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  • Media release: Energy poverty: Low-income households hit hardest by rising power costs

    … on electricity costs in NZ, yet many are still unable to meet basic energy needs according to public health … performance of housing. This gives a better idea of how much electricity is needed to power a home to keep it at a safe indoor temperature of at least 18 o C.  “New Zealand has …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … published in last Friday’s NZ Medical Journal that tried to answer that question from a NZ public health perspective. In this blog we discuss … are the two leading risk factors leading to health loss [1]. The key ways to address these are …
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  • Ventilation in NZ schools during the Omicron wave – results from a preliminary study

    … cases in children increasing exponentially, 1 2 leading to large numbers of child hospitalisations, including ICU … reduces the number of virus particles available to infect a person . In addition to ventilation, masks … classroom structure. Figure 1 demonstrates CO 2 levels from two primary school classrooms (at the same school) of …
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  • Media release: Plugging the gap: Aotearoa’s piped water loss far worse than global leaders

    … at a rate far higher than global leaders, posing risks to public health and wasting around $122 million each year according to the  latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . Research by …
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  • Highly variable cost-effectiveness with disease characteristics and age: Herceptin as a Case Study

    … targets that receptor. PHARMAC’s decision in 2006-2008 to fund the nine-week course of Herceptin rather than the … as a starting-point, we chose to ask a deeper question: how does the cost-effectiveness of Herceptin vary by type … – the smaller the envelope of potential health gain from treatment. So how did the cost-effectiveness of …
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  • Likely rise in invasive strep infections in NZ requires a strategy

    … notifiable would support immediate public health actions to control disease spread and provide a robust basis for effective surveillance to identify changes in iGAS incidence and distribution. Group … disease) . Globally more than 18 million people suffer from serious GAS disease with an associated 500,000 deaths …
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  • Aotearoa’s perinatal and maternal death rates remain inequitable and unjust

    … perinatal mortality over the years of 2006-2021 according to the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee’s … continue in perinatal and maternal outcomes relating to demographic and socioeconomic factors, including ethnicity … Since 2006, data has been collected on every fetal death from 20 weeks’ gestation (or over 400g if gestation is …
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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … a steep decline in the mental wellbeing of youth. Findings from New Zealand-specific research paint a similar picture.  … burden on young adults. We also recommend commitment to training and supporting more youth-friendly clinicians, … and local evidence offers us clear examples of how we can listen to young people’s voices in designing …
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  • The COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa/NZ: A brief photo-essay with 10 photos

    … action. The distinguishing feature of the NZ response to COVID-19 was that the Government listened to science input and changed direction from the mitigation approach of its pandemic influenza plan …
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  • Concluding the Public Health Solutions Series 

    … health interventions the G overnment can put in place to reduce pressure on the health system.        As … with the relaxing of covid rules this issue is unlikely to ease in the near future. The ongoing demands of Covid-19, … experiencing health workforce shortages. It is easy to see how this ongoing strain on the health system will lead to …
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