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  • Likely rise in invasive strep infections in NZ requires a strategy

    … invasive GAS (iGAS). Since late 2022 the World Health Organization (WHO) has described numerous high-income … in NZ. Making iGAS notifiable would support immediate public health actions to control disease spread and provide a … and Canada. Notification is important as there is a public health response to each case (education and potential …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … is expected to double in the next 20 years – a major health and economic issue. Since age is the biggest risk … poverty and social disadvantage. Targeted legislative and public health measures reducing availability and marketing of … population-level approaches.  Targeted legislative and public health policies can shift sociocultural norms and …
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  • Media release: Why the Smokefree legislation must stay - Laying out the evidence:

    … Public Health experts have laid out the facts showing the … continues to cost thousands of lives and millions of health care dollars. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, The Smokefree legislation …
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  • More evidence that elimination is the best COVID-19 control strategy for health and the economy

    … to be superior to mitigation/suppression strategies in health and economic terms. Nevertheless, more data and a … costs of different COVID-19 control strategies. The likely health and economic benefits of using an elimination strategy … allowed the virus to spread to such an extent that their health systems were saturated (-4.5% versus -11.7%).” Also, …
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  • When can COVID-19 be Declared Eliminated from NZ? New Modelling Study

    … 44 days. So now the country urgently needs the Ministry of Health to provide an official definition of elimination and to upgrade the data on its website so that the public, the media and researchers can monitor progress … and to upgrade the data on its website so that the public, the media and researchers can monitor progress …
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  • Improving NZ Government communication about COVID-19: Five suggestions

    … by the Prime Minister and the Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield), extensive social media … to the following problems: Delayed release to the public of important documents on the pandemic response – … and in MIQ facilities, and then with the operation of public health services in the NZ community. As such, when a …
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  • Public Health at the Movies: A Selection of 35 Top Movies

    … a collection of 35 high quality movies as part of public health teaching for medical students. In this blog post we … more opportunistic. Nevertheless, all the movies cover public health issues and also achieve a minimum level of …
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  • Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?

    … We have just published research on the health gains and cost-savings from various legally mandated … endgame goals. Many studies in the ‘neighbourhoods and health’ research stream have estimated the health effects of access to features of the built …
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  • Warmest New Zealand winter ever recorded – The Government should do more on climate change

    … catastrophic levels of damage to human civilisation – a public health threat on a scale larger than we usually consider. … to reduce greenhouse emissions will have benefits for public health. Some of these actions may even save society …
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  • Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis

    … countries as well as senior representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture … support Set population intake targets Assess public health impacts of food and non-food policies Provide … processes providing access to information for the public and monitoring prevalence of NCDs and their risk …
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