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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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  • Mind the gap: Associate Health Minister’s actions conflict with Ministry advice, align with tobacco industry lobbying

    … Minister Shane Jones admitted taking “ soundings ” from a tobacco company staff member, dismissing his obligations … there was only “weak evidence” of snus’s effectiveness as a smoking cessation tool and noted that snus may increase the … and who have not found vaping appealing.”   “Look past the often-partisan rhetoric. The coalition’s promise to avoid …
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  • Preventing falls can be very cost-effective in NZ – New study

    … We have just published a modelling study on exercise programmes in NZ to prevent … options. What did our new study find? We found that a home-based exercise programme generated the greatest health … such as: Expedited cataract surgery – since visual impairment is a risk factor for falls (see this Australian …
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  • COVID-19, Christmas, the New Year and Summer Holidays: What the NZ Government and individuals can do to minimise the risks

    … have lost their life to COVID-19. NZ is now in day 121 of a sustained Delta variant outbreak (figure 1). While daily … effectively, and also alter virulence, potentially making infection more serious and lethal. The World Health … vaccine is still somewhat effective with two doses, but after three doses (two shots + a booster) the vaccine’s …
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  • Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic

    … ticket regulatory treatment. The promise is that if such a wide parliamentary consensus can be achieved on party … improve the regulation of other hazardous products with a much greater impact on public health. Consider this new law in more detail. A key principle is the requirement that approved psychoactive …
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