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  • Period Drama: How to Address Period Poverty in Aotearoa

    … tampons or pads stops people from going to work or school 1-2 . Period poverty refers to the specific impact of … girls, women, trans, and non-binary people who menstruate 1 . Period poverty is a public health and health equity issue … unsafe alternatives that can cause health problems 1-4 . Absenteeism due to period poverty can also affect …
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  • Backing off international infant formula standards: A retrograde step

    … rates consistently lower for Māori and Pacific people. 1  Increasing exclusivity and duration of breastfeeding is … equity and increase population health and wellbeing. 1 Aggressive marketing of lucrative commercial milk formula, … marketing and distribution of products. (See Appendix 1 )  UNICEF highlights industry arguments against national …
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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … to reduce smoking among Māori and Pacific peoples [1-3]. That said, smoking prevalence among adults is decreasing (Table 1), and the decrease accelerated modestly among Māori and … to 11% and daily smoking from 10.3% to 5.3% [4, 5]. Table 1  Trends in current smoking prevalence in 2006/7, 2011/12 …
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  • Patterns of declining smoking in NZ – But more action needed by the New Government

    … trend data from other sources such as the Census [1] and declining cigarette sales data. We plan to do more … analyses of these trends and update our past work [1] when next year’s Census results are available. But in the … Mean annual reduction for the 5 year period Māori 40.2 39.1 40.9 38.1 38.6 35.3 4.9 1.0 Pacific 25.9 24.6 24.7 24.7 …
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  • Update on Long-COVID

    … media also played a part, as noted by Callard and Perego 1 , the syndrome acquired its name as a result of sufferers … 18-65 with continuous enrolment in the health plan from 1 January 2019 to the index date, defined as the date of the … this was 4.95% higher than the 2020 comparator group and 1.65% higher than among individuals diagnosed as having viral …
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  • Does healthy food really cost more?

    … measure the cost of healthy versus unhealthy foods. Table 1 outlines commonly used metrics and summarises the pros and cons of each. Table 1: Pros and cons of price metrics So how do shoppers measure … appeal for the average NZ household. Wilson et al (2013) (1) identified a low-cost diet for NZ$3.17 a day but when more …
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  • COVID-19 hospitalisation peaks in Australian States since Omicron emerged: potential relevance to Aotearoa NZ

    … to NZ on a per capita basis would suggest peaks of 1,107 people in NZ hospitals and 90 people in ICUs. We also … NZ on a per capita level (Table). The time period is from 1 December 2021 to 31 January 2022 which we suggests captures … in NZ, we could expect to see peak hospitalisation reach 1,792 and 136 in ICU in NZ. However, peak hospitalisation per …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … farming has increased substantially since 1990 (see Figure 1). Recent studies linking nitrate levels as low as 0.87 mg/L … have raised public concerns over nitrate contamination. 1-3 Our recent study of the current nitrate levels in NZ … people could be on water supplies with nitrate above 1 mg/L. These nitrate levels are far below the current …
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  • Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?

    … in the international journal  BMC Infectious Diseases  (1). This blog briefly examines how a possible population … be more common among Māori and Pacific peoples (2) (Figure 1) , Figure 1: Stomach cancer incidence rates over time by sex and …
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  • Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts

    … for months or years following a Covid-19 infection. 1 Long Covid affects multiple organs and systems in the body … Long Covid is estimated at around 6-7% of all adults . 1 Many affected people are unable to work and drop out of the workforce altogether. 1-3 Those who remain in the workforce may find themselves …
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