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  • Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action

    … [6]. Very effective communication also came from other health officials and politicians eg, Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Minister Chris Hipkins. The NZ public were also supportive and followed rules well, and … against outbreaks here. There is potentially also growing public complacency with a decline in country-wide levels of …
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  • Tobacco product innovation in a smokefree world. Oxymoron or commercial cynicism?

    … endgame goals and appears to create opportunities for health researchers and smokefree advocates to work … industry to achieve a common goal.  Yet, despite their public statements, tobacco companies continue to develop new … commitment to a smokefree world should be treated by the public and policy makers as another manifestation of industry …
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  • Testing for COVID-19 in NZ to achieve the elimination goal

    … spent under lockdown conditions and allow the economy and health system to return to more normal functioning. The … other CBACs. There could also be targeted messaging to the public and engagement with community leaders in these areas … during that period to have in place the means to provide public confidence in government’s capacity to ensure that if …
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  • The Omicron waves – Comparing Aotearoa NZ and Australia in four key graphs

    … Zealand (NZ) Government reduces and removes some of the public health measures established to protect New Zealanders from … masks used and improve enforcement of mask use in indoor public settings. Ventilation upgrades in indoor public …
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  • Media release: What can we do to reduce the number of babies dying before, during or soon after birth?

    … Report released recently. In  the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, Dr Rose Elder and co-authors … other measures including the recognition and treatment of health issues that contribute to preterm birth, screening for …
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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … This finding led the researchers and groups advocating for public health to call for further investigation of retailer … amounts to a claim that tobacco profits should trump public health.  That is, the “important revenue stream” …
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  • NZ’s long-running Campylobacter epidemic from poultry: Now with antibiotic resistance

    … treatment. AMR is considered a major threat to global health and the World Health Organization is urging all states to take immediate … is the political will to act on this important and costly public health problem. … NZ’s long-running Campylobacter …
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  • Charting our way back to normal

    …  to estimate infection rates as well as the different health losses and gains across hundreds of scenarios during … Pandemic Trade-offs  – so that policymakers and the public can themselves assess different policy responses under … effectiveness – we will continue to update this tool, and plan to build in new scenarios explicitly looking at future …
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  • Update on Long-COVID

    … about the populations that have been studied 14 . Recruitment has: a) in most cases, been through volunteer or … of individuals aged 18-65 with continuous enrolment in the health plan from 1 January 2019 to the index date, defined as … cross-sectional study (n=84,285), members of the general public – largely within the UK – were invited to take part in …
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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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