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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … As a strategy to reduce harm from alcohol, there is growing … with a measure of scepticism. But careful modelling often provides the best evidence we have to make decisions in … impressive ability to reduce health inequalities. This is often not acknowledged, due to one of two mindsets: policies …
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  • Tobacco product innovation in a smokefree world. Oxymoron or commercial cynicism?

    … and Philip Gendall Major tobacco companies have presented a vision of a smokefree world, where smoking prevalence has fallen to … declining, such as New Zealand. 6-9 Tobacco companies have often argued their marketing strategies aim to shift market …
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  • Queenstown outbreak highlights future challenges for clean drinking water

    … safe to drink. While authorities continue to investigate a range of potential source of this outbreak, they have … to residents of Queenstown and Frankton. The warning came after several people were diagnosed with cryptosporidiosis; a … about how to limit their exposure to potential sources of infection, as well as to reduce transmission from infected …
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  • The need for long-term thinking – Especially for preventing catastrophic risks

    … (AI) and climate change. Fortunately, there is a wide range of feasible options to build long-term thinking … . Appropriately responding to this threat also demands a long-term focus on building in safe locations and having … infrastructure is typically decades out-of-date and needs a major upgrade. 1 2 This deficit caused an outbreak of …
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  • Should NZ spend relatively more health resources on improving men’s health?

    … poorer male health. It then discusses if there is a plausible case for shifting more of the available health … key data has been produced by the Ministry of Health in a Major Report on health loss published last year. From the … loss of human capital argument. Premature male deaths are often at young ages so society is particularly losing men …
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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … reasonable quality data implies that the risk of Covid-19 infection for most vaccinated international arrivals is … repeated PCR tests. Arrivals are also required to submit a negative PCR test result carried out 72 hours or less prior … vaccinated case rate in many more. In Canada, for example, after adjusting for their lower testing rate, there could be …
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  • Protecting fresh waterways in Aotearoa/NZ: The strong Public Health case

    … waterways to the Ministry for the Environment, as part of a current consultation process which ends on 31 October.   … Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has recently published a discussion document, titled “Action for healthy waterways” … the world’s largest water-borne outbreak of campylobacter infection in Havelock North (see this blog: [13]). The …
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  • Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action

    … rate in the OECD [1, 2]. The massive economic rebound at a 14% rise in GDP for the third quarter [3], is also highly favourable. Indeed, a preliminary analysis of IMF data suggests that countries … have performed better economically than those using a suppression strategy [4]. A key success factor for NZ was …
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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?

    … Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’ll be aware that sugar and its negative … and their impact on body weight and metabolism – one a lab experiment on mice published in Nature that was widely … water supplemented with either glucose or sucrose (sugar). After 11 weeks, the mice fed sweeteners were displaying …
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  • Likely rise in invasive strep infections in NZ requires a strategy

    … Summary Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a common cause of sore throats and … Penicillin is the drug of choice for treating both mild and severe GAS disease, while other treatments are … spread of GAS and other respiratory viruses that often co-circulate with GAS. In addition, measures to reduce …
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