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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … strategy, as opposed to NZ’s elimination strategy [2]. Credit is owed to political leadership, science advisors, … at all about them as individuals – but rather are focused on system design issues. In this blog we focus on one … 7 events across 5 facilities” [7]. Unfortunately, that report from the Ministry of Health, which received wide media …
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  • Should you swap sugar for artificial sweetener? Maybe not if you’re a mouse, but what if you’re a human?

    … http://www.life-enhancement.com Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’ll be aware that sugar and its negative impact on dental caries, body weight, and other long-term health … the evidence for artificial sweeteners and their impact on body weight and metabolism – one a lab experiment on mice …
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  • New modelling on the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in NZ associated with arriving travellers

    … In this blog we detailed our just published modelling work on estimating the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks associated with … and outbreaks in NZ from arriving passengers based on the level of virus transmission and other factors in the … pre-flight PCR test of saliva, three subsequent PCR tests (on days 1, 3 & 12 while in the community in NZ), and various …
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  • COVID-19 in Aotearoa: what does public health do now?

    … to the activities that will make the greatest impact on protecting and improving population health.   Through … the rising case numbers. The type of response required for 500 or 1000 cases a day depends greatly on who they are. … Hauora Māori, Department of Māori Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland …
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  • Mounting complexities in the dietary salt & health relationship

    … A large prospective study on dietary salt and health has recently been reported in the … here. Our interpretation should be treated as preliminary on what may be an important study; therefore, we welcome and … extent (7). In particular, a recent Institute of Medicine Report (8) highlighted the uncertainty around the health …
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  • Open data, transparency and power – role of the Virtual Health Information Network

    … The NZ Government is showing strong leadership on data sharing. In this blog we describe some of the … and the challenges in this new data environment. We focus on how the Virtual Health Information Network (VHIN) can … demonstrate a benefit to the public. Data are protected under the Statistics Act 1975 and the Privacy Act 1993. …
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  • Urgent measures needed to allow the safe re-opening of Auckland schools

    … guidance and physical distancing. A premature return to on-site learning in schools, particularly in areas of … of all cases have occurred in children and young people under 20 years old, driven largely by transmission from … people, unvaccinated adults and people with chronic medical conditions. Vaccination uptake amongst Māori and …
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  • Proposed Emissions Reduction Plan: A weak response to a weak target

    … to be effective in reducing emissions. It relies instead on emissions trading and technological advances, the latter … Reduction Plan (ERP2) is our international commitment under the Paris Climate Agreement (2016), the Nationally … domestic emission targets and international commitments under the NDC. Given a petrol or diesel vehicle purchased …
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  • Taxes on fizzy drinks in NZ: preventing premature deaths and raising funds for health

    … 1 ]).  Today some of us have published research in the NZ Medical Journal that finds that about 67 premature deaths a year might be prevented by a 20% tax on fizzy drinks. And that there might be up to $40 million of … interview of Ni Mhurchu and Radio NZ interview of Blakely on this research.) In this blog we overview the uncertainty …
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  • Junk food and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Likely to produce numerous benefits in NZ

    … work that suggests that the implementation of taxes on unhealthy foods and beverages in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) … cities, states, and countries) have implemented taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB).[12-14] There are a number … etc.), import bans (eg, Tokelau [18]), and bans on unlimited refills (eg, France [19]). A number of …
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