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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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  • 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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