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  • Media release: Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable

    … global efforts to improve road safety according to public health experts. The increase in speed limits in New Zealand’s … and others in  the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . The Government  has based the … Otago says  this approach fails to consider wider public health impacts, such as discouraging people from walking and …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … sought as ‘replacement smokers,’ about the devastating health effects of smoking and environmental tobacco smoke .” … has seen millions of people die prematurely. The World Health Organization recognised the sustained threat the tobacco industry poses to health, and developed the Framework Convention on Tobacco …
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  • Covid-19 Case-Fatality Risk & Infection-Fatality Risk – important measures to help guide the pandemic response

    … previously , NZ has managed through a range of public health   measures  to maintain a relatively low Covid-19 … (further supported in a May 2022 Report by the World Health Organization [WHO]). In this blog, we briefly look at … the highest CFR at 0.1% and Asian the lowest at 0.024%. Care must be taken when interpreting these statistics, for …
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  • Media release: Youth vaping -The implications of addiction

    … negative impacts on their wellbeing, warn public health and addiction experts. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, University of Otago ASPIRE … The debate around vaping has generally focused on harm to health but nicotine addiction has wider implications for …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey

    … vaping according to the latest data from the New Zealand Health Survey released this month. The increase in recent … created concern among parents, communities, schools, and health workers. This Briefing summarises key findings on vaping prevalence from the 2022/23 New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS). A previous Briefing provided similar …
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  • The long shadow of Cyclone Gabrielle: Brief review at 12 months

    … than 10,500 , and caused a range of acute and long-term health effects. The estimated cost was up to $14.5 billion – … for many people is likely to be having ongoing mental health impacts. A survey of Napier residents conducted in May … in 2022). Various other reports suggest persisting mental health impacts as a result of effects on employment 6 and for …
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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 … NZ. Making iGAS notifiable would support immediate public health actions to control disease spread and provide a robust … can be managed, investigated, and reported to national health authorities in a timely manner. Australia made iGAS …
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  • Improving ventilation in schools: a key protection against Covid-19 outbreaks and an enduring legacy for healthier learning

    … an increasing focus on the impact it is having on child health and wellbeing. Countries across the world are … to reduce transmission in schools is recommended by major health agencies such as the ECDC and CDC. 10 11 Ventilation … cold, damp, indoor environments were a major public health concern long before this pandemic. Much of the public …
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  • Why NZ should consider adopting “mass masking” as an additional step to speed elimination of the Covid-19 pandemic

    … to reduce the spread of respiratory infections [1]. In health care settings masks are used widely for infection control – … promote mask usage. However, research into other public health safety measures (HIV prevention, seatbelt use and …
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  • NZ’s COVID-19 response compared to selected other jurisdictions: Australia, Taiwan and the United States

    … the US. In this blog we update the numbers around the key health outcomes for these jurisdictions and comment on the … in the US from COVID-19 and conditions associated with health systems disruption from the pandemic is also likely to … suggest that Taiwan had developed extensive public health infrastructure pre-COVID-19. A key element was having …
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