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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate refines
Heatwave exposure of infants and older adults rose in Australia and New Zealand, 2016–2025
In 2021–2025, climate change accounted for 65% of heatwave days in Australia and 73% in New Zealand.
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Health todayMental health refines
Borderline personality disorder linked to near six-fold all-cause mortality in New Zealand
In 10,059 New Zealanders with borderline personality disorder, all-cause mortality was 5.8 times the general population rate.
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Data, models and systemsWhat linked data reveals new
Respiratory infection hospitalisation risk in New Zealand predicted by gradient boosting
Gradient boosting models using demographics, morbidity indices and influenza vaccination status separated people with and without a respiratory infection hospitalisation, across about 5 million New Zealanders each year.
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Health todayCancer confirms
Head and neck cancer in New Zealand: rising oropharyngeal rates and unequal early deaths
New Zealand oropharyngeal cancer rates rose in 2009-2020, with higher two-year deaths for Māori, Pacific Peoples and the most deprived.
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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record refines
Pandemic excess deaths were partly offset by a death deficit in 2024 and 2025
Across 38 countries with reliable death registration, excess deaths of 1.99-2.88 million in 2020-2023 were followed by a deficit of 0.39-1.08 million in 2024-2025.
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Data, models and systemsHealth systems and access refines
Longer stays tracked higher death and longer waits lower, a triage artefact
A retrospective analysis of 593,673 emergency presentations at a New Zealand hospital between 2016 and 2024 found longer departmental stays associated with worse outcomes and longer waiting times associated with better ones, reflecting triage order rather than any effect of waiting.
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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record new
New Zealand had few excess deaths through the pandemic and its aftermath
A model fitted to 22 years of monthly death counts estimates that New Zealand had few excess deaths during the pandemic, and was back to pre-pandemic mortality by 2025.
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