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  • Improving ventilation in schools: a key protection against Covid-19 outbreaks and an enduring legacy for healthier learning

    … and improved resourcing are required. Ventilation is a valuable protection that works well in combination with … settled, as evidenced in a recent major review . The virus can remain suspended in the air for long periods before being … role here and has the advantage that many changes can be implemented immediately, although flexibility will be …
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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … Summary Youth populations worldwide are experiencing a mental health crisis. The 2024 World Happiness report … lives in 8,9 , and the effect of child poverty. 10 What can we learn from this research in Aotearoa? Mental health as … of mental health conditions among children and adolescents can be reduced by addressing severe and persistent poverty, …
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  • COVID-19, Christmas, the New Year and Summer Holidays: What the NZ Government and individuals can do to minimise the risks

    … have lost their life to COVID-19. NZ is now in day 121 of a sustained Delta variant outbreak (figure 1). While daily … across the globe. However, there are actions that NZ can take to protect the country from the threat of the … of international borders until a full risk assessment can be conducted on the Omicron variant . NZ Government plans …
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  • Can CT screening for lung cancer in New Zealand be cost-effective?

    … mortality. So why aren’t countries rushing to introduce a screening programme? Because there is still doubt about its … and overall mortality (by ~7%) compared to screening via chest x-ray (1). This US study (the National Lung Screening … only, not including (say) adjunct smoking cessation. As can be seen in the table, there is clearly a great deal of …
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  • Tobacco industry ‘transformation’ – more smoke and mirrors?

    … the Tobacco Control 30 th anniversary issue and consider a response from tobacco industry spokespeople. 2 Finally, we … to transform in 2016 and now claim to be building a ‘smoke-free future’ , ‘unsmoking’ the world , and helping … buy cigarettes in the first place” and that “our actions can contribute to reducing demand for cigarettes”. Further, …
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  • World moving forward on the smokefree generation - Aotearoa NZ goes backwards

    … Tobacco) Amendment Act (SERPA) that would have introduced a smokefree generation (SFG). Unlike Aotearoa New Zealand, … [sic] - how does it ultimately get enforced? A 36-year-old can smoke, but a 35-year-old can’t smoke down the road? That doesn’t sort of make a lot of …
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  • Tobacco product innovation in a smokefree world. Oxymoron or commercial cynicism?

    … and Philip Gendall Major tobacco companies have presented a vision of a smokefree world, where smoking prevalence has fallen to … recruit new users, 10 yet analyses of industry documents show that flavours play a key role in recruiting new smokers …
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  • Evidence supports a proposed Parliamentary Bill to reduce harm from alcohol sponsorship of sport

    … Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick recently announced a Member’s Bill to end alcohol sponsorship of sport, acting … and propose a replacement model so that sporting bodies can realise their stated purpose to “contribute to the … sponsorship, the levy would need to increase by 2c on a can of beer, 2c on an RTD, 5c on a bottle of wine and 6c to a …
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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … Summary Long COVID is emerging as a global public health concern. Health care workers have a relatively high level of exposure to COVID-19 and an … used for Te Whatu Ora staff with Long COVID in Taranaki. A survey of key stakeholders found that all respondents …
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  • A Statue of Merit: Dr Margaret Cruickshank and the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … United States. But in this blog we briefly look at a particular New Zealand statue that we think characterises … to involve some memorials to US doctors whose activities can be regarded as unethical . Some New Zealand memorials … (see Appendix). Perhaps therefore these type of objects can contribute to the social capital of a place by providing …
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