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  • How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    … and the National Ethics Advisory Committee has released a final report [3] on Resource Allocation and Covid-19 that includes a section on vaccine prioritisation. The NZ Government has also developed a Covid-19 Vaccine Strategy [4] but without any detailed …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Mental health services can’t solve a mental health crisis: public mental health priorities in Aotearoa

    … rāhui/lockdowns exacerbated mental distress for those with a history of mental illness .   Despite increased investment … as reducing demand for child health services as noted in a previous blog in this series.    Increasing physical … of addiction which require treatment, such as overdose and infection. We know the benefits of a health-based approach to …
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  • Ready or not? Pandemic preparedness index and implications for NZ

    … in the future. The ri sks include pandemic influenza or a new infectious disease, as well as deliberate biological … The world may have learned some lessons from Covid-19, but a recent international scenario exercise indicated there is still work to do. In the fictional scenario, a state-sponsored agricultural attack led to a human pandemic …
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  • Happiness surveys, & can health sector interventions improve well-being?

    … (Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University) is a world renown economist, and it is published by the United … Development Solutions Network. There has also been a growing (re)focus on happiness as the goal of living and … were the second most important cause of health loss after coronary heart disease. Actually for New Zealand women …
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  • New Zealand’s hard-won improvements to our Building Code must be retained: Here’s why

    … the building code standards that were brought in last year after extensive consultation and with almost universal … has been geared around the new standards, but the cost of a rollback would not just affect industry, it will impact … The current “H1” building code standards were introduced after extensive and exhaustive consultation. The consultation …
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  • Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis

    … Dr Stefanie Vandevijvere, Professor Boyd Swinburn A panel of 71 independent and government experts have … in tackling the child obesity crisis.   According to a 2017 OCED Report New Zealand is still the third fattest … in New Zealand in April-May 2017. The Food-EPI as a rigorous tool and process to measure implementation gaps …
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  • High levels of CO2 found in small study of early childhood centres: Improving ventilation in the time of COVID-19

    … alongside many other developing countries, has seen a dramatic increase of children in early childhood education … education 3 . There have also been high levels of Covid-19 infection and hospitalisation rates in this age group 4 . … High levels are linked to poor concentration, impaired cognitive performance, and higher rates of absenteeism 8 ,9 . …
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  • New Zealand doing okay in cancer survival: Results from the largest ever cross-national comparison of cancer survival

    … combined analysis (CONCORD-2). Never before has such a comparable set of survival estimates been available. And … first thing that stands out is that survival in the UK is often lowest – an embarrassing statistic from the UK’s … Interestingly, this gap in survival was usually achieved after just one-year post-diagnosis, pointing to the …
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  • The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality

    … Kiwis. Today Alafeishat and colleagues have published a paper in the NZ Medical Journal showing that New Zealand … Alafeishat and colleagues essentially repeated a study led by David Skegg (published in 2002), comparing … between Australia and New Zealand, especially for survival after one year (which points to differences in early …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’

    … Gabrielle – which includes impacts on mental health and a major economic burden to the country. Given the scale of … likely to be the highest flood event death toll since 1900 after the Kopuawhara flash flood in 1938 (21 deaths). It … those with 20+ deaths. 3 These investigations have often lead to changes in policies, safety regulations and …
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