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  • Can pandemic threats justify border closure for island nations like NZ?

    … In a study we just published in a journal, we explored the costs and benefits of complete border closure in NZ in response to new … environmental and ecological factors (1). There are also added threats from deliberate human modification of …
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  • Daily nicotine use increases among youth in Aotearoa NZ: The 2021 Snapshot Y10 Survey

    … Recently, ASH New Zealand released findings from the 2021 Snapshot Year 10 survey , a large cross-sectional … once a month, as opposed to daily use). These details are very important because the 2019 data showed increases in … increases in daily smoking and so need careful monitoring. What do the data tell us about smoking and vaping? Some …
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  • The COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa/NZ: A brief photo-essay with 10 photos

    … In this photo-essay of the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa/NZ, each photo is … out when saliva-based tests become reliable enough and are adopted for use in NZ.   Figure 8: Mandated mask use …
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  • Removing the nicotine from tobacco: The key component of the current Smokefree Bill

    … Amendment Bill includes three key policy measures from the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: denicotinisation of … (sometimes called very low nicotine cigarettes, VLNCs) are defined as cigarettes having less than 0.4mg nicotine per … in NZ or by existing NZ-based tobacco or vaping companies. What are the priorities? There are at least four priority …
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  • NZ’s COVID-19 response compared to selected other jurisdictions: Australia, Taiwan and the United States

    … has involved comparing NZ’s COVID-19 response with a range of other jurisdictions, especially: Australia, Taiwan and the US. In this blog we update the data comparisons for these … in 2019 [3]. ** The reported case numbers for the US are likely to be major under-estimates. Eg, the true number …
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  • Public health and Budget 2024

    … and law and order, shrinking relative to GDP over the next three years.  Public health, which requires … (not an election promise). Future operating allowances are too small to cover existing service levels relative to … insufficient to have a meaningful impact on health.  So what does the budget mean for the Public Health sector? …
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  • Faster mortality decline – slower population ageing. How could this be?

    … 65 plus Have you sat in a meeting recently, or listened to the radio, where someone is invoking the aging population as … Have you then asked yourself “Hang on a minute, if people are living longer are they not also healthier?”. Or even “Why … according to a recent paper in PLoS ONE . At issue here is what defines “old age”. When Dick Seddon introduced the Old …
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  • Calling for action on suicide prevention in Aotearoa

    … Summary The Ministry of Health is inviting submissions on the second … that the solutions required to prevent suicide are broad and far-reaching.  A whole-of-society approach is … New Zealand.    This Briefing opens the conversation about what a whole-of-society approach might look like and what an …
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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … The Global Health Security Index which considers pandemic … pandemics typically spread widely and unless all nations are prepared then the risk of spread can remain high. The … society in the event of a catastrophic pandemic. What more does the NZ Government need to do?   The GHSI …
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  • Expanding Ka Ora, Ka Ako is ‘bread and butter’ action to alleviate the cost-of-healthy-food crisis

    … Summary A major part of the cost-of-living crisis, which is hitting whānau across … of children from food insecure households whose schools are not covered by the programme. Readers who support this … and more equitable means of income distribution. What is new in this Briefing The most concerning part of the …
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