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  • The alarms are flashing red: Five reasons to upgrade our Alert Level system before the next Covid-positive traveller visits a major city

    … system. In our recent paper in the journal Lancet Regional Health : ‘Expansion of a national Covid-19 alert level system to improve population health and uphold the values of Indigenous peoples’ 1 we … 1. Summary of the proposed revised Alert Levels for future management of the Covid-19 pandemic and other infectious …
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  • Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them?

    … outcomes during pregnancy. NZ could get better public health value from these vaccines by: Continuing to ensure … New Zealand (NZ) and strategies to achieve optimal health benefits from this component of prevention. A future … Comirnaty XBB.1.5 (Pfizer-BioNTech) 20 December 2023. Management of Covid-19 vaccines was transferred to Pharmac …
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  • Media release: Making the consumer care guidelines for electricity retailers mandatory could save lives

    … Dr Kimberley O’Sullivan and He Kāinga Oranga Housing and Health Research Programme at the University of Otago … We need basic standards of care to be followed to protect health and avoid potential fatalities,” says Dr O’Sullivan. In the latest Briefing published by the Public Health Communication Centre , Dr O’Sullivan and colleagues …
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  • Fighting cold, damp housing – a big tick for Warmer Kiwi programme

    … Our Warmer Kiwis Study team worked to determine if the health and wellbeing of people in households improve when … pump installed. The study’s results relate to: people’s health and wellbeing in their homes the homes’ indoor … for low-income families. How heat pumps improve people’s health The housing stock in Aotearoa is well known for being …
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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … Credit is owed to political leadership, science advisors, health workers, iwi [3], and indeed the whole “Team of 5 … have repeatedly shown the importance of effective error management and learning from failures [8]). In light of this … quality improvements (obviously without any identifying information on returnees). Introducing a post-MIQ home …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques

    … goal envisages a society where people no longer suffer the health, social, economic and cultural harms caused by tobacco … is implemented alongside providing complementary information on e-cigarettes (eg, relative harms of … best’ to develop policies that ensure optimal population health outcomes while minimising potential unintended …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey

    … vaping according to the latest data from the New Zealand Health Survey released this month. The increase in recent … created concern among parents, communities, schools, and health workers. This Briefing summarises key findings on … Health Survey (NZHS). A previous Briefing provided similar information on smoking prevalence patterns and trends . About …
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  • COVID-19, Christmas, the New Year and Summer Holidays: What the NZ Government and individuals can do to minimise the risks

    … now the new Omicron variant. Combined with the impacts of health inequities, misinformation, and vaccine hesitancy, … on vaccination and testing, with very few other public health protections, allows many opportunities for the virus … we strongly recommend the following actions to aid the management of the ongoing Delta outbreak in NZ and other …
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  • Media release: Our fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care

    … is clearly experiencing a fourth wave of Covid-19 and health authorities should be reminding us about the benefits … help reduce transmission. Professor Baker and other public health experts from the University of Otago look at the … in the latest issue of the Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . These data indicate there could …
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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … have contributed to some of the favourable features of the health sector response to this 2009 pandemic ( reviewed here … compared to previous ones. Part of the NZ Ministry of Health’s current planning includes stockpiling of antivirals. … This review could address the following issues: What  information besides the new Cochrane systematic review needs …
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