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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … plan for other scenarios where thousands of New Zealanders are sick – including many urgently hospitalised. 1 Better … for hospital staff, medical centres and patients. Even with reduced private road traffic, two immediate policies to … have beneficial flow-on effects through the health system. What is the relation between alcohol and ED use? About 10% of …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could making tobacco products available only through community pharmacies help us get there?

    … after the number of retail outlets selling these products are greatly reduced, and sales are no longer allowed in … tobacco smoking in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) is massive – with an estimated 4790 (95% uncertainty interval [UI]: 4510 … are made available through community pharmacies. So what are the potential advantages and disadvantages of such …
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  • Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?

    … of cycling and walking, such as Amsterdam and Berlin, are exciting and dynamic places to live. The other benefits … are. Main findings from the new study Walking is the most common form of active transport; however the proportion of … (or not so well) at increasing walking and cycling and what they are doing to achieve this. We know from visiting or …
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  • Why NZ should consider adopting “mass masking” as an additional step to speed elimination of the Covid-19 pandemic

    … Widespread public mask use is common in some Asian countries as a control measure in the … benefit for such mask use. Since the costs of mass masking are relatively low and there are no apparent substantial … causing the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo supplied by Ling Chan with permission Transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 and …
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  • The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill – a chance to submit on pivotal legislation for health in Aotearoa

    … introduce institutional and governance arrangements which are likely to remain in place for at least the next two … input and potentially influence this pivotal legislation. What is in the Bill? Some of the critical components of the … Māori Health Authority. The NZ Health Charter will provide common values, principles, and behaviours for organisations …
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  • A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development

    … rapid investment in public and community housing. Māori are highly urbanised and face many systemic barriers to home … urban Infrastructure’s role in wellbeing All people have common wellbeing needs, yet wellbeing is shaped by individual … to fulfil its potential as an enabler of Māori wellbeing. What is new in this briefing? We present A …
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  • Alcohol-related harms now available on demand

    … in areas of high deprivation, and youth (15-24 years) are disproportionately impacted by this harm. 6-8 For Māori, … concerning given some of these services have no cap on what can be purchased. While none of the studied services offered “buy now, pay later” options, these are common overseas and without regulation, Aotearoa may follow …
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  • NZ’s COVID-19 response compared to selected other jurisdictions: Australia, Taiwan and the United States

    … in NZ has involved comparing NZ’s COVID-19 response with a range of other jurisdictions, especially: Australia, … considered in the context of the decline in weekly deaths associated with the lockdown response [2], most recently … in 2019 [3]. ** The reported case numbers for the US are likely to be major under-estimates. Eg, the true number …
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  • We need rapid progress on digital solutions to help eliminate COVID-19 from New Zealand

    … coordination that must be overcome if these innovations are to make substantial contributions to the pandemic … of solutions that address the key public health problems. In this blog, we discuss the potential priority … (4), so other areas require focus. Interventions and their associated digital solutions can be divided into two main …
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  • Protecting fresh waterways in Aotearoa/NZ: The strong Public Health case

    … hazardous microbes; (2) minimising cancer risk and other problems from nitrates in water; (3) avoiding algal blooms that are hazardous to health; (4) protecting mahinga kai uses … 5 years at a cost of approximately $1.3 million [1]). What health workers and agencies need to do now Given all …
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