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Charting our way back to normal
… weigh the costs and benefits of different policy responses as Australia rolls out vaccines and considers opening … giving us some space to learn from other countries as they aggressively roll out emergency vaccination programs. … an infected person is roughly likely to infect between 2.5 and three others when there is no immunity) and the policy …
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A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development
… natural nurseries) and social and cultural amenities, as well as opportunities for work and learning. Consideration also … of urban infrastructure that helps optimise wellbeing, 5 housing is critical, particularly as home is where whānau …
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New report shows how regional plans could transform freshwater quality
… failure points to a solution The Report’s summary reads as a list of regulatory failures, particularly by Environment … failure highlights its own solution. So while damning (as the headline of the Report’s only media coverage read) , … losses might be” (Ministry for Primary Industries, 2021, p.5). The inverse of regulating the modelling of farm outputs …
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Establishing Long COVID services in Aotearoa NZ – what can we learn from overseas?
… Long COVID (described in an earlier blog ), is defined as highly variable symptoms in individuals with previous … and the unknowns about the impact of the Omicron variant. As far as we are aware, there are no specific services for people …
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Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable
… public health impacts of increased speed limits, such as discouraging active communities by stifling walking and cycling. It is also unfair, as faster speeds disproportionately benefit drivers, while … around 12% of pedestrians struck will die. At 30km/h, only 5% will die. The Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits …
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Key findings on smoking and e-cigarette use prevalence and trends in the 2020/21 NZ Health Survey
… 2019/20 to 2020/21, daily smoking prevalence fell by 2.5% and current smoking prevalence by 2.8%. Figure 1 Trends in … it is difficult to quantify this increase using these data as simply summing current smoking and EC use prevalences will … daily smoking prevalence in 2020/21 were more than twice as large as for any other years since 2011/12. However, …
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Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”
… years ago. Now I am your Australian correspondent. Life as an epidemiologist and public health medicine specialist in Victoria, as a person who is new to the State, and not part of the … a conundrum. By pretty good design (we did not lockdown as hard as in NZ) and probably a fair amount of luck, it …
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An upgraded Alert Level 2 is urgently needed to address the Delta Variant threat
… at Alert Level 3) to eliminate community transmission. As NZ plans moves down the Alert Levels in coming weeks, now … when coupled with extensive public health measures such as physical distancing, mass masking, and vaccination. Even … builds on ideas in a recent paper for the NZ context [5]). Regardless of how the Alert Levels are labelled, the key …
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Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal
… published NZ-based modelling work has explored business-as-usual trends in smoking prevalence, and the potential roles of interventions such as higher regular tobacco tax increases in achieving the NZ … support by the public for tobacco endgame strategies (1-5), or at least for increased government action on tobacco …
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World Ventil8 Day – How do our buildings measure up?
… aims to raise awareness of the importance of ventilation as a crucial part of enabling health and wellbeing. Breathing … fresh air into indoor spaces while removing stale air. As people spend around 90% of their day indoors, the air we … to headaches, poor concentration, nausea, and sleepiness. 5 In addition, if someone in the room has a respiratory …
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