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  • Is it time to pilot a test and treat programme for reducing the stomach cancer burden and inequalities in NZ?

    … We have just published a modelling study on stomach cancer prevention in the … population screening programme, that tests and treats for infection by the bacteria Helicobacter pylori in the stomach, … cardiovascular risk assessments in primary care in NZ). After these adjustments we modelled an overall 17% reduction …
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  • Protecting New Zealand children from the developing Omicron outbreak

    … approaches, addressing various literacy levels and impairment challenges. Information can be made available in … not readily available in child sizes in NZ; yet they are often reported by children as being easier to wear as well as … approach to Covid-19 would be preferable to testing ‘after the fact’. Protecting children’s wellbeing in the …
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  • The alarms are flashing red: Five reasons to upgrade our Alert Level system before the next Covid-positive traveller visits a major city

    … us from outbreaks, avoid lockdowns, help us transition to a post-vaccination future, support prevention of other … Te Tiriti o Waitangi. On 19-21 June 2021 NZ experienced a critical incident in which a traveller with Delta-variant Covid-19 infection visited numerous crowded indoor venues in …
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  • How might NZ expand community water fluoridation?

    … Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor) gave a green light for expanding water fluoridation in New Zealand … this is a cost-effective intervention, indeed one that is often cost-saving given the prevention of future dental care … CWF is not accepted by a majority of the community – even after mass media campaigns that provide information. Hence …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … “transformation” vision, which they claim will herald a new smokefree world. Philip Morris International (PMI) has … this rhetoric yet this company’s recent launch of a new, super value, smoked tobacco product : the cigarillo … that they had long known their products were harmful and often fatal, and to compensate for smoking’s loss of social …
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  • Intensifying Covid-19 Control Measures: 5 Measures for Faster Elimination and 5 Measures to Prevent Future outbreaks

    … to health, social wellbeing and the economy. There is a need for accelerated efforts to ensure more rapid … campaign to promote improved ventilation in all settings (often as simple as opening windows), along with economic … with essential workers operating in Alert Level 4. After an Auckland-focused campaign, there could be a national …
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  • The cost burden of excess weight in New Zealand: Sizing up a new report

    … The latest New Zealand Health Survey results show a substantial up-tick in both childhood and adult obesity prevalence after plateauing for a decade. This is of great concern and it makes a new report …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … proposed Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan sets out a perceptive vision for reducing smoking prevalence and … were less harmful than “regular” variants. 5 Even after regulators banned the use of these terms, tobacco … that changing the pH of filters led these to discolour after smoking, thus creating the misleading impression that …
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  • COVID-19 and the law in Aotearoa NZ

    … Health and emergency laws have played a critical role in this country’s successful elimination of … relating to avian influenza, was enacted following a review of gaps in the Crown’s statutory powers under the … at some point between 90 days, or at maximum 2 years, after the Act came into effect on 13 May 2020. There is now a …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … to drive this point home, I noted in the news today that a resident of Westport (a New Zealand town flooded by a ‘1 in … have a major effect, and are inappropriately rationalised after the fact (Taleb, 2007). However, coronavirus pandemics … rears its head’ ( Gupta, 2009 ). Knowledge about human cognitive biases explains why we ignore these kinds of risks …
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