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Advance Care Planning – good for patient care and better use of health dollars?
… Dr Ben Gray Advance Care Planning (or ACP) is the process of thinking about, talking about and planning for future health care and end of life care. In … issue of “futile care” is well summarised by Botha et al (1). The health sector is continually under financial pressure …
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Would reducing the number of tobacco retail outlets achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal?
… Figure 1. Map of current tobacco retailers in New Zealand (n=6000) … due to increasing cost of tobacco through travel time and costs – an economic methodology. There is a lot of … why there is growing interest in reducing the quantity and/or density of tobacco retail outlets and several …
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Media release: Urgent action needed: Aotearoa must accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer
… to set us on the path to eliminating cervical cancer and help create a future where almost no one in Aotearoa NZ … Society of New Zealand Medical Director Dr Kate Gregory and co-authors say we lag behind Australia and need a fully funded, equitable cervical cancer …
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Media release: Aotearoa NZ is on the brink of a measles epidemic: Urgent action needed
… because of falling immunisation rates, immunity gaps, and an increasing risk of imported cases according to public … Centre, University of Otago Professor Michael Baker and co-authors lay out the evidence showing New Zealand is … family measles immunity, and get vaccinated if susceptible or uncertain. Rapidly addressing immunity gaps, with the …
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Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study
… people. This work suggests that this approach (home-based or group-based exercise) is good value for money for the NZ … . Falls among older people are common, with high morbidity and mortality impacts. Yet there are interventions that can … loose rugs etc. It was also a ‘good buy’ (ICER = $9000 [ 1 ]), and even more so in one particular DHB that we studied: …
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Media release: NZ failing to protect children from unhealthy food marketing – new WHO guidelines
… in saturated fatty acids, trans-fatty acids, free sugars and/or salt to children. University of Auckland researcher, Dr … says WHO states restricting marketing should be mandatory and protect children of all ages and NZ does neither of these …
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Introducing the Public Health Solutions Blog Series
… on health services as a result of deferred routine care and long covid (which will need ongoing multidisciplinary … years with higher levels of psychological distress and an increase in demand for mental health services . Long … for our health professionals. There are no easy or quick fixes to this. We cannot recruit or train our way …
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Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact
… smoking prevalence in 2020 will be 21.4% for Māori and to 8.9% for non-Māori – compared to a projected 22.7% and … health and generating savings on health care spending (1-3). Within the last decade in NZ, tobacco taxes were first … into the future with tobacco reaching a very high price, or changes in the market share of nicotine-containing …
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Media release: Poor ventilation on buses and trains – a fixable risk to health
… Poor ventilation on our buses and trains is leading to an increased risk of passing on … poor ventilation was recorded 94% of the time on buses and 77% on trains. These results show that passengers in these buses and trains are doing a lot of re-breathing of other people’s …
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Warmest New Zealand winter ever recorded – The Government should do more on climate change
… to NIWA scientists . They also list 29 cities, towns and other sites around the country which had the highest … electricity bills, less air pollution from domestic fires, and perhaps even fewer excess winter deaths (a documented … country, especially for low-income New Zealanders ). Image 1: Warmer temperatures can be nice for some – but drought may …
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