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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan: Why this could eliminate smoking disparities for Māori

    … The recent release of the Government’s “Proposals for a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan” (the  Plan) … the implications of the measures described in the plan for Māori.   We start this blog by reviewing the background … behaviours (e.g. encouraging youth to resist influences for taking up smoking or supporting smoking cessation). While …
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  • Covid recovery or sustainable transformation?

    … recovery from the Covid lockdown provides an opportunity for a sustainable transformation of our society and economy, … the pressures. The world has underestimated these risks for too long. They need to be confronted. One of the most … initial Covid pandemic controls, pressure is intensifying for action to support recovery in business activity and jobs …
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  • COVID-19 hospitalisation peaks in Australian States since Omicron emerged: potential relevance to Aotearoa NZ

    … of using the Australian experience to inform planning for the developing NZ Omicron wave. Australia is in the … the reported number of COVID-19 cases in hospital and ICU for all Australian States/Territories, and then projected an equivalent estimate for NZ on a per capita level (Table). The time period is from …
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  • Why NZ should consider adopting “mass masking” as an additional step to speed elimination of the Covid-19 pandemic

    … laboratory and epidemiological evidence of benefit for such mask use. Since the costs of mass masking are … In health care settings masks are used widely for infection control – though it is still not proven that … N95 respirator masks are superior to surgical masks eg, for preventing influenza infection [2]. In this blog we focus …
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  • Preparing for Omicron: A proactive Government response is urgently needed to minimise harms

    … how Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) could improve preparations for a likely national outbreak of the Omicron variant of … the commentary from our pre-Christmas blog about the need for maximum preparation for a likely national outbreak arising from importing the …
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  • Five lessons for Aotearoa NZ from the current COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales

    … outbreak and the grim situation holds a number of lessons for NZ. On 15 June 2021, a 60-year-old airport limo driver … aircrew to and from Sydney Airport tested positive for COVID-19 and was confirmed as a case on 16 June with … for people who have lost their jobs or cannot pay their rent or mortgage, put in place an eviction moratorium, and …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Where the sun enters, the doctor does not

    … secure homes with enough space to avoid crowding (a risk for infectious diseases such as rheumatic fever and COVID-19). Three ways improving houses can relieve pressure on the health system are home … and building to better standards. Most of our existing houses are old and built to relatively low standards and …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … The international health regulations (IHR) provide for the Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization … have lambasted the late timing of PHEIC declaration for COVID-19 and also the opaque nature of the acronym.   The … but at its second meeting, two months after searches  for ‘SARS’ had been spiking on WeChat  and one month after  …
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  • Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame

    … NZ is not on track to achieve this goal, especially not for Māori. In this blog we discuss the findings of our just … reducing the commercial sales of tobacco (see (4) for an overview of proposed tobacco endgame strategies to … guide decision-making and the establishment of a roadmap for reaching the Smokefree goal. We have quantified the …
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  • Not all upcycled food is created equal: What is sustainable?

    … Social benefits include job creation, increased incomes for growers, and improved job security. While not well … is one way of repurposing surplus food and by-products. For example, converting unsold bread into bread flour . 2 … the processing required to ensure the by-product is safe for human consumption. 5-7 For example, if a by-product needs …
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