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  • Queenstown outbreak highlights future challenges for clean drinking water

    … Safe, good quality drinking water is crucial to public health. The Queenstown cryptosporidiosis outbreak highlights … 42 hospitalisations, three people developing long-term health conditions, and four deaths. 2 Since then there has … stop. Avoid visiting people in hospital or long-term care facilities for at least 48 hours after your symptoms …
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  • Strong public support for healthy food policies in Aotearoa

    … overseas.   Poor quality food is a major cause of ill-health and deaths from diseases such as cancer, heart … and education and, if implemented well, could reduce health inequities between Māori and non-Māori. New research … the importance of understanding how food influences health. Overall public awareness of how diet can influence …
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  • Media release: Covid-19 vaccines work, but we need to do more to get the most out of them

    … disease experts say we could get even better public health value from the vaccines. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre , Professor John Potter from … all ages. This change in policy would allow younger health care workers, teachers and other exposed groups to get the …
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  • The race to be the first place in Aotearoa to be smokefree

    … extent that it is not even discussed in the draft national Health Strategy (2). As a world-leading goal addressing New Zealand’s biggest preventable risk factor for ill health and premature death, you might think it would be worth … for ‘across-government’ smokefree action, going beyond the health sector. The Northland Intersectoral Forum (NIF) …
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  • Alcohol-related harms now available on demand

    … Summary Alcohol is one of the major causes of health loss in Aotearoa NZ. It is now available at people's … that the NZ Government could enact to address this risk to health and wellbeing.    On-demand services online have been … jurisdictions from where they provide services. 1 Health policy experts have made a range of proposals …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … ” ) WHO? The Emergency Committee The international health regulations (IHR) provide for the Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a Public Health … for countries to WANT to set up long-term systems and care about monitoring Incentives for countries to agree to do …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … We walk through how to pull down tables and graphs of health gain (quality-adjusted life-years; QALYs), health system costs and cost effectiveness for 50+ … cost-offsets due to reduced disease rates (costs the health system less) but also increased longevity (costs more …
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  • Key findings in the 2021/22 NZ Health Survey: Continued rapid falls in smoking prevalence and increases in vaping

    … New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data was released in late November. In … about smoking and e-cigarette (EC) use/vaping from the NZ Health Survey (NZHS). Previous analyses revealed a steady but … and regulatory frameworks smoking and ECs. New Zealand Health Survey methods The NZHS is a rolling nationally …
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  • How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    … and of reducing the risk of outbreaks that overload the health system). Prioritisation for vaccination is not the … the UK. Their priorities are as follows [5]: Residents in care homes Everyone 80 and over and front-line health workers People aged 75 and over People aged 70 and …
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  • Reducing the risk of Covid-19 transmission through the use of air purifiers

    … of indoor air needs to be used alongside public health measures, such as vaccination, staying home when … purifier in areas where people are likely to walk and take care of electrical cords, which should be taped down to … air purifiers have an ioniser as well as the filter. The health effects of ionizers are not yet clear. Given this, if …
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