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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Where the sun enters, the doctor does not

    … building standards . This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health … risk for infectious diseases such as rheumatic fever and COVID-19). Three ways improving houses can relieve pressure on the …
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  • Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?

    … and cost-effectiveness of dietary counselling as a health intervention. Most studies suggest that dietary … gains and be cost-saving relative to dietary counselling [19-21]. Local government could also address the obesogenic … Total cholesterol, mg/dL -2.85   (-4.95 to -0.75) 19 As above. High-density lipoprotein cholesterol, mg/dL …
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  • Advance Care Planning – good for patient care and better use of health dollars?

    … of thinking about, talking about and planning for future health care and end of life care. In its delivery, this seems a very clinically focussed, individual health care process, so what relevance has it got for Public Health? Actually a lot. We know that we spend around seven …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning

    … New Zealand and maths and science achievement (TIMSS 2018/19) The Progress in International Reading Literacy (PIRLS) 14 … study years and subject areas. Implications for public health Hunger is a major threat to public health and educational attainment and needs to be urgently …
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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … patient outcomes but also change ‘downstream costs’ in the health sector.  For example, chemotherapy may increase.  … including all downstream changes in cost and health gains?”  And for which cancers and which type of … most cursory of glances at where the money gets spent in health reveals that the majority of funds go to overnight …
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  • Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream

    … 0.3 and 1.0   mg/L. 7 Importantly, the MAV is a human health limit, not a limit that should be applied to the … The impact of pollution at this level on environmental health is high and emerging evidence of human health risks at … water regulator, should take in source water protection . 19   What is new in this Briefing  Some Canterbury …
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  • Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: Five key ways to reduce the massive health and social costs

    … to lower costs to citizens. The latest iteration of the Health and Air Pollution in New Zealand Study (HAPINZ 3.0) has summed up the health costs of air pollution, drawing on comprehensive air … had not been present).” The estimated costs of these health and social impacts from human-made air pollution in …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … The objective of the Crown providing funding for health practitioners to deliver assisted dying services is to … Also, with the possibility that we can no longer eliminate Covid-19 (at least in some areas of NZ), these hospitals are likely …
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  • Regulation of alcohol marketing is needed to meet health, wellbeing and equity goals

    … described. In Aotearoa, alcohol results in a wide range of health and social harms affecting both drinkers and … and is distributed inequitably, 2,3 contributing to wider health and social inequities. Social costs of alcohol harm … sponsorship to alcohol-related harm has led to the World Health Organization including restrictions on marketing as …
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  • Media release: NZ could eliminate the deadly meningococcal disease

    … disease experts. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, University of Otago … says we have public health infrastructure from the Covid-19 pandemic that could help in elimination of meningococcal …
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