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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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  • Increasing whooping cough cases put pēpi at risk. What can be done about it?

    … immunisation system  The single most important public health measure to protect pēpi is ensuring access to … coverage is multi-factorial and likely perpetuated by health system barriers including  differential access to … to NZ communities but similar to resources available in  Australia . 20   3. Enable Lead Maternity Carers to deliver …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle by the numbers – A review at six months

    … Official Information Act Requests, and data provided by private companies. Graphic showing some of the impacts of … injuries, such as concussion, can result in months of poor health. These reported injuries do not take  account of the … in areas prone to floods and without the income to pay for insurance. 6 Vulnerable groups include recent migrants, the …
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  • Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?

    …   Image from a World Health Organization poster In a modelling study we just … in funding other aspects of tobacco control and/or to fund health services. An extra plus is that the weight of evidence … suggests that tobacco tax increases contribute to reducing health inequalities (for 2 recent systematic reviews see here …
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  • Reducing the risk of Covid-19 transmission through the use of air purifiers

    … of indoor air needs to be used alongside public health measures, such as vaccination, staying home when … can be bought for around $300-$1000. Schools in Victoria, Australia have recently purchased 51,000 portable air … air purifiers have an ioniser as well as the filter. The health effects of ionizers are not yet clear. Given this, if …
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  • Time to stop dodging bullets? NZ’s eight recent border control failures

    … six MIQ facility failures, five involved workers (three health workers, a defence worker and a maintenance worker) … and one was a returnee infected in a facility. The three health workers and the defence worker were all infected in … outbreaks of COVID-19), as well as from an occupational health perspective (for protecting workers from a potentially …
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  • Daily aspirin for preventing cancer and heart disease – where to from here in NZ?

    … looks at the issues and considers possible responses by NZ health agencies and research funders.   What is the evidence? … – 0.17 deaths caused by aspirin by age 75   What might NZ health agencies do now? A possible first step is for a … ages for the NZ population (the ASPREE trial in the US and Australia should help inform this issue). How might other …
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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … have called for further research into their long-term health effects, including their potential to cause nicotine addiction and negatively affect oral health. 4 5 Tobacco companies produce and market several … ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre, and Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington  Dr Jude Ball , ASPIRE …
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  • Dementia: Update on causes and prevention, including the role of COVID-19

    … are living into old age than at any other period of human history. This is accompanied by an increasing burden – on … of patients within a California state-wide administrative health database of emergency department and inpatient visits … trauma [ 20] .   A cohort study within the US Veterans Health Administration health care system involved more than …
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  • Chewing the fat on a saturated fat tax

    … in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health , we reviewed the meta-analyses on replacing dietary … article strongly indicate this. But it may be that more health gain might be achieved if such taxes were also used to … fat tax could also fund a media education campaign on the health benefits of increasing nut consumption and the …
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