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  • Strengthening Omicron mitigation strategies in Early Childhood Education settings

    … preschool children from two years of age, the World Health Organization currently does not recommend masking … Reducing occupancy in ECEs during periods of high community transmission The current Covid-19 protection … to supervise their children at home to do so. ECEs can access funding using the EC12 exemption for permanently …
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  • Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream

    … 0.3 and 1.0   mg/L. 7 Importantly, the MAV is a human health limit, not a limit that should be applied to the … The impact of pollution at this level on environmental health is high and emerging evidence of human health risks at much lower levels suggests regulators must …
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  • Using a fun “Mask Day” at school to promote pandemic protection in the NZ community

    … increased public engagement of mask use within the wider community. Aotearoa New Zealand is currently experiencing a … lack of support by the NZ Government and the World Health Organization. Our successful elimination of SARS-CoV-2 … the pandemic and how masks work to protect others in the community. The teachers reported the children “remain …
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  • Patterns of declining smoking in NZ – But more action needed by the New Government

    … Just published results from the NZ Health Survey indicate ongoing declines in smoking for Māori … could be accelerated. Just published results from the NZ Health Survey indicate recent ongoing declines in smoking, … smoking cessation service provision – which includes health worker counselling and provision of pharmacotherapy; …
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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … negligible – putting in place coordinators frees up other staff to do other things as we show in a publication last … patient outcomes but also change ‘downstream costs’ in the health sector.  For example, chemotherapy may increase.  … including all downstream changes in cost and health gains?”  And for which cancers and which type of …
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  • Increasing whooping cough cases put pēpi at risk. What can be done about it?

    … pertussis in our communities. Firstly, ensure equitable access to pertussis immunisation in every pregnancy by: … immunisation system  The single most important public health measure to protect pēpi is ensuring access to pertussis immunisation in every pregnancy . …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … Tiriti o Waitangi the Government is obliged to protect the health and wellbeing of Māori. It is further obligated under … not only to the industry, but also to the people in our community most affected by tobacco harm, that while vaping is … be better guided to develop messaging with an empowered community that more effectively reached the target audiences …
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  • Shifting all isolation/quarantine facilities to a single air force base: The need for a critical analysis

    … involve outbreaks in NZ’s largest cities with large health and economic impacts. The main disadvantage would be … and NZ will regain its COVID-19 elimination status for community transmission in the coming months. This status … also helps keep these hotels economically viable and hotel staff employed. Advantages of using Ōhakea Air Base This air …
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  • Alcohol-related harms now available on demand

    … Summary Alcohol is one of the major causes of health loss in Aotearoa NZ. It is now available at people's … summarises the evidence for potential harm that this easy access may contribute to. It also describes some of the … impacts on the hauora of the individual, whānau, community and wider society. 3-5 In 2022/23, 76% of NZ adults …
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  • An upgraded Alert Level 2 is urgently needed to address the Delta Variant threat

    … the rest of the country at Alert Level 3) to eliminate community transmission. As NZ plans moves down the Alert … by  Anna Tarazevich  from  Pexels On 17 August 2021, a community case with Delta variant Covid-19 infection was … our contact tracing system, quarantine facilities, and health service capacity. This outbreak required a rapid move …
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