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The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project
… Summary This blog summarises findings from people who smoke or have recently quit smoking and who … setting out a bold and comprehensive action plan for how the Smokefree 2025 goal could be achieved. Key measures … and paternalistic. 3 According to this reasoning, many adults who smoke enjoy smoking and make an informed …
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Covid-19 is finishing the year on a high: We need a vigorous coordinated response
… in previous years. There will also be thousands of people disabled from long Covid during 2023. Drivers of these … and a communication plan to maintain awareness about how to stay safe. Heading into Christmas, people can protect … Influenza has exacted a high health impact in NZ for many years but Covid-19 has significantly greater acute and …
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Why eliminating Covid-19 is critical: Since more waves of infection, hospitalisations and deaths are inevitable for other countries until a vaccine arrives
… beat Covid-19: (i) eliminate the virus and keep infected people out (the approach NZ is taking); (ii) allow a sufficient proportion of the population to get infected and become immune to … it typically takes around 2-4 weeks for infected people to die from the time they were infected. This calculation works …
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Five actions to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, with a focus on Auckland
… Enhancing surveillance and screening to detect infectious people and areas; (3) Expanding vaccine access and mandates … people living in emergency and transitional housing (many of whom have substance use dependencies and mental … urgent meeting to review Covid-19 containment measures and how they can be further enhanced in Auckland. This meeting …
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Not forgetting the benefits to youth and non-smokers – an example from increases in tobacco taxes
… who quit. Policy-makers need to take a broad view of how tobacco control policies impact on society so that … for future health. Reducing uptake of smoking among young people is also a key component of reducing prevalence and … society (with further research being required to improve many of these estimates)* Population group Estimated % of NZ …
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Treaty Principles Bill threatens public health and equity: It needs your submission
… Summary The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill proposes redefining the principles of Te … of Treaty principles would mark a significant shift in how Treaty rights are determined. The Bill threatens to erase …
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Reducing the spread of antibiotic resistance in New Zealand, action is long overdue!
… Summary Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) has had high rates of community antibiotic dispensing for many years, much of it for patients with self-limiting viral … increased risk of spread from the treated person to other people. People who have received antibiotics have a markedly …
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Making the most of masks
… both source control and protection for the wearer and people around them from inhaling viral particles. Universal … to May 2020, finding that improved masking averted as many as 200,000 cases of COVID-19 during that time [8], while … own experience during this current outbreak highlighted how there was a high rate of transmission of COVID-19 amongst …
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When can COVID-19 be Declared Eliminated from NZ? New Modelling Study
… it we estimated that it would take between 27 and 33 days of no new detected cases of COVID-19 for there to be a 95% … case of COVID-19 (starting with 10 infectious cases for each value of Re in the range of: 0.5 to 1.0; using 10,000 … on Flutracking data for NZ] and assuming 95% of these people are tested for SARS-CoV-2 (and accounting for PCR test …
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The need for a robust scientific definition for the elimination of COVID-19 from New Zealand
… this blog we present the case for a scientific definition of elimination to help guide our national COVID-19 response. … To provide a high level of assurance to the NZ public – Many New Zealanders are understandably concerned about the … This assurance will be particularly important for people at high risk of severe illness (older people and those …
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