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  • A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data

    … life expectancy by occupational class among men enlisted to fight in the First World War (but not actually getting to … definitive evidence (it is hard to get perfect evidence from 100 years ago!), it does suggest that socio-economic … to do with the digitalisation of historical data.   But how can modern NZ do more to address health inequalities? …
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  • Nourishing futures: How micronutrients improve pregnancy outcomes, reduce healthcare costs

    … Psychotherapy is recommended but is often inaccessible due to cost, time, and stigma. Antidepressants are advised for … professional groups. This Briefing discusses outcomes from a new observational study of birth outcomes in mothers … stop taking antidepressants, often due to worries about how they might affect infant health. 10 Only 3-6% of pregnant …
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  • What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.

    … (or initiation), and/or increases in cessation rates, to achieve this goal? We try to answer this question in a … of percentage points, or increases the marginal quit rate from 10% to (say) 11% after six months, this is only going to … far reaching, and markedly drive up cessation How can we do it? One possibility comes from work from the …
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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … New Zealand. These products could potentially help people to stop smoking by providing a source of nicotine that is likely to be less physically harmful than cigarettes. However, … [ Figure 2 ]. They contain either nicotine extracted from tobacco or synthetic nicotine. Because oral nicotine …
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  • Public health priorities in this election year

    … health challenges linked by a need for decision-makers to act.  These are all areas where we as a society have a … actions now to ensure all people have access to warm, dry, safe, affordable housing that they have reason to value. … in Waimate water last year as a clear example of how the current system is failing to keep our drinking water …
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  • The case for lowering salt levels in processed foods is now even stronger – new research

    … sodium intake in these other studies may be largely due to inaccurate measurement of sodium intake. So the scientific … recommend that governments progress interventions to reduce sodium levels in processed foods. This could … reported in some cohort studies (eg, [2] [3]). Data from the follow-up of the Trials of Hypertension Prevention …
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  • Ready or not? Pandemic preparedness index and implications for NZ

    … Summary This Briefing highlights how the world remains vulnerable to the persisting risk of pandemics. The Global Health … by using tools such as the GHS Index, as well as learning from international exemplars such as the UK’s just-released …
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  • “Appetite for Destruction”: A new book with attitude – but also strong science

    … of a stirrer of public debate.  Think domestic cat control to save birds . Think “Big Kahuna” on social policy. And … tomorrow, the book reviews aspects of the history of food, how the current foodscape is an amazing success story of … phrase, may change the minds of many middle-New Zealanders from a belief that what you eat is individual choice, to a …
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  • Reducing waiting times for cataract surgery is good value-for-money for falls prevention

    … the Health Quality and Safety Commission’s ‘Reducing harm from falls’ programme. High-level evidence also suggests that … risk factor assessment and interventions tailored to individual fallers’ risks help to prevent falls. A key risk factor is the presence of …
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  • Would a sugary fizzy drink tax reduce health inequalities? Probably Yes

    … reduction of salt in processed food or food reformulation to reduce sugar and satur The NZMA in its recent “Tackling … for poor and -0.9 for rich (and ignore cross-PE for now [how consumption of other products change]). Then, due to … differs between rich and poor (for a 20% increase in price from a tax): –      Post tax consumption of SSBs [poor]      …
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