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We need rapid progress on digital solutions to help eliminate COVID-19 from New Zealand
… by the Government of Singapore uses Bluetooth data from mobile phones to automatically inform its health agency … supervised quarantining of all incoming passengers from 9 April (12), so while this is maintained there may be … that 50% of all new COVID-19 infections being transmitted from someone who is either pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic …
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Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making
… do, to improve public health. We will traverse the range from birth to end of life care and death, efficiency versus equity, learning from our history to future gazing, opportunity costs, climate … within a given funding envelope. So successful that from 2015 it will take on medical devices (e.g. hip …
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Charting our way back to normal
… explanatory video. Article reproduced with permission from Pursuit The burning COVID-19 question this year is – … community transmission, giving us some space to learn from other countries as they aggressively roll out emergency … vaccines at reducing transmission. An example of a graph from the COIVD-19 Pandemic Trade-offs tool. This example …
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Despite improved WHO regulations, the world remains ill-prepared for the next pandemic
… and honour the memory of the millions who have died from Covid-19. The international community’s recent failure … included an emphasis on preventing zoonotic spillovers from animals, enhanced sharing of scientific data and … which are already years past their start date. From the threats of war to environmental devastation and …
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The need for a robust scientific definition for the elimination of COVID-19 from New Zealand
… true for enterprises that involve public venues (eg, food and hospitality) and interacting with the public (eg, … it has not yet adopted such a goal. Nevertheless, a report from Australia’s leading research universities (“The Group of … other events, that might generate cases, would necessarily remove elimination status. An example would be asymptomatic …
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From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for COVID-19
… should be dispatched to wrap fish ‘n’ chips or deleted from your digital files. While I do not have a crystal ball, … and those with a chronic condition (for whom the mortality from COVID-19 is much higher). All of these measures I … to deliberate on what we do next. That means pulling back from the (necessary till now) unchecked executive authority …
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BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it
… numbers shown on the picture: The DOMAIN button. Select from domains of cancer, injury prevention, salt and tobacco … be added in the future). The INTERVENTION button. Select from listed interventions (select all, or scroll down and … and ICERs. These uncertainty intervals are generated from the models run (usually) 2000 times, each time drawing …
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Improving the health of our children: Project Energize bang for the health $
… Elaine Rush, in which she overviews the recent Budget from a child health perspective, and then lays out the case … visits and prescriptions free for children aged under 13 from 1 July 2015. There was also $40 million for a new … in physical activity during class and parental surveys of food consumed by children. There is even a pilot programme in …
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How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?
… and “it is challenging to decipher causal pathways from data we observe only once, i.e. history as it unfolded”. … 2006-11 cohorts. But for females, it steadily increased from 30% (95% confidence interval: 18% to 43%) in 1981–84 to … between Māori and European/Other, due to many reasons from the legacy of colonisation to current day discrimination …
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Monkeypox has arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand: what is the level of risk and how do we manage it?
… seen in up to a third of cases 5,14,15 . Clinical data from 34 cases in the 2003 United States monkeypox outbreak … an infected person, and breathing in respiratory droplets from an infected person 5,6,10,12,13,17,18 . While monkeypox … have recovered. Support, such as financial, medical, and food supplies, should be provided to those isolating due to …
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