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  • A preventable measles epidemic: Lessons for reforming public health in NZ

    … for the multiple public health challenges faced by NZ.   Introduction The current measles epidemic affecting New Zealand (NZ) is the result of multiple systems failures over a decade or more. In this blog we argue that NZ has an opportunity to learn from this and other public …
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  • Why we need an Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

    … an enormous impact on health and the economy in Aotearoa NZ (NZ) and globally. 1 , 2 Future pandemics are inevitable with … deterioration of the global geopolitical environment. 4 NZ and the world in general are still far from adequately …
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  • What can Aotearoa NZ learn from Australia’s new vaping policies?

    … Summary Unlike Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), Australia has not treated vaping products as consumer … and decrease the appeal of vaping to young people. Should NZ also consider these measures? In this article, we analyse that question and suggest NZ could benefit from adopting some Australian measures. For …
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  • The marked decline of sudden mass fatality events in NZ (1900 to 2015)

    … recently published study on sudden mass fatality events in NZ (10+ deaths per event) found that the occurrence and … 10 or more fatalities occurring between 1900 and 2015 in NZ. This was 18 more events than reported in a previous study … mass fatality events (excluding 5 war-related events) in NZ by time-period (across 281 million person-years of …
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  • Covid-19 Hospitalisations Now Peaking in Aotearoa NZ – But Key Covid-19 Control Measures Still Need to be Maintained

    … the peak burden of hospitalisations and ICU admissions in NZ has been lower than the peaks in Australia. Although … peaked for Auckland on 15 March 2022, but for the rest of NZ this peak is still unclear with the highest number to date … to come. Overall the peak hospitalisation burden for all NZ (971 cases on 16 March) is lower than has been seen with …
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  • Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them?

    … Covid-19 pandemic is continuing in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) with repeated waves of infection associated with newly … Covid, as well as improving outcomes during pregnancy. NZ could get better public health value from these vaccines … need for Covid-19 vaccination in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) and strategies to achieve optimal health benefits from …
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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … pandemic threats has just been published. Unfortunately NZ scores approximately half marks (54/100), coming in 35 th … – far behind Australia. This poor result suggests that the NZ Government needs to act promptly to upgrade the country’s … such as the Joint External Evaluation (JEE) that NZ undertook in November 2018 with the World Health …
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  • Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further

    … a relative scale. To further address these inequalities, NZ policy-makers have many options, ranging from equalising … at the changing ethnic inequalities in mortality rates in NZ over 30 years. We used cohort studies of the entire NZ population using probabilistically-linked census and …
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  • Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status

    … comment on the current COVID-19 situation globally and in NZ. We focus on potential revisions to NZ’s Alert Level system that involve improved use of mass … accelerate rapid progress back to elimination status for NZ while minimising disruption of economic activity and …
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  • NZ’s Quitline Service is value-for-money: But how does it compare with other tobacco control actions in a league table?

    … published a journal article on the cost-effectiveness of NZ’s Quitline service (including its associated promotion in … gain, address health inequalities and save costs for the NZ health system. But in this blog we also compare the New … life-table model (1-3) to explore if the current NZ Quitline Service and its promotion in the mass media is …
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