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  • Long COVID: Century-old Lessons We Still Have Not Learned

    … and police, and in some towns, people were not permitted on public transport or allowed to enter a theatre or cinema … data from: i) the ten contributing studies; ii) two large medical record databases in the US; and iii) findings from 44 … suggested that people with long COVID were less likely to report long COVID symptoms shortly after vaccination and over …
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  • Limiting the size of single serve sugary drinks: New NZ study on health and cost impacts

    … There is a lot of focus on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) internationally, due to … be cost-effective in NZ [5]. In this Blog we elaborate on the issues and consider this intervention in the context … analysis or interpretation of data, in the writing of the report, or in the decision to submit the article for …
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  • Covid-19 Hospitalisations Now Peaking in Aotearoa NZ – But Key Covid-19 Control Measures Still Need to be Maintained

    … daily case numbers. This is because case numbers massively under-represent true infections in the community since some … in hospital with a Covid-19 diagnosis peaked for Auckland on 15 March 2022, but for the rest of NZ this peak is still … the peak hospitalisation burden for all NZ (971 cases on 16 March) is lower than has been seen with Omicron in …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … that denicotinising smoked tobacco products could have on smoking prevalence in Aotearoa New Zealand. A policy … modelling study that we recently published as a pre-print on the medRxiv site . 1 Methods Using an Excel spreadsheet … the commonly used indicator of achieving Smokefree 2025 of under 5% smoking prevalence will be achieved for the overall …
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  • Why we need an Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

    … globally. The Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on health and the economy in Aotearoa NZ (NZ) and globally. 1 … of Otago. Assoc Prof Sir Collin Tukuitonga , Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland; Director … health initiatives with Māori, Pacific Peoples, and other under-served groups. Effective partnerships with …
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  • Rodents running riot in supermarkets – do we need to worry?

    … food, damage to insulation, damage to water piping, impact on mental health etc). It also discusses the impact of … Retired Public Health Medicine Specialist and former Medical Officer of Health Dr Chris Niebuhr , Researcher - … of Veterinary Public Health, Massey University Images credit: Grant Morriss, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 2)

    … by Dr Caroline Shaw and Associate Professor Diana Sarfati on breast cancer screening. In Part 1 t hey looked at the … from neuroblastoma (5). Breast screening in women under 50 The advice from bodies who have reviewed the evidence on breast cancer screening for women under 50 is fairly consistent. Screening for this age group …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … the BODE 3 Interactive League Table , and focused on how it is important to know what you are comparing – the … and how does it work?  First, what we have put up has data on 67 interventions evaluated by us (often variants around a … There are static versions (e.g. the ACE-Prevention Report ) and non-graphed versions (e.g. Tufts Cost …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … A new report reveals the troubling state of New Zealand’s food … improvement of NZ diets. But have these made an impact on the food environment? Our second assessment from 2018 to 2021 2 shows these had minimal impact on the food environment, though a few government initiatives …
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  • Sustained Resilience: the impact of nuclear war on New Zealand and how to mitigate catastrophe

    … our society is a complex adaptive system heavily dependent on trade. Major perturbations triggered by nuclear war could … losing weight. NZ produces something in the order of 9,500 kcal/capita/day (Schramski, Woodson, Steck, Munn, & … a detailed local study of food production and distribution under nuclear winter and zero trade/scarce fuel conditions, …
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