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  • Media release: NZ lags behind on indoor ventilation standards: World Ventil8 Day

    … in our bedrooms. And newer homes may be even more at risk, as buildings are becoming increasingly airtight.” “We know … a lower threshold of 800 ppm. In other countries, such as Belgium, legislation requires CO 2 levels to be displayed on monitors in public spaces, such as bars, cafes or gyms. “Remembering to regularly open …
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  • The long shadow of Cyclone Gabrielle: Brief review at 12 months

    … long-term health effects. The estimated cost was up to $14.5 billion – and there were multiple other harms (see … disaster to have struck Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), and as we detailed in a “downward counterfactual” analysis, it … disruption to lives and stress from housing damage: As of 11 January 2024, MBIE data provided to us shows 469 …
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  • Is Keytruda for advanced melanoma cost-effective? Applying the BODE3 rapid cost effectiveness calculator

    … likely cost-effectiveness in the NZ setting a bit tricky, as our comparator would be yet another drug: dacarbazine. … However, for now let’s focus on just cost-effectiveness. As a very rough rule of thumb, a society might use its GDP per capita as a threshold for funding – if it costs more than $45,000 …
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  • Climate change and cherry blossom

    … Convening Lead Author of Chapter 11 (Human Health) in the 5 th IPCC Assessment Report. A commentary on the full chapter … were turned on again at 9.30 pm, but for a while it looked as though this was not the favourable omen that the IPCC … of governance models (and no common views on issues such as devolution, community development and the role of …
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  • Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research

    … done given the high importance of dietary sodium (salt) as a global disease risk factor – it is the eleventh most … (which has already been happening to some NZ food such as soups). In our study, published in the journal PLoS One [ … 3500 mg of sodium per day (around 9 grams of salt – or 1.5 teaspoons of salt) currently for the typical NZ adult – …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … safety more generally. This is now particularly important as the EPA is about to undertake an expanded review of … than 40 years – the glyphosate assessment was published as Monograph 112 in the series. The purpose is to establish … unspecified inputs to the review from Monsanto; and 5) the EPA ignored the Ministry of Health which notified the …
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  • The Covid inquiry report is an excellent guide to preparing for the next pandemic – health cuts put that at risk

    … mortality rates globally . 2 The report also found that as the pandemic progressed into late 2021, the negative … and loss of social cohesion. Vaccine hesitancy emerged as a growing challenge to the vaccine rollout, fed by … This is an area where Australia’s Covid inquiry report 5 had a stronger focus. Challenges of implementation The …
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  • NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?

    … to home, 3. Value and high performance, 4. One team, 5. Smart system), the gravitational pull of a focus on health … have a big impact on population health – in our view, and as we also commented on earlier this week . More on that in a … through ‘collective action’. So what is missing? Well, as per our previous blog there are plenty of key causes of …
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  • The science is certain: masks work. Policy and practice must support their use

    … Collaboration to issue an apology and clarification . As authors of one critical analysis noted, “The studies [of … causing high levels of sickness, including Long Covid . 4 5 NZ also experiences large numbers of hospitalisations and … This approach is especially useful for infections such as Covid-19 where people may not have symptoms or know they …
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  • Media release: Poor ventilation on buses and trains – a fixable risk to health

    … increased risk of passing on respiratory infections such as Covid-19, according to new research. The latest Briefing … The research measured carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) levels in air as a marker for poor ventilation. When more than half of the … was also a clear pattern of increasingly poor ventilation as seats got filled up and especially if passengers were also …
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