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  • The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality

    … There is nothing like being second to Australia to galvanize angst and consternation among … Journal showing that New Zealand has higher death rates from cancer than Australia that cannot be explained by higher … room to improve in our health sector. This blog we canvass how bad (or good) the situation really is, the problems and …
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  • Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research

    … In this blog post we report on a new study from the BODE 3 Programme that suggests that strategies to reduce the dietary salt intake of New Zealanders could … sector. We also put these results into a wider context of how nutrition could be improved in NZ. This study was done …
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  • Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?

    … Association? They have all decided in the last few months to sell off their interests in fossil fuel companies. In this … we briefly explore the arguments around such disinvestment from a public health perspective.   To understand why these … the most important thing to do is to promote clean, safe and affordable sources of energy that are available to …
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  • “Nudging” to improve QR scanning and mask wearing to protect us all during a pandemic

    … and then management of any COVID-19 cases arising from border system failures. Within the community, high QR … and mask wearing rates are variable, rising in response to immediate threats and falling off when those threats … across varied settings raises important questions about how compliance could be improved in settings where scanning …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … were known, yet action was scant, remains difficult to comprehend. Although somewhat perversely, we even knew we … 201 ’ pandemic exercise. This exercise involved leaders from a number of public and private global organisations contemplating how to deal with a coronavirus pandemic that kills 65 million …
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  • How might NZ expand community water fluoridation?

    … and the cost-effectiveness. This blog post goes further to explore what else could be done to maximise the benefits … literature. It also details studies (including one from NZ [2]) showing that this is a cost-effective … children and adults, could be prevented by expanding CWF. How could community water fluoridation be expanded further in …
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  • Should you swap sugar for artificial sweetener? Maybe not if you’re a mouse, but what if you’re a human?

    …   Image from: http://www.life-enhancement.com Unless you’ve been … announced that we should reduce our daily sugar intake to less than 5% of total energy . In this blog, we consider … to know a bit more. For example, are artificial sweeteners safe? Do they cause cancer? The two new studies don’t attempt …
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  • Calculating cardiovascular risk with online calculators – scope for improvement?

    … It is now possible to readily estimate individual risk of future cardiovascular … with their GPs to make more informed decisions about how this risk can be reduced. They should not be regarded as … designed for the NZ setting (with epidemiological input from one of us: Jackson). Example results are shown in the …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … As a strategy to reduce harm from alcohol, there is growing interest internationally … group in England. To do this, they first estimated how alcohol consumption varies with price using econometric …
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  • Would reducing the number of tobacco retail outlets achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal?

    … Map of current tobacco retailers in New Zealand (n=6000) How can we achieve the 2025 goal of a smokefree nation? The best approach to this tobacco endgame, as it is often called, is unclear. … modelling also suggests tobacco outlet reduction is far from a panacea – under the assumptions we used. Therefore, …
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