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Media release: Long Covid could be costing NZ $2 billion a year in lost productivity: Experts urge preventive action
… of Aotearoa New Zealand at least NZ$2 billion per year from reduced worker productivity, and that’s excluding health … economy approximately AU$9.6 billion, equivalent to 0.5% of Australia’s GDP. And that’s a conservative … for policymakers to make informed decisions about how to efficiently and equitably protect New Zealanders from …
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Media release: NZ could eliminate the deadly meningococcal disease
… potentially an achievable goal for Aotearoa NZ according to infectious disease experts. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, University of … Associate Professor Amanda Kvalsvig and colleagues look at how NZ could be permanently free of this disease and its …
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Media release: Urgent action needed: Aotearoa must accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer
… The Government needs to take action to set us on the path to eliminating cervical cancer and help … create a future where almost no one in Aotearoa NZ dies from this now-preventable disease. In the latest Briefing …
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Climate change and cherry blossom
… on the full chapter is available at the Lancet. Listen to Alistair on Radio NZ’s Nine to Noon programme just after … sticky issues that slowed down progress at Yokohama. How do we represent effects of climate change that are almost … The new assessment concluded that there may be some gains from climate change (such as reduced cold-related morbidity …
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New Zealand doing okay in cancer survival: Results from the largest ever cross-national comparison of cancer survival
… We are usually worse than the country we love (or hate?) to compare ourselves with, Australia. Conversely, we are … in the UK is often lowest – an embarrassing statistic from the UK’s perspective that galvanised the implementation … Likewise Sweden and the USA. Third, it may be surprising how well South Korea is doing. This is particularly so for …
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New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective
… Lancet journal has been touted in the media as showing how good e-cigarettes are for people wanting to quit smoking. This is overstating the study findings. And … It might include regulating the removal of nicotine from cigarettes to reduce their addictiveness. It might …
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Media release: Our fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care
… the benefits of vaccination and the value of measures to help reduce transmission. Professor Baker and other public health experts from the University of Otago look at the numbers in the … Centre . These data indicate there could be up to 12,000 hospitalisations and more than 1,000 deaths this …
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Media release: Decades-old nutrition data leave NZ in the dark
… and food industry experts are calling on the Government to urgently fund a new National Nutrition Survey (NNS) to … and tackling rising diet-related diseases. What we eat and how has changed dramatically since the last NNS survey 20 … nutrition trends , say researchers in the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . Briefing …
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A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away
… in Brisbane this week, teaching epidemiological methods to improve the quality and causal inference of our research – … the ratio of things like omega 3 to omega 6 fats; how high the percentage of saturated fat is in the diet – it … also include lots of salt). Actually, not that different from those well-known dietary experts (!) Morgan and Simmons …
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Why don’t we make rental housing safer?
… enforce safety for rental housing when the evidence points to cost-effective interventions? We unpack the narrative … a handrail on stairs that have been constructed to allow ‘safe access from one level to another’, as well as adequate lighting. …
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