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  • When can COVID-19 be Declared Eliminated from NZ? New Modelling Study

    … needs the Ministry of Health to provide an official definition of elimination and to upgrade the data on its … 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 … simulations starting with 10 infectious cases for each value of Re). The curves from left to right relate to Re = …
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  • Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory

    … electricity retailers mandatory to protect health. A new report shows up to 55% of residential consumers are not … and the Electricity Authority has just released its first report of an annual assessment for 2021-2022 on compliance. … Guidelines are not working to protect consumers The report highlights that only 18 of 39 retailers self-report …
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  • Climate change and cherry blossom

    … of Chapter 11 (Human Health) in the 5 th IPCC Assessment Report. A commentary on the full chapter is available at the … just after 9am on Friday 4 Apirl, discussing this report and his reflections . Last Saturday in Japan the … meeting would not come to closure, and the Working Group 2 report was not approved until midday Sunday. What was on the …
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  • Health co-benefits need to be adequately considered in the Climate Change Commission’s final advice

    … the Government has been tabled in Parliament. This final report further acknowledged the potential health co-benefits … its economic analyses fail to incorporate the economic value of these health co-benefits which could well result in … 2). In absolute terms, the budgets could decrease GDP by a maximum of $45 billion over the next 30 years (given there is …
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  • National capacity needed to monitor misinformation to protect public health and social cohesion

    … presented information that can cause harm’ . 11 This definition focuses on two key aspects of concern: 1) that the … ways to strengthen resilience to disinformation. Their report, released earlier this year , emphasised the need for research specific to the NZ context. The report states: Additional empirical work and …
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  • When the first barrier fails: Strengthening protection for drinking water sources

    … 3 - 5 New Zealand’s current drinking water standards set a Maximum Acceptable Value (MAV) for nitrate based on the World Health … Waihao water supply on the path to the breach. A 2015 report, prepared for ECan, on land use and farming practice …
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  • Living longer, living healthier? Latest Official Report on independent life expectancy in NZ

    … longer in good health. The bad news? According to this report, the percentage of our lives with some dependency due … However, we have concerns about the accuracy of this Report, and critique it in this blog.   The last two … just published Independent Life Expectancy in New Zealand report . The Ministry used Post-Censal Disability Surveys to …
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  • Should NZ spend relatively more health resources on improving men’s health?

    … has been produced by the Ministry of Health in a Major Report on health loss published last year. From the tabulated … male life expectancy (relative to females)? The Ministry Report detailed the higher injury burden among male youth … two for Denmark ( first study , second study ). Reduce the maximum allowable salt levels in processed foods (something …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … carcinogen”. Instead the EPA commissioned its own report which found that glyphosate is “unlikely to be … assessment on glyphosate, and instead commissioned its own report. This was written by Dr Wayne Temple, a toxicologist … Industries apparently had a strong hand in shaping the report; 4) the EPA received unspecified inputs to the review …
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  • Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream

    … nitrate levels above the drinking water standards (the Maximum Allowable Value or MAV, 11.3mg/L as nitrate-nitrogen). 1,2   Publicly … drinking water quality. 5 The region’s latest groundwater report shows 59% of monitored groundwater sites have nitrate …
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