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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a new Action Plan to achieve our smokefree goal

    … A new Action Plan was launched by one of New Zealand’s great tobacco control champions – Dame … Turia – at Parliament on August 2. This blog describes the Plan’s key features and the rationale for the proposed … to switch completely from the smoked tobacco products they are currently using to deliver their nicotine intake, to …
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  • Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023

    … Summary The results of a Health Coalition Aotearoa survey of … health infrastructure has found generally the parties are deeply split along ideological grounds. This is despite … on progress in prevention against health-harm products. What is new in this Briefing The strong political ideology …
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  • Changes in mobility in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: NZ vs other countries and the stories it suggests

    … New Zealand and a range of other countries in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data show the massive behavioural … 2020, drawn from its location services datasets, which are normally used to indicate things such as how busy a … trajectory of active case numbers in Sweden is far from what might be desired. Source: …
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  • Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame

    … We have eight more years to go until 2025 – the year of the NZ Government’s Smokefree goal. NZ is not on … the reduction in smoking prevalence. These measures are often defined as ‘tobacco endgame strategies’ (4). … NZ population alive in 2011, with the majority of these benefits being accrued in the three decades after …
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  • The arrival of Candida auris in Aotearoa NZ: risk assessment and actions needed

    … more widespread globally. In this Briefing we evaluate the risk of C. auris to New Zealanders and outline how best … medical equipment. Standard hospital-grade disinfectants are not effective at killing C. auris : instead, agents with … be screened for MRO colonisation or infection accordingly. What is new in this Briefing The first case of C. auris …
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  • Can CT screening for lung cancer in New Zealand be cost-effective?

    … about its cost-effectiveness. In this blog, we discuss the uncertainties and suggest a way forward for New Zealand. … lung cancer screening trial (NELSON), results of which are expected next year (3). Closer to home, the Australians … on inequalities in lung cancer, among others (5). So, what about the cost-effectiveness of LDCT screening? Since …
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  • Monkeypox has arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand: what is the level of risk and how do we manage it?

    … The global outbreak of monkeypox has for the first time … countries to eliminate it, including in NZ itself.   We are experiencing a global outbreak of monkeypox which has for … … Monkeypox has arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand: what is the level of risk and how do we manage it? …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … Dr Matt Boyd (syndicated from the blog site of “ Adapt Research ” ) WHO? The Emergency Committee The … a fire alarm Entities like the WHO Emergency Committee are fearful of unnecessarily alarming the world, so they …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … alcohol, there is growing interest internationally around the setting of minimum prices on alcohol. In this blog we … Scotland that have recently implemented a minimum price. What might this all mean for NZ? The discussion about whether … policy for New Zealand depends on the outcomes that are considered. The government’s analysis is focused only on …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … Covid-19 elimination strategy is now threatened by the global emergence of new variants with increasingly high transmissibility. We outline the upgrades that are now urgently needed to keep New Zealanders safe, …
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