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  • How taking an evidence-informed approach can be used to prioritise interventions: The example of cardiovascular disease

    … decisions about which health priorities to focus on, and how to achieve maximum health gains. In this Briefing we … and disability combined in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). 1 Stroke is ranked fifth. Both ischaemic heart disease and … of the broader category of cardiovascular disease, or CVD. Each year CVD is estimated to cause nearly 12,000 …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks

    … the country's resilience to long - term global risks and their intention to introduce a Global Catastrophic Risk … environment and communities requires looking to a 50- or 100-year horizon, not just the next election. Short-term … including those from nuclear war and climate change. 1 Given this background, we included questions on these …
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  • Preventing outbreaks of COVID-19 in NZ associated with air travel from Australia: New Modelling study of alternatives to quarantine

    … infection) to NZ. We found that the combined use of exit and entry screening, two PCR tests (on days 3 and 12 in NZ), … contact tracing, reduced the risk from one outbreak every 1.7 years (no interventions) to every 29.8 years (95% … outbreak every 3.0 years for using PCR testing and masks or 3.4 years for the quarantine intervention. A full …
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  • Clean ups are not enough: Government policy incoherent on climate change

    … climate, it is important not to simply try to maintain or return to what was. Instead, we need the Government of … greenhouse gas emissions put communities in this country and internationally at increased risk from climate change … Hawkes Bay left hundreds of homes damaged, many severely. 1 The Minister for Emergency Management, Mark Mitchell, said …
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  • Tobacco industry interference: Is the new Government meeting its international obligations?

    … to engaging with the tobacco industry only as required and specifies any engagement with tobacco companies must be … protect citizens from the harms their products cause. 1 They have made misleading or false assertions, 2 lobbied and influenced …
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  • New modelling on the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in NZ associated with arriving travellers

    … risks go up if there are larger outbreaks in Australia and especially for travel from other countries (e.g., from an “amber zone” country like Japan or a “red zone” country as per the US during 2020) where … “Scientific Reports”, a peer-reviewed open access journal. 1 In this work we aimed to estimate the risk of COVID-19 …
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  • Aotearoa’s perinatal and maternal death rates remain inequitable and unjust

    … over the years of 2006-2021 according to the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee’s Annual Report.   … (PMMRC) has recently published its latest Annual Report. 1  It acknowledges the individuals and whānau affected by the … collected on every fetal death from 20 weeks’ gestation (or over 400g if gestation is unknown), neonatal deaths (up to …
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  • Tax reform pros & cons: A brief look from a Public Health perspective

    … Ralph Chapman Tax policies have major impacts on society and designing such policies is complex. But if the … spending, how important goals such as health, well-being or the state of the environment really are, the extent to … more than a billion dollars a year in other tax cuts” (1). For some of the issues in our table we lack detailed …
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  • Why a “mouth and nose” lockdown with masks might help avoid a “full body” lockdown at home

    … The concepts of an Alert Level system, household “bubbles”, and social event size limits are all valuable pandemic … 52 out of 61 people being infected from a single case [1]. Air currents have also been implicated in a restaurant … and successful suppression of daily case growth rates and/or reduction from peak daily case growth rates”. The authors …
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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … of Covid-19 in NZ by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. This work suggests that in an outbreak that … March 2022. Cumulative additional deaths might be 400 by 1 May, near the end of the outbreak (peaking at 10 deaths per … no information on differential health impacts by ethnicity or socio-economic status (yet avoiding health inequities are …
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Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)