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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: counterarguments to industry claims

    … an Action Plan for the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal and proposes substantially reducing the number of retailers … typically spend money on other things , such as groceries or treats. Tobacco companies also propagate this claim; for … as much as the average convenience shopper per year” [1] to UK retailers. Independent research evidence does not …
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  • Using Rapid Antigen Tests to improve COVID-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … In this blog we briefly describe RATs, their performance, and how they could be used to further improve Aotearoa NZ’s COVID-19 response . Figure 1: Rapid Antigen Test kit given out freely from the NHS in … (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction [PCR]) or other nucleic acid amplification methods. These RT-PCR …
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  • Strengthening Omicron mitigation strategies in Early Childhood Education settings

    … discuss what is needed to protect this group of children and their whānau as we navigate the next phases of the … among children infected with Covid-19 are uncommon (1 to 2% of infected young persons under the age of 20 years). … Wearing masks in ECE centres is not mandated for staff or preschool students due to concerns for young children’s …
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  • Vaping needs much tighter regulation as we approach Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Two new studies

    … The second uses these findings to estimate the net health and cost impacts for NZ of vaping devices having become … 2019 (95% uncertainty interval [UI]: 4510 to 5100 deaths) [1]. The total health loss in 2019, including non-fatal … diseases. This modelling estimated the net benefits (or harms) of allowing vaping in NZ compared to the …
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  • Strong public support for healthy food policies in Aotearoa

    … significantly to diseases like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, affecting a growing number of people who … Matepukupuku (Cancer Society Research Collaboration) . 1 Researchers at the University of Otago conducted a … For example, half the respondents said they were unsure or didn’t know of any food or drink that could potentially …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Simple transport system changes could quickly relieve the crisis in our hospitals

    … comprehensive pop-up networks for biking, scooting and wheelchair use and speed limit reductions.   This blog is … in place physical barriers to stop cars (but not bikes or people) driving through local streets increases walking … probably use . These effects are seen almost immediately (1-year evaluation) and endure or increase over time (3-year …
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  • Pandemic terminology: getting it right matters for effective risk communication and management

    … further improvements in NZ’s response are possible and in this blog we detail how pandemic terminology could be … 2 there is an event size limit of 100 and at Alert Level 1 it is allowable to fill a sports stadium with 40,000 … but outside of a controlled border facility for isolation or quarantine. If such community transmission occurs, then NZ …
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  • Reducing the health burden from contaminated drinking water in NZ: Opportunities arising from the new Water Services Bill

    … water regulator, Taumata Arowai, to oversee, administer and enforce new drinking water regulations. We also detail … people get sick from drinking water in NZ each year. 1 In addition, the country has experienced localised disease … that does not comply with current drinking water standards or has unknown water quality. 4 Key provisions of the new …
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  • Comparing health interventions in a meaningful way – Introducing the BODE3 Interactive League Table

    … This blog introduces league tables, and more specifically the NZ-specific BODE 3  Interactive … to give further consideration to investing in, or disinvesting in. If life and policy was more rational, New … environment” (eg, via taxing sugary drinks). Figure 1: Decision making in the health sector requires ‘weighing …
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  • Severe weather events linked to outbreaks of crypto in Aotearoa – New study

    … recent study into the link between severe weather events and clusters of the gastrointestinal disease … evidence that weather events with heavy rainfall or flooding may play a role in the development of some … outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease in NZ. 1   In NZ, Cryptosporidium  infections (cryptosporidiosis) in …
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