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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 … To learn as quickly as possible which treatments of people sick with COVID-19 saves lives. To work out our … Otago colleagues in Wellington.   … From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for …
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  • Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive

    … age and superannuation policy. But few are aware just how dramatic the changes in cause-specific mortality have … to low mortality that this country followed was unique in many ways. For example, did you know that New Zealand … from cardiovascular causes to cancer deaths. Ask most people on the street what is happening with cancer rates and …
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  • Adaptation important but don’t give up on mitigation—what the new IPCC report means for Aotearoa

    … emissions, global heating will roughly triple by the end of the century. Climate change already damages human health … adapting to, and mitigating the current and future impacts of climate change. The latest synthesis report from the IPCC, … unprecedented flooding events in January and February this year, the IPCC notes that: Individual livelihoods have been …
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  • Smoking denormalization and tobacco endgames

    … strategists will need to address. Social norms govern many aspects of our everyday lives by defining what practices we view as acceptable (or not) and how we feel others perceive us.[1] Norms lead us to modify … experience to smoking alone outside a home, which people do to comply with norms valuing smoke-free homes for …
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  • NZ falling behind on international rules to protect kids from food marketing

    … policies to protect children from the harmful impacts of food marketing. This Briefing outlines how NZ falls short, and how doing so jeopardises the nation’s … certain foods make their bodies feel. Food connects us to people, cultures and the environment, and can be a source of …
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  • Climate Change and Recent Actions of NZ Political Parties

    … The health organisation OraTaiao convened a group of experts to analyse the climate change policies of NZ … Party has an overall poor performance grading – given the many opportunities it has had in Government.   Voters who are … Party, despite the latter having over four times as many MPs in Parliament. Limitations of this review We …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Protecting the healthcare system: a strategic approach to reducing infectious disease impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … this blog we outline three immediate approaches to protect people and systems from infectious disease impacts : building … education, work, and social settings.   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective … T he SARS-CoV-2 virus may be a new pathogen, but in many ways the pandemic is simply a larger-scale version of …
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  • New Zealand can lead the world in tobacco control: Plain packaging 2.0

    … sooner rather than later . New Zealand will now join the many other countries implementing this proportionate and … has contributed. Studies from New Zealand have shown how on-pack tobacco-brand imagery appeals to young people and positions smoking as an accepted, even …
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  • Reducing waiting times for cataract surgery is good value-for-money for falls prevention

    … help to prevent falls. A key risk factor is the presence of cataracts, and cataract surgery has been shown in a … actually having the surgery performed, of over 300 days in many cases. To explore this issue we started with a model we … so the earlier the surgery is done, the less falls older people will have. Cataract surgery also improves vision, so …
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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 … of the elimination strategy in terms of anticipation. People in those countries benefit from a level of visibility … recommendations which are mainly from the perspective of how the Report’s findings could be used to improve the …
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