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“100% Pure” – Public Health Goal Setting
… off the mark with polio vaccination (the last polio case from wild virus in NZ was 51 years ago). It is one of the few … al. Lessons for Zoonotic Disease and Vector Eradication – from past success in New Zealand. …
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Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic
… 5 ‘manage it post-peak’, and finally phase 6 ‘recover from it’. Getting Through Together , written by the National … at the Whangaparāoa Reception Centre , where 157 people from Wuhan are being held in quarantine for two weeks, the …
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New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index
… as a maturity model with the goal being to lift NZ’s score from 54.0 to 100/100. The assessment scored the country at … expert academic researchers and biosecurity practitioners from a diverse range of fields, met to discuss the UK … threats (and worryingly potentially catastrophic ones from novel bioengineered agents) could spill from unprepared …
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Why don’t we make rental housing safer?
… on stairs that have been constructed to allow ‘safe access from one level to another’, as well as adequate lighting. … conditions more favourable to regulation 11 , is removed from injury in rental housing under the ACC scheme. Our …
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Has the time come for a register of AI systems used by government agencies?
… system may be trained to identify cancerous skin lesions from photographs—and then deployed to perform exactly this … the photographs it sees during deployment are different from those it saw during training—but there are ways of … the task the system is trained on is largely different from the task it will be deployed to perform. Language models …
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Why do so many fear the bicycle?
… buses and trains. And why focus just on injury? If deaths from all causes are counted, cycling is a good deal healthier … al, 2010). So why does fear of injury deter so many people from getting around on a bike? We suggest the first point is … turn this round. The most powerful way to bring bikes back from the margin is to provide safe spaces for cyclists of all …
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Perspective: The NZ Health Research Strategy Discussion Document – much scope for improvement
… and identify how under-served populations might benefit from changes to healthcare systems. NZ has made good use of … NZ might be relatively better than others at learning from elsewhere in terms of adopting new research methods and … cardiovascular disease) and reduced carbon emissions from vehicular transport. Current opportunities of health …
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Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa
… quitting often so difficult. Numerous studies , including from Aotearoa, find that people who smoke and are provided … and Parliament must stand firm against opposition from the tobacco industry and its allies and listen to …
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Mobile phone use while driving: Do we need smartcars that turn off smartphones?
… be a requirement that all new cars imported into NZ (eg, from the year 2018) could be required to have technology that automatically stops mobile phones in the vehicle from ringing when the vehicle is in motion. That is …
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New Zealand E-cigarette trial in Lancet – keeping it in perspective
… It might include regulating the removal of nicotine from cigarettes to reduce their addictiveness. It might include removing artificial sweeteners from cigarettes. And it might include supplying alternative …
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