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  • National capacity needed to monitor misinformation to protect public health and social cohesion

    … communities and individuals to make harmful decisions. For instance, during the Covid-19 pandemic, some people … facts or caveats, and 2) that there is the potential for harm. This definition also captures disinformation—false information deliberately spread for financial, ideological or geopolitical gain.  Both in NZ …
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  • Taxing sugary drinks: Empirical findings out of Mexico

    … and beverage expenditure. The authors weighted the results for household composition, locality and socioeconomic … (e.g., a pre-tax trend of decreasing consumption levels for reasons other than tax), it is vital that an analysis of … “fixed effects model” that has the advantage of accounting for non-time varying unobserved characteristics of households …
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  • The hardening hypothesis for smoking – but does the evidence point to “softening” in NZ?

    … these issues and explores the potential implications for achieving NZ’s Smokefree 2025 goal.   The ‘hardening … rates did not change significantly over the study period. For 2014 vs 2008 the odds ratio for recent (within last 1-12 months) quitting was 1.14 (95% …
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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … describes an innovative multidisciplinary approach used for Te Whatu Ora staff with Long COVID in Taranaki. A survey … considered that the service was making a difference for people with Long COVID.  Its multi-disciplinary team … where people continue to suffer signs and symptoms for more than 12 weeks after their acute infection 1 . Some …
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  • Social advantage associated with greenhouse emissions from transport in Aotearoa

    … emissions from household travel (i.e. personal travel for work, leisure and other reasons). It was a consistent … weekly, level of vehicle ownership, air travel, reasons for travel (e.g. paid work, unpaid work and leisure) – people … residing in the most affluent areas were responsible for about 79% more GHGe per week from household travel than …
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  • It’s been 3 years since COVID entered New Zealand – here are 3 ways to improve our response

    … of an optimal mix of interventions. We need to prepare for future pandemics and there are multiple lessons from the … source and interrupting their spread offers huge benefits for global health security. February 28 marks three years … The first big challenge is identifying an optimal strategy for managing Covid-19 infection now that it is always …
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  • NZ compares well with other OECD countries in health & other areas: But scope for improvements

    … in brackets indicates NZ’s rank out of 36 OECD countries (for each indicator, think of 1 being the best or most … gap (2/36): In NZ this gap is four years (83 vs 79 years for women and men respectively), while the OECD average is … adults: In NZ the adult smoking prevalence is 18% vs 21% for the OECD average. Lower violent assault (8/36) and …
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  • Progress on reducing retail availability of sugary drinks in NZ

    … , Mexico and Pacific , Open letter to Cabinet Ministers for sugary drinks tax ). A comprehensive approach to … from the Ministries of Education and Health in March 2016 for the removal of SSBs for sale from schools. For NZ hospitals the process around …
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  • The Island Bay cycleway – Terribly important and nothing new

    … a sensible move to make the city safer and more attractive for carbon-sparing, health-promoting bicycling, according to … a mundane, boring story, you might think. Dedicated lanes for cyclists are being installed along The Parade in Island Bay, Wellington. These run for about 1.6 km on each side of the road and are, mostly, …
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  • An upgraded Alert Level 2 is urgently needed to address the Delta Variant threat

    … is the time to upgrade Alert Level 2 to ensure it is fit for purpose. Key improvements are mask use in all indoor … required a rapid move to an Alert Level 4 lockdown for the entire nation in an attempt to eliminate the … outbreak and strengthen the Alert Levels to account for increased transmissibility of the Delta variant. Here we …
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