of illness, disability, and early death in our communities caused by the transport system. This will … through the impacts of climate change on the population.  In summary, the proposed policies will erode what current …
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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 … release ), we found that the NZ Government’s investment in HPV vaccination for girls is clearly a “good … school-only vaccination programme (73% coverage as in Australia) would achieve more health gain and still be …
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  • Modelling tobacco tax – implications of BODE3 paper just out, and personal reflections on the research journey

    … Yesterday we published a paper in PLoS Medicine that estimates the health gains, health … health system cost impacts of ongoing annual 10% increases in tobacco tax. In this blog I outline the key findings of this paper, and …
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