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  • Are we ready to eliminate invasive meningococcal disease in Aotearoa New Zealand?

    … shows that we may finally have an opportunity to be permanently free of this disease. In this Briefing we … by the respiratory route. IMD elimination now looks to be a potentially achievable goal for NZ. Desirability of … rises to 98% of the notified cases where a serogroup could be identified. No vaccine has complete effectiveness, meaning …
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  • New modelling on the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in NZ associated with arriving travellers

    … quarantine). As noted previously, 2 risk assessment can be used to stratify the risk of SARS-CoV-2 virus importation … source country. This approach allows source countries to be classified using a traffic-lights system into green, amber … flights to result in an outbreak. However, the risk could be substantially reduced by a package of non-quarantine …
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  • We need rapid progress on digital solutions to help eliminate COVID-19 from New Zealand

    … privacy, public acceptability and coordination that must be overcome if these innovations are to make substantial … impact and where the efficacy of existing solutions can be substantially improved. For example, existing solutions … Interventions and their associated digital solutions can be divided into two main groups: (a) those where their …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’

    … the list getting longer. Sudden mass fatality events can be broadly defined as those events leading to death of 10 or … a bubble to display more detail. Gabrielle is likely to be the highest flood event death toll since 1900 after the … human health and wellbeing. In the short term these would be due to evacuations, power outages, and damage to water, …
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  • The cost burden of excess weight in New Zealand: Sizing up a new report

    … preventable healthcare costs for successive governments to be studiously ignoring. Cost of illness studies, like this … of a condition by estimating the healthcare costs that can be attributed to the condition (direct costs), the associated … with obesity. The costs identified in this report need to be read as costs to society for a societal problem. The …
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  • Smokefree Aotearoa – world-leading developments with profound public health implications

    … and the tobacco industry and its allies are likely to be determined opponents. Key priorities for the smokefree and … leaders also emphasised that the tobacco industry should be held to account as the main driver of the smoking … cigarettes remained highly addictive and continued to be sold in almost every dairy, supermarket and petrol station …
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  • Promoting physical activity through the prescription of smartphone apps in primary care: Likely to produce health gains and cost-savings

    … each week [3]. In NZ, over 40% of adults are estimated to be insufficiently physically active [4]. This contributes to … and services available, smartphone applications (apps) may be a particularly popular approach to increasing physical … (eg, accelerometers) [9]. Apps have also been shown to be effective at increasing physical activity levels [10, 11], …
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  • Tax policy as a key health determinant: Reform for the Covid-19 reset

    … decent and just society. Tax reform options should be included in pre-election party proposals. More … collected, but also the extent to which inequalities may be addressed – or conversely exacerbated. Tax is therefore a … for tax reform. 6 New ideas for taxation should not be limited to specific measures for health and environmental …
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  • Australia’s Quarantine Systems Failures: Lessons for NZ

    … from overseas. However, offsetting this trend will be measures such as the vaccination of quarantine workers. In … of the quarantine failures in Australia are thought to be due to inadequate ventilation in hotels used as quarantine … (a converted workers’ camp 11 ) and this approach should be seriously evaluated for NZ, otherwise NZ could negotiate …
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  • Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status

    … the island of Tasmania). Other jurisdictions appear to be getting recent outbreaks under control and might also be progressing towards elimination status eg, Hong Kong, … from the above jurisdictions indicates that this goal can be achieved using appropriately targeted control measures at …
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