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  • Preventing diabetes: What does the latest modelling evidence tell us about health gains and cost savings?

    … to prevent type 2 diabetes could substantially benefit health, reduce health inequalities, and save billions in health sector costs for NZ. In 2013-2014, it was estimated …
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  • Vaping needs much tighter regulation as we approach Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Two new studies

    … new insights into the impact vaping may have on public health. The first estimates that use of modern vaping devices could be around a third as harmful to health as smoking. The second uses these findings to estimate the net health and cost impacts for NZ of vaping devices having …
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  • Nationwide Colorectal Screening in New Zealand: a tricky balance of improving overall population health and addressing inequalities

    … is highly likely to be cost-effective, and will offer health gains to all screened population groups. However, … have been less successful in engaging with Māori, the health gains for the Māori population in New Zealand will be … screening programme will increase inequalities in overall health for Māori compared to the rest of the population.   …
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  • Health system costs in NZ: variation by sex, age & proximity to death

    … blog aims to discuss a study we recently published on NZ health system cost estimates by sex, age and proximity to … appropriate. Third, there is concern about ballooning health system expenditure due to population aging – but one … in the future. We probed Treasury estimates of future Vote:Health funding, and suggest their models slightly …
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  • Emphasis on indigenous forests in ETS would benefit public health

    … to the review . We touch on the impacts to human health from climate change and then outline the problems for public health from landscapes dominated by monocultural forestry. We highlight the public health and other co-benefits from redesigning the ETS to …
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  • Concluding the Public Health Solutions Series 

    … Over the last five weeks, Public Health Expert blog has published ten invited blogs on the best public health interventions the G overnment can put in place to reduce pressure on the health system.        As highlighted in the media this week, …
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  • Public Health Communication Centre strategic outline

    … Our purpose To effectively communicate public health research evidence in order to protect and improve the health, well-being, and equity of the people of Aotearoa New Zealand and the health of the environment in which we live. Primary Charter …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … it is possible that New Zealand can use intense public health controls to eradicate COVID-19 from the country – we … many urgently hospitalised. 1 Better resilience for our health system in the face of COVID-19 must include reducing … and lower driving speeds would also help. Intensive media information on preventing major home accidents – falls, …
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  • COVID-19 and Māori health – when equity is more than a word

    … As Māori academics, researchers and health professionals, we are extremely concerned about the … We are also worried by the inadequate focus on Māori health equity in pandemic planning within the health and … groups who experience marginalisation and oppression. Information from the United States has highlighted that …
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  • More courage needed from our political parties—reviewing our election series

    … where political parties stand on issues that impact the health and wellbeing of our population. In this article we … parties stand” series, in which we put a range of public health issues to the five parties currently in parliament. We … to introduce legislation around global catastrophic risk management. Their conclusions:  "NZ political parties do not …
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