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Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’
… fatalities are just one aspect of the wider harm to health and wellbeing from Gabrielle – which includes impacts on … be broadly defined as those events leading to death of 10 or more people. ‘Sudden’ in this context means substantially … from 1900 onwards was systematically assessed in 2017. 1 The resulting list was updated in 2019 in the wake of the …
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Putin and the Bomb: Why New Zealand national risk assessments should include planning for the potential impacts of nuclear winter
… review the literature on the probability of nuclear war and what various models estimate to be the potential global … rises to 3.3–16.5% and that of nuclear war to 0.3–8.3% (or higher if Putin’s Ukraine posture is considered an actual … US-Russia nuclear war at 2% (90% CI, 0.02–7%) or 1% (0.001–5%) if it is assumed launch could not occur during …
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Will liberalising nicotine availability increase quitting?
… In this blog, we discuss the proposed regulatory changes and explain some of the complex practices smokers must adopt … smokers make a full transition from smoking to vaping (1). It also recognises that nicotine e-liquid is widely used, … sales. Limiting the sales of tobacco products to R18 (or R21) outlets could dramatically reduce tobacco …
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Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning
… by 30-50%, claiming it does not improve attendance or school achievement. In part two of a three-part series, … between hunger in schools in Aotearoa New Zealand and achievement, linking this back to the need for food … out of food at home in schools eligible for the programme. 1 We have held focus groups with whānau and high school …
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Public Health Solutions Series: Protecting the healthcare system: a strategic approach to reducing infectious disease impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand
… we outline three immediate approaches to protect people and systems from infectious disease impacts : building on … viewed by decision-makers and the public as inevitable (or even tolerable) until the Covid-19 pandemic completely … right away to reduce demand on the health system: 1. Build on synergies in the control of multiple infectious …
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High regret among people who smoke reinforces strong support for smokefree legislation
… has no mandate to repeal the smokefree legislation and outlined youth and young adults’ very strong support for … by evidence that tobacco companies have targeted children, 1 and undermined studies documenting their products’ harms. 2 … support for policies among people who have smoked or recently quit smoking. Findings released in late 2023 …
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Bioethicists, scientists and politicians; decision-making in a pandemic
… the pandemic well. The role of political leadership and scientific input has been well covered. Part of this … makers. In their blog post in February Cunningham et al 1 drew our attention to the 2007 document “ Getting through … that acknowledges the mana of others as having equal or greater importance than one’s own, through expression of …
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Aotearoa New Zealand's fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care
… in self-reported Covid-19 infections, hospitalisations, and virus detections in wastewater. This wave is potentially … 12,000 Covid-19 hospitalisations this year and around 1,000 deaths. This new wave of infection is an opportunity … week within 28 days of diagnosis, over the past 12 weeks) or 700 deaths (based on Covid-19 attributed deaths). Covid-19 …
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Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey
… was particularly marked among younger age groups, Māori and Pacific peoples, and people living in the most deprived … older people who smoke to switch to vaping. E-cigarettes or vaping may help to reduce smoking prevalence as a … findings Population trends in vaping prevalence Figure 1 shows recent trends in vaping prevalence in the adult …
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How to Systematically Reduce the Border Failure Risk for COVID-19 in Aotearoa/NZ
… With the 2020 election over and with a newly elected government, it is an excellent time … cross-border incursions of the pandemic virus (five since 1 August, including a large outbreak in Auckland) highlights … The issue of pre-flight quarantine and testing (PCR test or potentially a rapid antigen test) is one option to reduce …
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