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  • How to Systematically Reduce the Border Failure Risk for COVID-19 in Aotearoa/NZ

    … The issue of pre-flight quarantine and testing (PCR test or potentially a rapid antigen test) is one option to … and testing required for people coming into NZ. This practice may expose NZ port workers to added risk, as could … maritime worker outbreak (see Appendix). This current practice may also allow these arrivals to infect the crew …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … Previously published NZ-based modelling work has explored business-as-usual trends in smoking prevalence, and the … and intensification of existing ‘mainstream’ best practice tobacco control e.g., enhanced mass media, … table for the full list). Option One details this extended business-as-usual approach. In Option Two we add one or more …
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  • Optimising the effects of plain packaging for tobacco – making Quitline information more salient

    … Latent Class Model, and found respondents regarded all the test formats as more effective than the status quo. Of the … (see published paper for statistical details). In a final test, respondents viewed either the status quo or a two panel test image and clicked on each part of the pack they thought …
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  • Lessons learned from a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa

    … trial called SALTS (Salt ALTernatives Study), to test two promising sodium-reduction strategies:  the first … the first place. We also know how important face-to-face communications (kanohi ki te kanohi) are for Māori. Excluding … up participants and collecting outcome data 1. Use test plans and ‘live’ mock participants Despite rigorous …
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  • Will the Government’s new Smokefree Plan achieve Aotearoa’s smokefree goal?

    … control programme was aligned with international best practice 6 and many had come to accept this was the best we … called for a shift in focus from individually focused and business-as-usual population interventions to address the … goal, subsequent governments continued with a largely business-as-usual tobacco control programme for the next …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … the vast majority of other services provided in General Practice and Specialist Private Practice in that it is fully-funded by Government. There are … with the Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, University of Otago Wellington. Email: …
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  • Testing for COVID-19 in NZ to achieve the elimination goal

    … slow to scale up testing (partly due to access to test kits), this is now underway and, along with changes in … cases may remain undiagnosed through incomplete test sensitivity eg, estimated at 70% for a RT-PCR test, as per one study [7]. Identifying COVID-19 cases will …
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  • Long COVID: Century-old Lessons We Still Have Not Learned

    … fade from memory, it “probably marked the beginning of the practice of mask-wearing to protect others from one’s own … COVID-19 (September 2020 – April 2021) and a corresponding test-negative group of 91,878. Web-based-questionnaire data … or 12 months after diagnosis. Six to 12 months after the test date, the risks of 18 of 21 physical symptoms were …
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  • Running into Trouble: COVID-19 in Japan during the Tokyo Olympics

    … are required to submit proof of a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours prior to departure, are subject to a … observing 14 days of quarantine, with allowances for daily practice, after arriving on 17 charter flights in Melbourne. … their rooms for all 14 days without any opportunities to practice. 47 48 Additionally, warm-up matches were cancelled …
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  • Covid recovery or sustainable transformation?

    … What are the major current risks? Pressure to restore business-as-usual : As new infection rates fall under New … pressure is intensifying for action to support recovery in business activity and jobs . But what sort of recovery? Recovery to business as usual would represent a failure of imagination at …
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