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  • Time to stop dodging bullets? NZ’s eight recent border control failures

    … blog we briefly detail these failures and argue the case for an urgent review and upgrading of the country’s defences … worker were all infected in those MIQ facilities used for managing infected cases (as opposed to facilities used for quarantining people not known to be infected). One …
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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … addictive. Providing an alternative source of nicotine for the short-term relief of withdrawal symptoms or as a … aids. In this Briefing, we investigate the evidence for introducing these products to NZ.  Snus and smoking … physically harmful than cigarettes. 1 2 However, evidence for the efficacy of snus as a smoking cessation aid is mixed. …
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  • Glass half full: Alcohol’s health benefits for cardiovascular disease still controversial, and likely vary by context

    … published study of 400,000 European adults followed up for an average 13 years that reports a seemingly J-shape … distributed by alcohol consumption – the pink bars below, for some hypothetical population. This creates a delicate balancing act for working out the net effect of alcohol on population …
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  • A preventable measles epidemic: Lessons for reforming public health in NZ

    … pandemics and other population health threats. We argue for consolidating a range of dispersed public health … agency, Public Health Aotearoa , to take responsibility for the multiple public health challenges faced by NZ.   … an excellent opportunity to identify and build support for these necessary reforms [ 1 ]. The measles epidemic in NZ …
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  • NZ’s COVID-19 response compared to selected other jurisdictions: Australia, Taiwan and the United States

    … and the US. In this blog we update the data comparisons for these selected places. We find that Taiwan is the top … death rate that is around 1800 times lower than the US’s (for NZ the difference with the US is 136 times lower). … high quality performance still holds a number of lessons for NZ with its ongoing response. Previously we have reported …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … us make good decisions in difficult situations so that, for example, the need to impose restrictive measures and to … response to Wilson and Baker’s timely piece on preparing for a potentially severe novel coronavirus (COVID-19) … and 2 of the New Zealand (Influenza) Pandemic Plan : ‘plan for it’, and ‘keep it out’ or border management. Soon we …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … due to inaction from successive Governments and calls for this to change. Food environments influence the food we buy and eat, so are a key intervention area for improving population nutrition and diet-related health … in health.   INFORMAS (the International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases Research, …
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  • Ten things we can learn from new smoking and vaping data about progress to Smokefree Aotearoa 2025

    … urgent action, particularly to reduce marked disparities for Māori and Pacific peoples. The data also show increased … conducted in 2006/7 and annually from 2011/12 to 2018/19. For simplicity only data and graphs available from the … trends Overall smoking prevalence in 2018/19 was 12.5% for daily smoking (490,000 smokers) and 14.2% for current …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks

    … Summary Will the next Government be ready for the future? In this Briefing we analyse responses to our … concern by this country’s political parties about the need for planning and actions to address plausible global … entire nation? We need to think seriously about and plan for these risks as well as those posed by the catastrophes …
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  • A new online calculator for estimating how much a society might spend on life-saving interventions

    … health interventions, while remaining cost-effective. For NZ, the amounts generated by this calculator vary greatly by age: NZ$ 1.2 million for an intervention to save the life of a child, NZ$ 0.7 million for a 50-year-old, and NZ$ 0.2 million for an 80-year-old, …
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