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  • Would reducing the number of tobacco retail outlets achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal?

    … the 2025 goal of a smokefree nation? The best approach to this tobacco endgame, as it is often called, is unclear. … and limits successful smoking cessation (e.g., for youth smoking , adult smoking , for reduced smoking cessation … from such interventions which would probably further reduce smoking prevalence. But clearly to get to an endgame …
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  • Daily aspirin for preventing cancer and heart disease – where to from here in NZ?

    … A recently published review has quantified the estimated … The results indicate a relatively favourable benefit-to-harm ratio (good for preventing various cancers and heart attacks – but also harmful in terms of causing gastric bleeding and one …
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  • Media release: New Zealand urged to boost pandemic preparedness as bird flu spreads in US cattle

    … Public health experts are issuing a call to action for New Zealand to strengthen its pandemic … “Based on what we know, the virus currently poses a low but increasing risk to human health,” he says. “The infection …
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  • Charting our way back to normal

    … A new web tool, COVID-19 Pandemic Trade-offs, allows people to weigh the costs and benefits of different policy responses … to lockdown, earlier out, rely more on contact tracing – but still trying to eliminate) Tight suppression – … until vaccine coverage is high enough to effectively reduce transmission. For example, across 216 scenarios we …
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  • Covid-19: A planetary disease

    … and other planetary crises. I argue that major changes to our relationship with our planet and its creatures are … by new international law. What caused Covid? Covid-19 is a planetary disease and we humans are its cause: ‘The animals … managing public health emergencies over the last 15 years. But the IHRs do not have an explicit role in preventing or …
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  • COVID-19 hospitalisation peaks in Australian States since Omicron emerged: potential relevance to Aotearoa NZ

    … January at 424 people. Applying the Australian experience to NZ on a per capita basis would suggest peaks of 1,107 … size of its Omicron wave. What can NZ still do to reduce the burden on the healthcare system? We are left … and rates. The case fatality risk is relatively low, but the high case numbers result in considerable deaths and …
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  • Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones

    … this Briefing we apply 'downward counterfactual analysis' to Cyclone Gabrielle, considering how it could have been … or what went badly (and resulted in bad outcomes), but not very common to ask “what could have been worse?”. How … there is a need for central and local government to reduce the numbers of people living in flood-prone areas and …
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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … in Brisbane this week, teaching epidemiological methods to improve the quality and causal inference of our research – … to error – but of course they are also prone to missing important associations as well, such as the association of … (Saturated fat per se is not the mainstay of Schofield’s proposals, but rather a component – albeit a bigger component …
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  • Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory

    … Otago Wellington, we are urging the Electricity Authority to make the Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity … using a market structure to provide an essential service – but the critical point for considering whether electricity is … consumers. These powers and responsibilities mean that the important job of making sure that electricity retailers help …
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  • Divesting from fossil fuels – is this good for public health?

    … Association? They have all decided in the last few months to sell off their interests in fossil fuel companies. In this … the steepest increase ever. But there have also been very important advances in alternative energy sources. Facing the … backwards in the UK in the 1800s, before advancing two steps when the problems of urban air pollution were overcome …
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