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  • The case for a NZ-Australia Pandemic Cooperation Agreement

    … pandemic risks from “natural” zoonotic spillover events and human actions (accidental or deliberate). Global treaties are crucial to pandemic … at 27.3 million (95% uncertainty interval: 19.3 to 36.3). 1 Future pandemics are likely 2 and may even be at the …
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  • A preventable measles epidemic: Lessons for reforming public health in NZ

    … can be linked to the problems created by long-term erosion and fragmentation of national public health capacity. … is the result of multiple systems failures over a decade or more. In this blog we argue that NZ has an opportunity to … identify and build support for these necessary reforms [ 1 ]. The measles epidemic in NZ resulted in at least 2,180 …
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  • Five Strategic Approaches to Achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal

    … potential strategies for achieving this important health and equity goal and discuss their implementation. Smokefree … been described as “a world-leading, bold ‘endgame’ goal” [1]. The goal’s origins were in Māori led advocacy to address … strategies into two major structural interventions, one or both of which must be implemented in order to reach a …
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  • Is youth vaping a problem in New Zealand?

    … report concerns about increasing vaping on school grounds and confiscating vapes, ASH Year 10 survey data have been … a potential means to achieve rapid reductions in smoking. 1 Despite uncertainty about ENDS’ immediate and long-term … so long as smokers transition fully from smoking to vaping or use them to quit their nicotine addiction completely. …
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  • Preparing for Omicron: A proactive Government response is urgently needed to minimise harms

    … Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 to minimise harms to health and the economy. The first urgent priority is to increase … have continued to decline to around 30 cases a day (Figure 1). This decline is also reflected in hospitalised cases (and … average of Covid-19 hospitalisations and cases in ICU or HDU (from 1 August 2021 to 16 January 2022 from Ministry …
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  • Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … is undersupplied by the market in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and councils have underinvested in high-quality … Families and whanau who are homeless, in insecure housing, or living in severe housing deprivation often experience … know such housing is a vital foundation of a healthy life. 1 It provides security and privacy, the ability to make a …
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  • To ensure success of the trans-Tasman travel “green zone”, we need to reduce system failures at the NZ border

    … July 2020 there have been 13 identified border failures and at least 6 internal MIQ facility failures. The … first in the world by the Lowy Institute in Australia [1] and its economic indicators, such as GDP impacts, also … (eg, those from Australia until the green zone starts or during periods when the green zone is suspended) and …
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  • COVID-19 and Māori health – when equity is more than a word

    … As Māori academics, researchers and health professionals, we are extremely concerned about … substantial list of other ‘equally’ important principles, or demonstrate “nonperformativity” 1 in reference to equity. Saying, ‘equity is important’ is …
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  • Throwing open the windows: The need for ventilation improvements as part of Covid-19 outbreak control in Aotearoa

    … In addition to public health measures such as masking and physical distancing, further protections are needed to … which states that it can spread in “poorly ventilated and/or crowded indoor settings” [1]. This is also the view of the US Centers for Disease …
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  • A single shot to prevent cancer? HPV vaccine can!

    … Zealand (NZ). This is despite its excellent safety profile and evidence that it prevents cancer. Added to the NZ … 75% target. The World Health Organization now recommends a 1-dose vaccine schedule for 9-20-year-olds. Forty countries, … to 32 years who had received at least one dose at age 12 or 13 years of age. 2 (See Appendix 1 for more on the virus …
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