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  • That old chestnut again – does any alcohol consumption reduce cardiovascular disease risk? More evidence for “no”.

    … consumption increases CVD. If true, this means the overall health harm from alcohol consumption in our society is even … before) it is probably not scientifically appropriate for public health practitioners, policy makers, and the media to …
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  • Climate Change and Recent Actions of NZ Political Parties

    … A/Prof Ralph Chapman, Prof Philippa Howden-Chapman The health organisation OraTaiao convened a group of experts to … with both opportunities for advancing development and health [1] and also a range of possible disastrous outcomes … mostly in the Pacific. It provided extra investment in public transport (including boosting rail in Auckland), …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: The bigger picture benefits

    … Western countries. This includes lifelong educational and health benefits to recipient children, economic gains for … healthily at school and showing improvement in a number of health metrics. 4-6  Strong international evidence tells us … , school, community, and food system. Implications for public health Strong international evidence suggests there is …
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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … infection risk than Aucklanders wastes limited MIQ space. Public health would be better served by having those rooms available … strategy (ie, to minimise the impact of Covid-19 on public health and keep the case load from overwhelming the …
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  • The arrival of Candida auris in Aotearoa NZ: risk assessment and actions needed

    … practises adopted by the CDC and Victoria Department of Health in Australia have been effective in managing C. auris … a history of hospitalisation overseas. Implications for public health Hospital outbreaks can be avoided through … Dunedin. Prof Michael Baker is with the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington. Appendix: 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

    … government officials, science advisors, iwi [3], health workers, border workers and indeed the whole “Team of … of transmission via surfaces [14] [15]. Border facility health worker infected (September 2020) A single worker This … before being vaccinated [40]. There was lower risk to the public due to Auckland being at Alert Level 3 for the period …
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  • Eliminate the pandemic virus causing COVID-19 or risk an animal reservoir

    … stringent stages of physical distancing and shutdown of public places, travel, and the economy, while ramping up, … population, a general lack of overcrowding (including on public transport), an island nation that is not a major … source of regular additional outbreaks. In addition to the health of animals, there is a human-centred reason why cattle …
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  • Lessons learned from a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa

    … in Aotearoa consume far too much – 40% more than the World Health Organization recommends 3, 4 .  Further, unlike more … and Economic Development (OECD), we don’t have a national plan to reduce it 5 . If we want to see a big reduction in … eating’ information that is readily available to the public. The trial was run almost entirely remotely using a …
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  • Is Keytruda for advanced melanoma cost-effective? Applying the BODE3 rapid cost effectiveness calculator

    … 3 Programme, we have harnessed the high quality linked health data in NZ to create some online calculators. One … (i.e. non-diseased) mortality and morbidity, and health system costs, ‘behind the scenes’, but requires us to … a five-year relative survival of about 15% . We then input health system costs for advanced melanoma (ignoring …
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  • Watch: Introducing the Public Health Communication Centre

    … Find out more about the new Public Health Communication Centre in this video - boosting  the … Aotearoa New Zealand .  … Watch: Introducing the Public Health Communication Centre …
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