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  • Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax

    … thoughtful, some distortionary), and in particular debate on the complexities of taxing food. In this blog I argue … there is much that could be potentially gained by taxes on saturated fat. In the paper we published in the Australian … Journal of Public Health , we reviewed the meta-analyses on replacing dietary saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats …
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  • The Island Bay cycleway – Terribly important and nothing new

    … in Island Bay, Wellington. These run for about 1.6 km on each side of the road and are, mostly, separated … Dominion Post . Strong opinions of all kinds are expressed on television , social media and in the blogosphere . A local … , “they [Southern Ward residents] had the cycleway forced on them. I talk about it being done with the delicacy of the …
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  • Mortality declines in Aotearoa NZ during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic

    … the impact of Aotearoa NZ’s Covid-19 response strategies on mortality patterns during the first 2 years of the … NZ’s case, lingering Delta cases , it is worth reflecting on what has been achieved so far in terms of the health of … study by Islam et al published in late 2021 in the British Medical Journal evaluated the effects of the Covid-19 …
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  • Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them?

    … most at-risk groups ( older people, those with important medical conditions, pregnant people) Extending eligibility … achieving optimal population protection depends on ensuring supplies of an effective vaccine and sustaining … risk of exposure. Routine Covid-19 vaccination of children under 5 years remains contentious: recommended in some …
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  • Reducing cardiovascular disease deaths from overweight & obesity: Fortunately there are several options

    … blog, we look at a recent combined analysis of 97 studies on how much of the overweight/obesity association with … policy can address the obesity epidemic. We also reflect on a seminal paper on BMI and mortality by the late Gary Whitlock. Being …
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  • Potential for an avian influenza pandemic: Time for NZ to ramp up preparedness

    … assessment of the current A(H5N1) panzootic and comments on needed risk-management measures. Risk assessment of … and Public Health Communication Centre Dr Oz Mansoor , Medical Officer of Health, Tairāwhiti (on sabbatical with … Dunedin and other wildlife hospitals will continue to report birds with suspected avian influenza symptoms via the …
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  • Why NZ should consider adopting “mass masking” as an additional step to speed elimination of the Covid-19 pandemic

    … influenza infection [2]. In this blog we focus more on the potential role of masks in contributing to reducing … Kong has maintained an effective reproduction number of under 1 for several weeks now . The above is only suggestive … of cloth masks The concerns over the supply of medical masks for the public is a valid one and we propose …
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  • The urgent need for a Covid-19 Action Plan for Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … Official figures show that during Term 1 there were just under 100,000 confirmed cases aged 0-9 years and over 147,000 … case numbers in schools and education records show that on 11 March 2022, over 250,000 children were absent from … NZ. This policy has placed an unnecessarily heavy burden on school staff, requiring them to take on a pandemic …
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  • Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

    … in the Budget to build an extra 3,000 new public homes on top of the 14,050 homes which have already been funded by … Ora has so far built 11,830 public homes with a further 4,500 under way. T here was a welcome reduction of 10 percent in …
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  • Are we ready to eliminate invasive meningococcal disease in Aotearoa New Zealand?

    … (IMD) is a serious infection that has devastating impacts on families. Most cases are children and young adults, and … strategy for the Covid-19 pandemic has shed new light on preventing a range of infections that spread by the … at the University of Otago) to identify any currently under-utilised outbreak control approaches; Genomic …
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