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  • Long COVID: Century-old Lessons We Still Have Not Learned

    … outcomes. Such findings reinforce the continuing need for government action and individual commitment to the core … one’s own germs” 1 . In Japan, mask use was compulsory for some, such as the armed forces and police, and in some … close to the lowest cumulative mortality in the OECD for the COVID pandemic). During the 1918-19 pandemic, the …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … interventions. This week we provide a brief ‘user guide’ for our just launched BODE 3 Interactive League Table.  We … QALYs), health system costs and cost effectiveness for 50+ interventions currently in the interactive league … 1) are selected.  Note that some of the interventions, for now, are what we call ‘heterogeneity’ evaluations, e.g. …
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  • Progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Congratulations to the Government

    … congratulate the NZ Government on its proposed Action Plan for the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal. Here we examine the evidence for three key ideas outlined in the plan: permitting tobacco … the world in tobacco control. The Government’s “Proposals for a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Discussion …
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  • The UK Government shows leadership with a Soft Drink Tax announcement

    … look at the UK initiative and assess its possible utility for changing New Zealand’s obesogenic environment. NZ adults … are the highest contributor to total sugars intake for Kiwi kids and the second highest contributor for adults, and it is clear that Kiwis far exceed the World …
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  • What can we learn from Healthy Housing Initiatives? New evidence from the Wellington Well Homes scheme

    … We know that poor housing conditions result in ill health for many New Zealanders, and we know which interventions are … to improve the homes of kids who are hospitalised for illnesses that could be related to poor housing … to address it with the landlord especially if they are in rent arrears or they have asked for things before and they …
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  • What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective

    … and cost impacts . We have now updated this modelling for 240 different scenarios, 100 times each, to look at a … vaccine coverage (which ranges from 50 to 90 per cent) for people aged over 16, or for both children and adults. 2) The reproductive rate of the …
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  • Protecting fresh waterways in Aotearoa/NZ: The strong Public Health case

    … now do submissions on protecting waterways to the Ministry for the Environment, as part of a current consultation … which ends on 31 October.   Introduction   The NZ Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has recently published a discussion … to its geography (steep hill country) and building of houses on flood plains. As a result flooding impacts can be …
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  • Monitoring and forecasting the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand including the successful impact of the lockdown

    … We demonstrate the usefulness of the Wallinga model for the calculation of the effective reproduction number and … who infected who and details of individual outbreaks. For this reason, mathematical models can be used to quantify … There is an open source R software package that allows for estimating R 0 using the Wallinga method. The approach …
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  • The Omicron waves – Comparing Aotearoa NZ and Australia in four key graphs

    … We recommend that the NZ Government does more to prepare for a possible second Omicron wave (as in Australia) and for future variants of concern. Priority areas are increasing … variant of Covid-19. When considering potential scenarios for the future of the Covid-19 pandemic (in particular …
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  • Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones

    … how it could have been worse, to derive valuable insights for future disaster mitigation. The ‘worse case’ scenarios … of downward counterfactual analysis should be conducted for other disasters to better inform a wider range and depth … over 4 days) 275 (Cook Strait). Roofs were ripped off 98 houses. 970 Cyclone in February 1936 12 (unnamed)   1936   12 …
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