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  • More evidence that elimination is the best COVID-19 control strategy for health and the economy

    … be really certain about the relative benefits and costs of different COVID-19 control strategies. The likely health and economic benefits of using an elimination strategy (as NZ has done), relative … strategies have previously been reported on by some of us in a blog [1] and in the British Medical Journal [2]. …
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  • Urgent action needed to help eliminate cervical cancer in Aotearoa

    … Elimination is possible because almost all cases of cervical cancer are caused by the human papillomavirus … HPV vaccination, HPV primary screening and treatment of abnormal cervical cell changes. If all women and people … cancer will be eliminated in NZ within the lifetime of today’s children.  NGOs, researchers and the public are …
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  • Public health and Budget 2024

    … within limited funding and increase public understanding of the value of long-term health investments. Despite the tougher … for population, prices and incomes), every broad area of spending is forecast to shrink over the next three years, …
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  • Improving the health of our children: Project Energize bang for the health $

    … case and evidence f or Project Energize]. The highlight of the 2014 Budget for children was $90 million to make GP … We also need to have evaluations to show that this type of investment is working – accountability for the money that … District Health Board (DHB) and delivered by a team of Energizers with Sport Waikato. The programme covers …
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  • Young New Zealanders want a tobacco-free future - new research

    … Aotearoa’s world-leading smokefree law flies in the face of public opinion, with new research demonstrating strong … conducted in Aotearoa in August-September 2023. A storm of protest has erupted following the announcement that … world-leading smokefree laws are set to be axed as part of the coalition agreement between National, ACT and New …
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  • From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for COVID-19

    … Australia owes a debt of gratitude to its pandemic modellers, public health … and politicians – we have avoided the explosive beginning of a COVID-19 epidemic that most other countries are now … the ditch – we are advantaged by being at the bottom of the world with a slightly longer time to respond. Without …
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  • Eliminate the pandemic virus causing COVID-19 or risk an animal reservoir

    … an effective strategy for New Zealand in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic virus (SARS-CoV-2). Most other … within reach. There is one additional argument in favour of elimination: the longer the highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 … species and that these will become a reservoir capable of transmission back to humans. Elimination has been an …
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  • Optimising the effects of plain packaging for tobacco – making Quitline information more salient

    … Given plain packaging of tobacco products will likely increase the tension many … to try and quit, could increase the number and success of quit attempts. This blog post details a just published … packaging regulations improve the current presentation of Quitline information and provide smokers with support to …
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  • Lessons From history: Helping New Zealand prepare for future influenza pandemics

    … in the last 100 years that have reached New Zealand. Of these, the 1918 one was by far the most severe – in fact … history with over 8500 deaths (almost one percent of the population at the time). The most recent influenza … pandemics could even pose existential risks to the future of human civilisation (pandemics are included in this list of …
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  • What does the novel coronavirus epidemic mean for New Zealand?

    … threat to global health where collaboration and sharing of information benefits all nations. Here I briefly summarise … coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that emerged in Wuhan at the end of 2019 we are learning more about its pandemic potential … with every passing day. The most important measure of severity is the fatality risk. Currently this is about 4% …
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