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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques

    … 2025” Action Plan was launched at Parliament on 2 August. A previous blog described its key features and a rationale … smoking prevalence, though the projected impacts are often modest (9). The problem is that these estimates of … for, the policy was communicated before implementation and after implementation as people experienced its benefits (15). …
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  • The changing COVID-19 situation in Taiwan – what can NZ learn from Taiwan’s latest outbreak?

    … effective response to COVID-19 during 2020. However, a recent surge of community cases in northern Taiwan from … outbreak), unlike NZ and Australia where strict (but often quite short) lockdowns in cities or states have … NZ, into Alert Level 2 at the end of June 2021, after a traveller visited from Sydney, Australia, who was …
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  • The arrival of Candida auris in Aotearoa NZ: risk assessment and actions needed

    … recently recorded its first case of Candida auris : a pathogen that is difficult to contain in healthcare … that is directly attributable to C. auris invasive infection is unclear. 1  Hospital outbreaks of C. auris are … that colonisation may continue for months, including after patient discharge. 21 22 To date, most confirmed cases …
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  • “Action for Healthy Waterways”: some big ticket actions that the Government has neglected

    … The NZ Ministry for the Environment has produced a valuable discussion document with many good ideas for … in an integrated strategy to improve our waterways: a fertiliser tax, taxing ruminant animal products, and promoting the right sort of reforestation with a high carbon price.   Introduction As we recently pointed …
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  • Why Aotearoa New Zealand needs a Public Health Communication Centre

    … Whaia te mātauranga hei oranga mō koutou   —  Seek after learning for the sake of your well-being   Kia ora! … as poverty and environmental degradation. It will play a key role in highlighting and explaining new evidence and … of novel research is made clear, findings from new studies–often funded by the NZ taxpayer–are at risk of sinking into …
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  • When can COVID-19 be Declared Eliminated from NZ? New Modelling Study

    … This blog details a recent modelling study we conducted. In it we estimated … “28 days since the onset date of the last known infection” that has been suggested for NZ previously. 7 This … case [Re = 1.0] due to accumulation of immune individuals after infection). In each stochastic simulation, the delay …
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  • Urgent action needed to prevent a measles epidemic in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … Summary Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) risks a large measles epidemic. Child immunisation coverage at two … the measles vaccine status of those in their party (born after 1969) when they book their travel. Vaccination would be … department (ED) is a significant risk as this is where undiagnosed or newly-diagnosed cases are likely to present. …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … dispute settlement (ISDS), the TPP agreement as a whole applies to tobacco, and breaches of the TPP might, in … the partial investor-state dispute settlement exclusion is a small step in the right direction, the fundamental … another. In practice complaints taken by governments are often driven by multinational companies [4, 5]. The grounds …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … Daley of the Grattan Institute, he argues that there is a need in Australia for a better articulation of the … it appears this is what most countries are pursuing – but often without clear articulation. Daley also offers a third option, Endgame B, to tracing and tracking every infection, but we think of this as part of the toolkit for …
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  • Throwing open the windows: The need for ventilation improvements as part of Covid-19 outbreak control in Aotearoa

    … virus-laden aerosols can remain airborne for hours [3, 5]. A recent review has noted the importance of infectious … environment, including improved functioning of workers on cognitive tests, reports of improved sleep, and fewer “sick … system failures in Australia and NZ [15, 16]. For example, after three transmission events at the Pullman Hotel MIQ …
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