For older people and frail people, the long-term benefit of medicines reduces and the potential for harm from adverse effects increases. When the benefit–risk balance changes in this way, medicine review and optimisation are important to simplify the therapeutic regimen, reduce inappropriate medicines and minimise risks. In this article, pharmacist prescriber Linda Bryant uses two case studies to illustrate important considerations during medicine reviews
For health of planet, people and budgets, ‘plant-based’ is best
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For health of planet, people and budgets, ‘plant-based’ is best
Thursday 23 January 2020, 10:04 AM

Climate and foods researcher Jono Drew at the Sustainable Healthcare Forum in Wellington last year
“A vegan diet in New Zealand reduces a person’s dietary greenhouse-gas impacts by a third”
A plant-based diet creates the least carbon emiss
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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References
https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP5996
Drew J, Cleghorn C, Macmillan A et al. Healthy and climate-friendly eating patterns in the New Zealand context. Environmental Health Perspectives 2020;128:1. Online 23 January