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  • Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking

    … Conversely, NZ has some key barriers to overcome to make the best use of that data – most importantly, data systems … environment, strengths we can build on. Consider the health data.  All mortality and hospitalisation events, … lab tests, and so on, can be linked anonymously through the National Health Index number (unique patient …
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  • Would a sugary fizzy drink tax reduce health inequalities? Probably Yes

    … predictions, and then a recent Australian study on the topic. The bottom line is that such a tax would probably be good for health of all groups in NZ, but particularly the poorest New Zealanders. Such a reduction in health …
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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … In our recently published work, we studied the impact of the NZ Government preventing new retail outlets from selling … to continue selling it until they closed or relocated. The estimated outcome would be a 50% decrease in the total …
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  • Mounting complexities in the dietary salt & health relationship

    … on dietary salt and health has recently been reported in the New England Journal of Medicine . While reinforcing … that we need a high-level international review to clarify the research and policy agenda from here. Our interpretation … BELOW BASED ON DISCUSSIONS WITH COLLEAGUES – IMPORTANT.]   The overall evidence around salt and harm to health (as …
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  • Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further

    … mortality rates, over time, for Māori, Pacific peoples and the European/Other ethnic group, there are still striking … access to health services, tobacco control and addressing the obesogenic environment. Recently, especially in the United States, there has been a growing concern that …
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  • Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options?

    … vaping as a replacement for tobacco smoking, will improve the health of the NZ population. The estimated health gain is about the same as 10% per annum …
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  • Vaccination is often cost-effective but not (currently) HPV vaccination for boys in NZ

    … study we have done and blogged on . But given that the Australian Government is now providing fully subsidised … school boys, we thought it useful to study this issue in the NZ setting. Our model involved simulating an annual cohort of 12-year-old girls and boys in 2011 in the context of either female-only or both-sex HPV …
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  • Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?

    … Summary  The government appears poised to allow the sale of oral tobacco and nicotine products in Aotearoa … tobacco, snus, and nicotine pouches. In recent years, the tobacco industry has invested heavily in marketing …
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  • Charting our way back to normal

    … tool, COVID-19 Pandemic Trade-offs, allows people to weigh the costs and benefits of different policy responses as … video. Article reproduced with permission from Pursuit  The burning COVID-19 question this year is – “When can we get … more pessimistically, “Will we ever get back to normal?” The honest answer is we do not know, and only time will tell. …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … business-as-usual trends in smoking prevalence, and the potential roles of interventions such as higher regular tobacco tax increases in achieving the NZ Government’s Smokefree Nation 2025 Goal. As best we … increases in tobacco tax alone will not be able to achieve the 2025 Goal. In this blog post we outline our favoured …
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