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  • The case for denicotinising tobacco in Aotearoa NZ remains strong: response to online critique

    … This blog responds to a recent online critique of a study that modelled how key components of the Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan would affect smoking … would likely profoundly reduce smoking prevalence and health inequities. The key criticism – that we relied mainly …
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  • Not forgetting the benefits to youth and non-smokers – an example from increases in tobacco taxes

    … do more to protect youth and non-smokers from the burden of tobacco. In this blog we use the issue of tobacco tax increases to show the potentially large … it is smokers who suffer most immediately from the deadly health impacts of the tobacco industry’s products, and who …
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  • Beautiful benchtops: How should we protect our workers?

    … and construction workers. Applying Australian data, 250 of the 1000 New Zealand workers who’ve fabricated engineered …   Thanks to Di Cookson, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer, Royal Australasian College of Physicians Appendix 1 … diagnosis in highly exposed individuals and subsequent medical support and compensation cover. People who work with …
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  • Potential for an avian influenza pandemic: Time for NZ to ramp up preparedness

    … Wellington, and Public Health Communication Centre Prof John D. Potter , Research Centre for Hauora and Health, … and Public Health Communication Centre Dr Oz Mansoor , Medical Officer of Health, Tairāwhiti (on sabbatical with Public …
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  • What does art have to do with public health, and how can they work together?

    … time that the Public Health Summer School (University of Otago, Wellington) has considered art, and its … considered the value of movies as a useful way to teach medical students about public health themes, provoking … for. Kalisolaite ‘Uhila, Mo’ui tukuhausia, Photo: John McIver. For more, see here. What does this mean for …
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  • Urgent action needed to prevent a measles epidemic in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … measles epidemic. Child immunisation coverage at two years of age has been falling and is now 83% overall, and 69% for … Practice and Primary Care, University of Auckland, and Medical Director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre Dr … University of Otago Wellington Dr Oz Mansoor , Medical Officer of Health, Tairāwhiti Prof Nick Wilson , Department …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … the emerging scientific evidence on the longer-term burden of symptoms and disease in survivors of the COVID-19 … for a NZ study). It may be relevant that a study of 78 medical personnel over 15 years showed that SARS-CoV-1 (the … and perhaps chest pain and dyspnoea.   * Prof John D. Potter, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Taxes to protect health and reduce inequity

    … Summary This Briefing reports on our survey of the political parties’ tax policies. It finds that … consideration of other polluter pays taxes to protect health and the environment. The Election 2023 Public Health … Otago, Wellington, and Science Communication Lead, PHCC Dr John Kerr , Department of Public Health, University of Otago, …
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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% … 44 days. So now the country urgently needs the Ministry of Health to provide an official definition of elimination and … with lower levels of symptomatic cases of COVID-19 seeking medical attention and lower levels of testing. For example, …
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  • Protecting New Zealand children from the developing Omicron outbreak

    … community transmission caused by the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In this blog we outline what is needed to protect the health and wellbeing of children (ie, those under 18 years) … health and policy expert. JS is an epidemiologist and medical statistician at UOW. CD is leading research on …
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