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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … rapidly vaccinating all remaining border and frontline health workers, ensuring that all New Zealanders are able to … the vaccine rollout (especially for border and frontline health workers), Ensuring that New Zealanders are able to … be matched to the risk in the community: The ‘ travel and health settings ’ where masks are required in public …
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  • Dementia: Update on causes and prevention, including the role of COVID-19

    … there are no resounding treatment successes to date. Management involves support for patients and their carers … between those on the ketogenic diet and those on the American Heart Association Diet [ 13] . An observational … of patients within a California state-wide administrative health database of emergency department and inpatient visits …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … years, defendants lied, misrepresented, and deceived the American public, including smokers and the  young people they … sought as ‘replacement smokers,’ about the devastating health effects of smoking and environmental tobacco smoke .” … making. Nor is PMI alone in making these claims; British American Tobacco (BAT) has embarked on a “ transformation …
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  • An Official Inquiry into the Covid-19 Pandemic Response – It’s Time and it’s Vital

    … contribute to improved preparedness for other major public health threats such as climate disruption and natural … Some official inquiries in NZ have helped advance health in the past In recent work by two of us, 11 we found … systems for hazard scanning, risk assessment, and risk management decision-making. Government systems for capturing …
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  • Rising congenital syphilis in Aotearoa New Zealand needs a strong response

    … syphilis in the last 5 years, notably in African American populations in United States and Indigenous … 9 Lead maternity carers need to be aware of the NZ Sexual Health Society recommendation to re-screen in third … advanced trainee, Te Toka Tumai e Whatu Ora Appendix  Information on categories presented in Figure 4 No/ late …
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  • Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … housing deprivation often experience further debilitating health consequences, with impacts on their education and … these factors are known to increase peoples’ wellbeing and health. As the OECD constantly reminds us, short-term … requires a consistent multi-partisan approach.  The public health response We have high-quality public health and …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 2)

    … Professor Diana Sarfati What do we do with the conflicting information on breast cancer screening? Assoc Prof Diana Sarfati and Dr Caroline Shaw Sorting through the information about breast cancer screening is difficult. There … screening to women in this age range . Communicating information to women Coming back to women who are thinking …
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  • Bioethicists, scientists and politicians; decision-making in a pandemic

    … 2017 4 and thus the public servants advising government on management would have been aware of it. At the time that a … from the Prime Minister and the Director General of Health and mapped the extent to which the approach they took … decisions based on the ethical framework and scientific information, while building and maintaining the trust of the …
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  • A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’

    … for some smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’. In this blog, we discuss what a new network of … we want to pave a clear way towards creating appetite for health through the solutions outlined in this new book by … including New Zealand, the implementation of strong public health policies is lagging, mainly due to powerful industry …
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  • The case for denicotinising tobacco in Aotearoa NZ remains strong: response to online critique

    … would likely profoundly reduce smoking prevalence and health inequities. The key criticism – that we relied mainly … policy to dramatically lower smoking prevalence and reduce health loss and inequalities when implemented in the … and recommendations for future research and data management practices. Given our paper was focused on Māori …
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