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  • Aotearoa’s first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza: Heightened awareness and surveillance essential for early detection

    … (HPAI) virus subtype H7N6 in Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). We discuss its impacts and priorities for future … avian influenza (LPAI) viruses have been detected in NZ’s  wild birds following the introduction of avian influenza viral surveillance by the NZ  Ministry for Primary Industries in 2004. 1,2 While H7 …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … based at the University of Auckland, has been monitoring NZ’s food environments since 2014. Our first comprehensive … from 2014 to 2017 1 concluded that the food environment in NZ is largely unhealthy. Since then, there have been a few … commitments and actions aimed towards improvement of NZ diets. But have these made an impact on the food …
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  • Climate Change and Recent Actions of NZ Political Parties

    … group of experts to analyse the climate change policies of NZ political party policies. It gave the highest grade to the … in Government.   Voters who are asking “What is best for NZ society and the planet in the long-term?” may wish to put … group of experts to analyse the climate change policies of NZ political parties. It gave the highest grade to the Green …
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  • Protecting fresh waterways in Aotearoa/NZ: The strong Public Health case

    … process which ends on 31 October.   Introduction   The NZ Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has recently published … water quality has recently become an important issue in NZ with increased public concern and political attention. … has become increasingly intensive and over the same period NZ’s waterways have shown a range of indicators of degraded …
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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … measures, are highly consistent with those made in the NZ tobacco control sector’s Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa Plan … all peoples in Aotearoa.   When the Labour/New Zealand (NZ) First/Green Government formed in October 2017, there were … efforts to reduce their impact. It comprised a review of NZ and international literature; an analysis of secondary …
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  • Throwing open the windows: The need for ventilation improvements as part of Covid-19 outbreak control in Aotearoa

    … and filtration are needed for indoor settings in Aotearoa NZ. In this blog we address the particular need to improve … not been a focus of efforts to reduce transmission in the NZ setting. This is despite the identification of ventilation … to multiple quarantine system failures in Australia and NZ [15, 16]. For example, after three transmission events at …
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  • Health system costs in NZ: variation by sex, age & proximity to death

    … This blog aims to discuss a study we recently published on NZ health system cost estimates by sex, age and proximity to … is only possible due to extraordinary richness of routine NZ data. We highlight four findings. First, costs – not … to death. Here we summarise a paper published in the NZ Medical Journal on these findings. The costs included in …
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  • “100% Pure” – Public Health Goal Setting

    … of Otago, Wellington   The “100% Pure” marketing of NZ is marketing hype and an easy target for UK tabloid journalists (see this NZ Herald piece). Nevertheless, there is a case for striving … polio vaccination (the last polio case from wild virus in NZ was 51 years ago). It is one of the few countries to have …
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  • Engaging online simulator of measles outbreaks (& how NZ needs to do better in eliminating measles)

    … diseases. Then we take the opportunity to explain why NZ should be doing more to wipe out diseases like measles. … occurs in around 1 per 1000 cases of measles. So how is NZ doing in preventing diseases like measles? A few years ago some of us published a paper celebrating NZ’s elimination of poliomyelitis (on the 50 th anniversary …
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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … As part of influenza pandemic readiness, NZ has a 32 million dollar stockpile of antiviral drugs. But … recent evidence from a new Cochrane systematic review – NZ policymakers should probably now carefully review this … response to this 2009 pandemic ( reviewed here in the NZ Medical Journal ) – albeit a relatively mild pandemic …
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