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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … next big battle in nutrition: SUGAR. Yesterday, the World Health Organization put out their widely anticipated … intake for consultation. In this blog, we review some of the underlying evidence on the health harm of sugar, and … just a couple of weeks ago in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), goes one step further. It found …
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  • Where do the parties stand? – Introducing our election series

    … representatives make choices that impact the long-term health and wellbeing of every New Zealander. These decisions are not confined to the health system but range across all parts of our society. To make an informed decision, voters need to …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Good health in childhood is vital for lifelong wellbeing: time for a preventive approach

    … This blog looks at solutions t o improve child health : a child impact lens on policy, lifting income … action on childhood immunisation .   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective … health system struggled with persistently high rates of preventable hospitalisations, ill-health, and large health …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … strategy is now threatened by the global emergence of new variants with increasingly high transmissibility. We … to keep New Zealanders safe, particularly in the light of the current outbreak risk in Wellington. Immediate actions … rapidly vaccinating all remaining border and frontline health workers, ensuring that all New Zealanders are able to …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … Public health responses to infectious diseases such as COVID-19 … Getting Through Together already provides a statement of shared values which can be used to guide a wide range of responses. In response to Wilson and Baker’s timely piece …
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  • Highly variable cost-effectiveness with disease characteristics and age: Herceptin as a Case Study

    … we just published in the journal PLoS Medicine about the health gains, costs, and cost-effectiveness of Herceptin. It isn’t about Herceptin in that the key point … In clinical practice, personalised medicine means that medical decisions are tailored to the individual patient …
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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?

    … The Ministry of Health proposes realigning tobacco control services to … based on a recently published letter in the New Zealand Medical Journal (1) we suggest it may help. However, we argue …
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  • Social contract needed to deliver a 'no BS' public health agenda

    … with little regard to any economic understanding of the true productive resource constraints. Financial and … behaviour must lie. The status quo agenda will see public health activities destined to continue as futile exercises to … are implicit rather than explicit. A recent New Zealand Medical Journal editorial argued, in the context of improved …
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  • A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data

    … Everyone knows that socio-economic inequalities in health exist – in recent times. But one thing we do not know … a study that looks at two historical datasets – with one of these suggesting life span differences by occupational … NZ troops, 1918 – our study found that the lifespan of non-combat troops varied by occupational class  What we …
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  • Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes

    … in clinical trials do not compensate for the lower levels of nicotine by smoking more and nor do they suffer severe … introduced by the previous government and the availability of viable alternative sources of nicotine. The public health benefit of denicotinising cigarettes is likely to be …
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