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  • A single shot to prevent cancer? HPV vaccine can!

    … (HPV) vaccine is woefully under-used in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). This is despite its excellent safety profile … 90% coverage in all sexes; 95% in higher risk groups. 3 New Zealand experience HPV vaccine was first used in NZ in …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: important findings from the 2023-24 New Zealand Health Survey

    … Summary New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2023/2024 were released … leading cause of preventable disease and death in Aotearoa New Zealand, with large, persisting, and unacceptable inequities …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks

    … our pre-election survey of political parties in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) about policies to strengthen the country's … policies that will strengthen the resilience of Aotearoa New Zealand to long - term global risks.” The responses from …
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  • Five lessons for Aotearoa NZ from the current COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales

    … large COVID-19 outbreak, driven by the Delta variant. The New South Wales Government is struggling to control the … in NSW since the outbreak began. In response to the new outbreak, the NSW Government made masks mandatory on … population Reported cases per 1 million population New Zealand 2913 26 5.1 ( 15 ) 5.1 569.4 Australia 37,755 947 …
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  • “100% Pure” – Public Health Goal Setting

    … to public health – for example, by achieving Smokefree New Zealand by 2025. This blog suggests public health goals worth … human papilloma virus (HPV), measles, and rotavirus. New Zealand already has a few 100% elimination successes. It …
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  • Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study

    … we studied the impact of the NZ Government preventing new retail outlets from selling tobacco from 2020, while … options for NZ. Across the globe we’re seeing a stream of new nicotine products being brought onto the market and … new study described in this blog was provided by the New Zealand Cancer Society. [1] Copy available on request, please …
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  • NZ should prepare for a potentially severe global coronavirus pandemic

    … briefly summarise our assessment of the highly uncertain new coronavirus threat. Given its potential to become a … is much we still don’t know about the threat posed by this new coronavirus. It appears to be highly transmissible and is … modelling shows still kills about 500 people a year in New Zealand, a mortality risk of approximately 0.01% of the …
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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 … harm includes the premature deaths of more than 3300 adult New Zealanders and more than 13,100 hospital admissions for … latest iteration of the Health and Air Pollution in New Zealand Study (HAPINZ 3.0) has summed up the health costs of …
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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … of antiviral drugs. But given recent evidence from a new Cochrane systematic review – NZ policymakers should … review this approach. This blog discusses some of the new evidence and suggests options for a review process.New Zealand seems to have done a fairly good job of influenza …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … white people. The recently announced funding mechanism (New Zealand Government, 2021) had as its objective: The objective … a few services that are fully funded in this way for all New Zealanders. The main ones are maternity services, …
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