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  • Running into Trouble: COVID-19 in Japan during the Tokyo Olympics

    … the indirect effects on global health and equity. Lessons from this event are also discussed. These concerns have also … schools, high schools, and special needs schools close from 2 March 2020 onward. 6 This measure was adopted by all … that citizens reduce social interactions and refrain from leaving home, if possible. 6 Likewise, non-essential …
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  • Five key reasons why NZ should have an official inquiry into the response to the COVID-19 pandemic

    … It ultimately sustained one of the lowest mortality rates from COVID-19 in the OECD (just above Australia), but it went … ultimately reduce the total health and economic fallout from the lockdown and international travel restrictions. … to various forms of hardship including mental distress, food insecurity, and domestic violence. 4 The lockdown would …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: Important findings from 2023-24 NZ Health Survey

    … vaping prevalence among adults aged ≥15 years increased from 3.5% in 2019/20 to 11.1% in 2023/24. Vaping prevalence … people who do not smoke (particularly young people) from highly addictive products and also support people who … This Briefing summarises key updates on vaping prevalence from the 2023/24 New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS). An …
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  • Sustained Resilience: the impact of nuclear war on New Zealand and how to mitigate catastrophe

    … by nuclear war could shift the state of NZ society from one of flourishing to one of mere survival. We detail … potential climate impacts and the consequences for NZ food production in a recent blog post,  Putin and the Bomb . … or if inequality is perceived. People seeking escape from war and famine may try to arrive by force, or bring …
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  • Long COVID: Century-old Lessons We Still Have Not Learned

    … the history of the pandemic that we have allowed to fade from memory, it “probably marked the beginning of the practice of mask-wearing to protect others from one’s own germs” 1 . In Japan, mask use was compulsory … said, “masks have left little trace in the written records from 1918” (personal communication June 22, 2022). One of the …
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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … There will need to be a major change in the way the food industry formulates foods to achieve 10% let alone 5% of total energy intake a day from sugar. As is widely known, sugar causes tooth decay and … review . Other evidence for health impacts comes from a meta-analysis of sugar and obesity  by Te Morenga, …
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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … other factors, such as the social and economic disruption from such an Omicron outbreak, should also be important … and marked reduction of incoming international flights from some countries (ie, until their outbreaks subside in … there is a period of “extreme stress” (≥60% occupancy) from February to April (Figure 24.1 in IHME’s NZ report). In …
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  • NZ’s Quitline Service is value-for-money: But how does it compare with other tobacco control actions in a league table?

    … on past NZ Quitline data and health system costs were from a national dataset linking individual health events to … the management of the Quitline has recently changed from the one we used for parameter inputs to a new service, … exist). Our model also does not include the reduced harm from second-hand-smoke and various other benefits (eg, …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … This blog presents key findings from a modelling study where we estimated the impact that … of the likely impact of a denicotinisation policy from a New Zealand modelling study that we recently published … denicotinisation law passed in 2022 and was implemented from 1 March 2023 Smoking and vaping prevalence trends (BAU) …
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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … potentially some home quarantine) for people travelling from Auckland to other parts of NZ to help maintain … causing Covid-19 by someone fully vaccinated who arrived from overseas this morning, or from an average Aucklander who happens to be there at the …
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