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  • Reducing the risk of Covid-19 transmission through the use of air purifiers

    … Indoor environments increase the risk of transmission for the virus that causes Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) by containment and concentration of the airborne virus. However, to reduce such transmission, … as an additional preventative measure to reduce the number of virus-laden particles. Ventilation and purification of …
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  • Covid-19 Case-Fatality Risk & Infection-Fatality Risk – important measures to help guide the pandemic response

    … Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The cumulative number of Covid-19 infections in NZ is not known, but if we assume … Covid-19 surveillance in order to improve estimates of CFR, IFR and other key indicators to help guide future … of the population having been infected (whether having symptoms or not). One estimate for seasonal influenza IFR in …
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  • Money down the drain: The high cost of leaking water pipes

    … Summary Access to clean drinking water is one of the most fundamental components of good public health. Leaking water infrastructure poses a … in Aotearoa New Zealand, we calculate the median price of water charged to households is $2.13 per cubic meter. …
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  • And now the Brits are doing it: A sugary drink tax levy on the industry

    … From 1 April 2018, the UK is putting in place a type of sugary drinks tax – actually a “soft drinks industry … This blog reviews how they are doing it, early signs of its success, and ponders its relevance for NZ.  We also … And here in NZ, the NZ Medical Association and the Heart Foundation recommend taxing sugary drinks. Yes, there …
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  • COVID-19 and Māori health – when equity is more than a word

    … we are extremely concerned about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our whānau and communities. We … they are avoidable. They demonstrate the Crown’s abject failure to “…avoid or overcome inequalities that infringe on … work to protect Māori health and place equity at the very heart of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Equity must …
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  • COVID-19, Christmas, the New Year and Summer Holidays: What the NZ Government and individuals can do to minimise the risks

    … summer holidays and Christmas celebrations, the impact of COVID-19 will surely be felt by all. In this blog we … that NZ will need to manage between now and the end of January: New Zealand’s domestic Delta variant outbreak and … in Europe , with COVID-19 becoming the leading cause of death, and life expectancy declining in Europe and North …
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  • Improving NZ Government communication about COVID-19: Five suggestions

    … high quality communication by the NZ Government for much of the COVID-19 pandemic has been remarked on. But given that … improvements could be made. Potentially the most important of these would be to further depoliticise the COVID-19 … services in the NZ community. As such, when a “border failure” occurs it should be entirely viewed as a “systems …
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  • A preventable measles epidemic: Lessons for reforming public health in NZ

    … problems created by long-term erosion and fragmentation of national public health capacity. Fortunately the present … provides an opportunity to describe and build the kind of public health capacity needed to manage measles, pandemics … to take action to raise immunisation coverage [ 5 ]. This failure to act on a public health priority results from the …
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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … impact on population health. Reflecting this, the Ministry of Health announced in May that it will investigate … the new regulatory framework, and proposes key features of a risk-proportionate approach. We argue the framework … we see an overwhelming need for much stronger regulation of smoked tobacco products, as these are vastly …
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  • E-bikes are the new cars- why don’t transport policy makers treat them seriously?

    … Sales are booming and predicted to overtake sales of new cars in a few years. There were three times as many … policy makers to encourage this low carbon, healthy form of transport. Research on of e-bikes has been growing as … vehicles. The underlying policy barrier to e-bikes is a failure of imagination There are a number of barriers to …
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