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  • NZ should prepare for a potentially severe global coronavirus pandemic

    … 5 February was 2/191 = 1.0% (95% confidence interval = 0.3% to 3.7%). But this risk is for typically relatively healthy … and usually affecting a large number of people” [3]). With pandemics that may spread to infect much of the …
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  • Progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Congratulations to the Government

    … retailers are heavily concentrated in disadvantaged areas. 3 NZ modelling studies suggest that greatly reducing the … Canada, and emerging evidence of positive impacts. 18   3. Reducing retail availability: “Introduce a Smokefree …
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  • Backing off international infant formula standards: A retrograde step

    … Code and presents counter arguments to these claims. 3,4 (Figure 1)  Figure 1 United Nations Children’s Fund … that is free from commercial influence (see Appendix 3 ). Informed decision-making needs accurate, evidence-based … outcomes match those of other New Zealanders. Appendix 3: What is important for parents to know about infant formula …
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  • A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data

    … are also strong for small area deprivation and education [3, 4]. The ethnic health inequalities in NZ are even more … that men in the three highest occupational classes lived 3.5 years longer (95% CI: 0.3-6.8 years) than the three lowest classes (in the …
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  • Reducing nicotine in smoked tobacco products: A pivotal feature of the Smokefree Aotearoa proposals

    … having quit smoking, occasionally smoke a cigarette. 1-3 It aligns with the 2010 Māori Affairs Select Committee … reviews and commentaries and many individual studies, 1-3 11-33 have investigated the impact of very low nicotine … from 2013 was that illicit products made up only 1.8-3.8% of the NZ market. 48 Commentators have noted that any …
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  • New modelling on the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in NZ associated with arriving travellers

    … outbreak of 2.5 months (95% range of simulation results: 3 days to 1.1 years). This risk was equivalent to an average … PCR test of saliva, three subsequent PCR tests (on days 1, 3 & 12 while in the community in NZ), and various other … (e.g., the B.1.617.1 currently spreading in Melbourne 3 ) and if international travel volumes are increased. …
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  • Testing for COVID-19 in NZ to achieve the elimination goal

    … study estimated 5-10 undetected cases per detected case [3]. Furthermore, a majority of symptomatic cases appear to … health authorities ( https://www.covid.is/data ). 3) Testing of asymptomatic people identified based on their … contacts of cases; (2) healthcare workers; and (3) other essential workers who continue to have regular …
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  • Energy poverty: The lowest-income households pay more in Aotearoa

    … NZ – evidenced by excess winter deaths compared to summer. 3 A multi-country analysis found that in temperate countries … income on electricity. The wealthiest 10% spend only 1.3% (Figure 2).   Between 2010 and 2019, those households with … slightly decreased for most other income groups (Figure 3). Our research highlights that this is because those most …
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  • Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

    … agency, has been funded in the Budget to build an extra 3,000 new public homes on top of the 14,050 homes which have … March last year and this year, but the newly funded 3,000 houses, alongside the houses near completion, will …
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  • More than 147km – the transformative potential of the Wellington bike network plan

    … temporary infrastructure (e.g., planter boxes) in the next 3 years, to be gradually hard engineered into the fabric of …
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