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  • Urgent action needed to prevent a measles epidemic in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … gaps are rapidly closed”. 1  Local assessments agree. 2 3 This Briefing summarises the reasons why NZ is vulnerable … programme is not achieving sufficient coverage. 3 Coverage peaked in 2013-17, but has fallen since then and … the most deprived communities, (NZDep 9-10) (Figures 2 and 3). Figure 2.  Immunisation coverage at 2 years of age, by …
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  • What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective

    … onto Phase 2’s post-vaccination plans, through Phase 3 and onto Phase 4 when life becomes relatively normal. It’s … pre-COVID-19 world with no restrictions of 5.0 and 6.0. 3) The policy settings we use for outbreaks and growing … more than 10 to 20 per million cases escalates to a Stage 3 (soft lockdown) or Stage 4 (hard lockdown) (similar to  …
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  • Preventing outbreaks of COVID-19 in NZ associated with air travel from Australia: New Modelling study of alternatives to quarantine

    … use of exit and entry screening, two PCR tests (on days 3 and 12 in NZ), mask use and contact tracing, reduced the … requirements for passengers and cabin crew to wear masks [3]. What did our new study find? We used a stochastic version … camera), masks on aircraft and two PCR tests (on days 3 and 12 in NZ), combined with self-reporting of symptoms and …
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  • Health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 response: NZ compared to OECD countries

    … for GDP in 2020 overall being -6.1% for NZ and -6.3% for the OECD. Nevertheless, a fuller accounting of health, … data for COVID-19 were from the Worldometers website 3 for probable and confirmed deaths. Data on quarterly GDP … for GDP annual reduction was -6.1% for NZ and -6.3% for the OECD 6 (though a more recent -3% prediction comes …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey

    … Vaping prevalence trends among young people Figures 2 and 3 show trends in vaping prevalence among 15-17 and 18-24 year … olds almost doubled between 2021/22 and 2022/23 from 8.3% (95%CI: 3.8-15.5%) to 15.4% (95%CI: 10.3-21.9%), representing an …
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  • Protecting fresh waterways in Aotearoa/NZ: The strong Public Health case

    … cancer risk and other problems from nitrates in water; (3) avoiding algal blooms that are hazardous to health; (4) … their genes can also act as environmental contaminants [3-5]. These pollutants can enter waterways directly through … in an estimated 5500 cases, 45 hospitalisations, and 3 deaths by the time it was over [14]. Total economic costs …
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  • Time to stop dodging bullets? NZ’s eight recent border control failures

    … One failure resulted in a large outbreak (179 cases, 3 deaths), but the others were successfully contained at … a transmission lineage of more than one additional case” 3 ). This high failure rate is unacceptable from a border … to remain in their rooms until they had a negative 3-day test result and provision of nicotine replacement …
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  • Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact

    … years 2017 to 2020 inclusive. Using our peer-reviewed BODE 3 forecasting model, we project that with these additional … 8.9% for non-Māori – compared to a projected 22.7% and 9.3% if this taxation programme had not continued beyond … health and generating savings on health care spending (1-3). Within the last decade in NZ, tobacco taxes were first …
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  • Would a sugary fizzy drink tax reduce health inequalities? Probably Yes

    … groups: –      Lets assume 6% for the “poor”, and 3% for the “rich”. 2. Response to change in price (price … = 4.56% –      Post tax consumption of SSBs [rich]       = 3% + (3% × -0.9 × 20%) = 2.46% So what happens to health …
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  • To ensure success of the trans-Tasman travel “green zone”, we need to reduce system failures at the NZ border

    … leadership, government officials, science advisors, iwi [3], health workers, border workers and indeed the whole “Team … these failures resulted in Auckland moving to Alert Level 3 on three occasions and the rest of the country to Alert … failures have been large. For example, at Alert Level 3, Auckland Council’s Chief Economist estimated the loss of …
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Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)