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  • Shifting all isolation/quarantine facilities to a single air force base: The need for a critical analysis

    … The main advantage would be a reduction in the risk of border control failures, which can potentially involve … impacts. The main disadvantage would be reduced numbers of returnees that could be allowed back into NZ, with these … problem has been seen most starkly with a hotel quarantine failure in Victoria, Australia. Here “the [vast] bulk of …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques

    … the recommended measures. This blog addresses critiques of the Plan; it discusses the potential role e-cigarettes … tobacco-control goal with origins in the vision of Māori leaders for a Tupeka Kore (tobacco-free) Aotearoa, … to achieve the 2025 goal has a very high risk of failure. On the positive side, there is some evidence from …
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  • What does art have to do with public health, and how can they work together?

    … time that the Public Health Summer School (University of Otago, Wellington) has considered art, and its … practitioners and academics. In this blog we consider some of the issues raised and build the case for ongoing … between the arts and public health. So what was the point of this eclectic gathering? Contemporary public health faces …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … smoking and quitting, support for, and perceived impacts of, key measures included in the Smokefree 2025 Action Plan Discussion Document , and data on use of illicit tobacco products. Introduction and methods The NZ … in the plan include: greatly reducing the availability of smoked tobacco products by permitting these products to be …
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  • Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: Five key ways to reduce the massive health and social costs

    … A new study has estimated the surprisingly high level of harm from air pollution. This annual harm includes the premature deaths of more than 3300 adult New Zealanders and more than 13,100 hospital admissions for respiratory illness and heart disease. The annual social costs resulting from this …
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  • Public health response to report on potential risk of nitrate from drinking water

    … Fonterra and MBIE, investigated the relative contributions of nitrate in our diet from water and food. The report comes … in drinking water or the diet present an increased risk of cancer.” In this blog, we explain why the evidence in this … Centre aimed to investigate the relative contributions of water and food to New Zealanders’ overall nitrate intake …
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  • NZ’s “Team of 5 million” has achieved the lowest COVID-19 death rate in the OECD – but there are still gaps in our pandemic response

    … the lowest death rate from the COVID-19 pandemic out of 37 OECD countries and appears to be the only one to … elimination at a national level. But despite the success of the “team of 5 million” – there are still a number of gaps … to early outbreak detection (eg, after a border control failure). Indeed, in the NZ setting, ESR has reported …
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  • What public health lessons can NZ still learn from the United States?

    … expensive health care system. However, the large number of state and local governments provide a wealth of potential lessons that NZ could learn from. In this blog we briefly consider some of these, particularly in the domains of support for …
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  • An Official Inquiry into the Covid-19 Pandemic Response – It’s Time and it’s Vital

    … Government has acknowledged the need for a formal review of the Covid-19 pandemic response. In this blog we explain … has lasting usefulness will depend on the depth and scope of the terms of reference, taking a forward-looking and … in an analysis of the 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake and the failure to learn from preceding NZ earthquakes. 13 Others …
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  • Using Rapid Antigen Tests to improve COVID-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … Figure 1: Rapid Antigen Test kit given out freely from the NHS in the UK Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Aotearoa New … swabs to collect specimens to test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19). These … viral particles in individuals before the start of symptoms or later in their infection is lower than RT-PCR …
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