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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … Government’s 2012 Budget included $33 million for “better and faster” services for cancer patients, of which $16 million dollars was for care coordination … For care coordinators we used good quality evidence on incidence, survival and coverage and time to treatment …
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  • A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data

    … a study that looks at two historical datasets – with one of these suggesting life span differences by occupational … a 2.1-year reduction in life expectancy between ages 40 and 85 years. In NZ, absolute differences in life expectancy … life expectancy and 7.2 years for females [7]. But data on the historical relationship between SEP and health for NZ …
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  • Action needed to halt New Zealand’s obesity epidemic: Themes from Big Food Symposium

    … International and national public health experts and delegates met on Monday this week to consider how to address New Zealand’s … initiative recently announced by the Minister of Health, they stress the critical need to focus on upstream …
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  • Patterns of declining smoking in NZ – But more action needed by the New Government

    … Survey indicate ongoing declines in smoking for Māori and for European New Zealanders. In this blog we comment on the possible reasons for these trends and describe recent … recent ongoing declines in smoking, with a graph below of the trends since 2012 (tabulated data in the Appendix). …
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  • Being Bolder – Public Health Endgames for NZ

    … At the Public Health Congress in Auckland last week, one of us presented on potential public health endgames – partly to inform … This blog post provides a brief historical perspective and international perspective on public health-related …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … This blog takes a brief look at this new evidence and puts it into a NZ context. Nitrate is one of the most common drinking water contaminants in NZ, largely … nitrate levels as low as 0.87 mg/L NO3-N (from here on simply mg/L) in drinking water to bowel cancer have raised …
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  • Alcohol and suicide: The facts

    … Alcohol use often exacerbates mental health problems and is a well-known risk factor for suicide. Health experts … and harmful statements to the contrary made by Mike King on Wednesday and  Thursday . This Briefing corrects the … international evidence.   There is a well-established body of research from New Zealand and overseas that clearly links …
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  • Strengthening tobacco policy: The case for best practice packaging and regulation

    … tobacco companies strongly opposed the introduction of plain (or standardised) packaging, this measure increased … Strengthening policies regulating tobacco packaging and product design could further reduce smoking uptake while … work , published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, builds on international evidence that could enhance existing …
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  • Unaffordable home heating increases risk of severe mental distress

    … Summary The cost-of-living crisis is placing more people at risk of being … impacts. If we don’t put in place further economic support and policies to protect vulnerable energy consumers so that … seeing more evidence that it can have a negative impact on mental health as well. What does the latest research say? …
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  • Lessons From history: Helping New Zealand prepare for future influenza pandemics

    … Crowding on this NZ troopship (the Tahiti) may have contributed to a … in the last 100 years that have reached New Zealand. Of these, the 1918 one was by far the most severe – in fact … the potential for severe ones to cause high death rates and overwhelm health services. Such pandemics could even pose …
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