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Is the New Zealand Health System Being Privatized by Stealth?
30 August 2022 , revised 6 February 2025 Health systems around the world can fall anywhere on a spectrum from what was once the totally...
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Feb 65 min read


Smoking and COVID-19
Dr Victor Luca Published, Whakatāne Beacon, Wednesday 29-Dec-21 Air pollution is a leading cause of global mortality, being responsible...
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Jan 17, 20223 min read


NZ Health System Under the Microscope
Victor Luca, 22-Oct-20. The NZ health system is a mixed public-private system. A modern health system is a complex machine with many...
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Oct 21, 20201 min read


Our Health System in the Age of COVID-19
Victor Luca, 28-Sep-20. Published, The Beacon, 9-Oct-20. I have always been exceedingly grateful that we have in our country an...
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Oct 8, 20205 min read


Our Health System and its Lack of Pandemic Preparedness
Victor Luca, 18-Aug-20. Unpublished Despite the priveleged position we find ourselves in during this COVID-19 pandemic, we didn't get it...
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Aug 18, 20206 min read


Healthcare and Health Inequity in Aotearoa
Victor Luca, 4-Feb-20. During the most recent local body election cycle in our district I was asked at a September 2019 BOPDHB public...
vicluca
Feb 4, 20209 min read
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