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  • Improving NZ Government communication about COVID-19: Five suggestions

    … by the Prime Minister and the Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield), extensive social media … with the operation of public health services in the NZ community. As such, when a “border failure” occurs it should … air flights to NZ potentially causing problems with access to “medical supplies”. 18 This is a potentially …
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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 … for the Omicron period in NZ (from mid-January 2022 when community transmission was detected along with the decrease …
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  • Queenstown outbreak highlights future challenges for clean drinking water

    … Safe, good quality drinking water is crucial to public health. The Queenstown cryptosporidiosis outbreak highlights … 42 hospitalisations, three people developing long-term health conditions, and four deaths. 2 Since then there has … if an outbreak is detected, notably the National Public Health Service of Te Whatu Ora. Other health agencies also …
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  • A 100 years ago today a death ship from NZ arrived in Samoa: A reminder of NZ’s responsibilities to its South Pacific neighbours

    … people on board and the Talune was given a clean “bill of health”. The results of the subsequent pandemic spread were … of the approach of influenza, yet the colonial medical staff discounted the risk and faced strong economic pressure … Pacific (potentially with more liaison with the Pacific Community and the World Health Organization). The recent …
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  • Bioethicists, scientists and politicians; decision-making in a pandemic

    … from the Prime Minister and the Director General of Health and mapped the extent to which the approach they took … these decisions. These decisions are currently made by ICU staff, the Ministry of Health staff and PHARMAC. Each of … inclusive and be able to place the needs of the whole community above our more narrow individual needs. Political …
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  • The need for an updated strategic approach to Covid-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … programme of interventions that could minimise the adverse health impact of Covid-19. A further specific advantage of … internal borders with areas with current or potential community transmission. South Island “Regional elimination” … gathering restrictions. Tasmania has heavily restricted access from travellers who want to enter if travelling from …
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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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  • 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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  • Study of NZ fruit & vegetable prices suggests markets best value-for-money

    … Food prices matter for determining access to healthy food – and so we studied fruit and … of fruits and vegetables – according to the most recent NZ Health Survey (see Figures below). Differential intake of … W hat might local and central government do to facilitate access to these markets? One way to overcome the cost barrier …
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  • Public Health at the Movies: A Selection of 35 Top Movies

    … a collection of 35 high quality movies as part of public health teaching for medical students. In this blog post we … opportunistic. Nevertheless, all the movies cover public health issues and also achieve a minimum level of … movies have been made freely available to students and staff from our medical school library (University of Otago, …
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