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  • Nourishing futures: How micronutrients improve pregnancy outcomes, reduce healthcare costs

    … the need to consider improving nutrition in pregnancy (e.g., vouchers for whole foods), and for consideration around … would need to be balanced with potential downsides e.g., those of: Risk of over-supplementation since excessive doses of fat-soluble vitamins (e.g., A, D, E, K) can accumulate in the body and harm the …
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  • Living longer, living healthier? Latest Official Report on independent life expectancy in NZ

    … for Europeans at the start of the industrial revolution (i.e. before spending six months on a leaky boat travelling to … The Disability Survey is based on ‘objective’ questions (e.g. concerning assistance needed in activities of daily … expectancy it reduced by about half a percentage point (i.e. there was modest expansion of morbidity). However this …
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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … of a Government agency ensuring maximum bang for buck (i.e. efficiency) within a given funding envelope.  So … successful that from 2015 it will take on medical devices (e.g. hip prostheses and heart valves) as well.  Like any other prioritisation agency within health (e.g. the National Health Committee in New Zealand, or the …
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  • Phasing out smoking: The Tobacco-Free Generation policy

    … addictive. Other products found to be harmful to health (e.g. asbestos, leaded petrol) have been phased out using … combination with other proposals in the draft Action Plan (e.g. taking the nicotine out of tobacco , retail outlet … in communities where adult smoking remains prevalent (e.g. Māori and Pacific communities) (Gendall et al, 2014), …
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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … hypothesize that cancers with very good survival already (e.g. early stage breast cancer), or very poor survival with little treatment effectiveness (e.g. pancreatic cancer), will benefit less from the addition … treatments are effective, and faster receipt should help (e.g. chemotherapy after surgery, which can stir up …
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  • Social advantage associated with greenhouse emissions from transport in Aotearoa

    … is, the higher their emissions from household travel (i.e. personal travel for work, leisure and other reasons). It … of vehicle ownership, air travel, reasons for travel (e.g. paid work, unpaid work and leisure) – people who reside … harm the environment and other people’s health (e.g. through air pollution emissions). However, it is not …
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  • Climate Change and Recent Actions of NZ Political Parties

    … political party past actions related to climate change (i.e., not media statements or speeches in Parliament but actual … impacts on climate change; and Various internet searches, e.g. for involvement in a key report [4] and attendance at … the Green Party and Labour issued many media releases (e.g.  see here ) criticising National’s actions or lack of …
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  • What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.

    … Second, we changed either or both the initiation (i.e. prevalence among 20 year olds) and cessation rates, and … in the final stages of the endgame. Even increased use of e-cigarettes to help with quitting might contribute to …
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  • Dropping the ball on measles? Aotearoa must close an ‘immunity gap’ to avoid a measles epidemic

    … Age Number MMR*2 MMR*1 % Immune Cases % %  Number R e   N a b c= (a*.99)+(b*.9) d e= d/N f=1-(c+e) f*N f*12 0y 57,170 0 0 50.0% 0 50.0% 28,585  1-4y 245,190  …
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  • NZ compares well with other OECD countries in health & other areas: But scope for improvements

    … progressive policies by NZ society in recent decades e.g., around tobacco control and on-going improvements to the … beverages might be the best place to start (e.g., combined with using the revenue to fund healthy school … has many spill-over impacts on the rest of society (e.g., in terms of crime and social disruption). NZ still does …
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