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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … Analysis of countries with reasonable quality data implies that the … Auckland to other parts of NZ to help maintain elimination in those places (to give time for improved vaccination … repeated PCR tests. Arrivals are also required to submit a negative PCR test result carried out 72 hours or less prior …
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  • Money down the drain: The high cost of leaking water pipes

    … Summary Access to clean drinking water is one of the most fundamental components of good public health. Leaking water infrastructure poses a threat to this basic necessity and wastes precious funds. … to the deterioration of road and footpath infrastructure (eg, a major slip in NZ in 2023 4 ). Resource …
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  • Comparing two pandemics: A century apart

    … It highlights similarities and differences in the nature of these pandemics, the responses, and their impacts on … future public health emergencies.   We recently published a study 1 that explored the similarities and differences … in much higher health impacts than endemic infections (eg, seasonal influenza). However, differences in the viruses' …
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  • Is youth vaping a problem in New Zealand?

    … delivery systems (ENDS) deliver nicotine to smokers using a hand-to-mouth process that parallels smoking. Because ENDS … with vapes containing nicotine relative to when they were used with vapes containing no nicotine or nicotine patches … ago has not resulted in big declines in the proportion of people who smoke, or had more than a modest impact on quit …
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  • Breaking the inequity loop

    … ourselves.  That means more Māori across all aspects of health: not just doctors, nurses and other clinical … The all-of-population approach has failed for more than a century to address Māori health inequalities. Government … need for dialysis; 15 More likely to require treatment for mental health disorders, 16 including schizophrenia. 17 These …
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  • Five Strategic Approaches to Achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal

    … Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 has been described as “a world-leading, bold ‘endgame’ goal” [1]. The goal’s origins … Māori, led by Māori leaders including Shane Bradbrook of Te Reo Marama and Māori Party MP, Hone Harawira. The … roll-your-own tobacco, which is disproportionately used by Māori and young people [21, 22]. To maximise success, …
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  • High levels of CO2 found in small study of early childhood centres: Improving ventilation in the time of COVID-19

    … to be an important way to reduce the transmission of respiratory viruses in indoor spaces where people gather … alongside many other developing countries, has seen a dramatic increase of children in early childhood education … winter 2023 in the same way they were provided to all state and state-integrated schools in 2022 . They are …
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  • A Statue of Merit: Dr Margaret Cruickshank and the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … military statues which represent the racist history of the Southern United States. But in this blog we briefly look at a particular New Zealand statue that we think characterises … statue). We suspect that such information boards could be used more widely at other memorials – especially those …
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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 resources towards improving male … disorders are a key driver of the sex difference (eg, heart attacks). Among older adults, the most prominent …
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  • Why do so many fear the bicycle?

    … This is the reason given most commonly for not riding a bike on the road in New Zealand. In this blog, I summarise … a paper we have just published quantifying the risk of cycling injury. We found it to be low compared to other … with no equivalent for bikes). For some sub-groups (eg, young men) the risk of injury in a car is greater than …
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