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  • Urgent action needed to prevent a measles epidemic in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … steps are needed to catch up those who have missed out on vaccination, alongside continuing work to increase routine … use of the Aoteoroa Immunisation Register (AIR) to track under-vaccination and support vaccine delivery; school-based … Practice and Primary Care, University of Auckland, and Medical Director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre Dr …
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  • Improving ventilation in schools: a key protection against Covid-19 outbreaks and an enduring legacy for healthier learning

    … learning and concentration.   Photo by  zehua chen  on  Unsplash The Covid-19 pandemic continues to evolve, with an increasing focus on the impact it is having on child health and wellbeing. … as cautious optimism develops about the outbreak coming under control and as children in regions outside Auckland …
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  • The long shadow of war on the health of military personnel

    … us published in a recent December edition of the British Medical Journal is detailed here (1). It found that the impact of the First World War (WWI) on participating NZ soldiers was that they typically lost … study considered randomly selected soldiers who embarked on troopships in 1914 (the year the war started), along with …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … to infectious diseases such as COVID-19 require us to draw on our common humanity and be explicit about our values. … responses. In response to Wilson and Baker’s timely piece on preparing for a potentially severe novel coronavirus … is a proper reminder that epidemics require us to draw on our common humanity as well as on our public health …
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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … ten years.  Simple.  Tax the killers – raise taxes further on tobacco and alcohol and introduce new ones on sugar, salt and saturated fat. Then make it super easy for … envelope.  So successful that from 2015 it will take on medical devices (e.g. hip prostheses and heart valves) as …
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  • In May 2022 the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 expires: what then?

    … Public Health Response Act 2020 (‘Covid Act’) expires on 13 May 2022. A further time-limited legal framework will … and proportionality. Secondly, the current Act was passed under parliamentary urgency, with practically no room for … providing interesting and constructive ideas [4]. The Report focused among other issues on the Act’s relationship …
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  • Comparing two pandemics: A century apart

    … of these pandemics, the responses, and their impacts on Aotearoa New Zealand and globally. It also emphasises the … to inform current and future pandemic management, focusing on public health infrastructure, international cooperation, … also highlighted the importance of ongoing investment in medical research, including studying virus evolution and …
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  • Proposed vaping regulations for NZ: Strengths and limitations

    … and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill on Sunday 23 February.  The Bill contains some important … by young people. Its proposed extension of prohibitions on advertising and sponsorship from tobacco products to all … smoked tobacco products, may not be sold to people aged under 18 years. Several of these extensions will address key …
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  • Weekly deaths declined in NZ’s lockdown – but we still don’t know exactly why

    … with the three previous years. Preliminary data on weekly deaths were from Statistics NZ [1]. The data … deaths in 2020 vs 2019 was proportionately highest in the under 30-year age-group (83.1% of the 2019 level, 72 fewer … a reduction in total deaths in six states that each had under 100 COVID-19 cases (ie, Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, …
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  • “Why not just ban it?” Is it time to consider ending tobacco sales?

    … This blog considers some arguments for and against a ban on the production (other than tobacco grown for personal … to zero smoking prevalence by 2025. The blog comes down on the side of intensifying other tobacco control approaches … country laid out in the Māori Affairs Select Committee report in 2010 (9) has taken root. An immediate ban on the …
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