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  • Queenstown outbreak highlights future challenges for clean drinking water

    … Summary Safe, good quality drinking water is crucial to public health. The Queenstown cryptosporidiosis outbreak … findings, there needs to be more public discussion on how to keep communities’ drinking water safe and more … with a compliance order , requiring a boil water notice to stay in place until the plant’s water treatment is …
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  • Long COVID: a crucial reason for vax, mask, and distance

    … have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and is strongly related to the severity of the initial illness. There are insufficient data to provide a trajectory or a timeline for duration and … after the second blog 2 , some results began to emerge from the studies that had been established in the previous 12 …
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  • New e-liquid flavour restrictions: Potential impacts on young people and people who smoke

    … From tomorrow (11 August 2021), Aotearoa New Zealand’s … such as convenience stores. This measure responded to sustained concerns about the rising prevalence of … who had switched from smoking to ENDS return to smoking . How valid are these concerns? ENDS flavours and young people …
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  • Nationwide Colorectal Screening in New Zealand: a tricky balance of improving overall population health and addressing inequalities

    … for New Zealand. We used multiple data sources, ranging from the results of the New Zealand pilot screening programme … and outputs of screening trials internationally. Similar to modelling from other countries, we found that a national … measure health gains. This metric takes into account both how long a person is expected to live and with what quality …
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  • What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective

    … Blog syndicated with permission from “The Pursuit” at Melbourne University, Australia As … scenarios that can help us decide what’s the right risk to tolerate.   As Australia inches up  its vaccine rollout , … 4 when life becomes relatively normal. It’s the transition to Phase 2 that’s critical – as it’s supposedly underpinned …
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  • Breaking the inequity loop

    … Summary History shows us that the best way to improve Māori health is to support Māori to lead and drive … was profound.  Best-guesses of Māori population size from back then – they’re only best-guesses, since even in … as such are worthy of investment.  It is worth considering how those who reframe any ear-marked investment in Māori …
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  • Health co-benefits need to be adequately considered in the Climate Change Commission’s final advice

    … The Climate Change Commission’s final advice to the Government has been tabled in Parliament. This final … the Commission has excluded these health co-benefits from its economic analyses, which currently predict a … that could potentially result in net long-term savings to society from responding to climate change.   The Climate …
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  • Covid-19 Case-Fatality Risk & Infection-Fatality Risk – important measures to help guide the pandemic response

    … estimate the cumulative CFR in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) to be around 0.08%, which is lower than other jurisdictions … increase in the number of reported cases in 2022 indicates how much more transmissible the Omicron variant is, compared … Covid-19. As of 9 May 2022, NZ has reported ~826 deaths from Covid-19. As we have discussed previously , NZ has …
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  • What is happening with vaping among adolescents and young adults in Aotearoa?

    … New Zealand. In this article, we collate the latest data from available sources about the prevalence of vaping and … vaping (2015-2022). 1 The survey did not occur in 2020 due to COVID-19. Figure 1: Year 10 (14-15 years) daily smoking … regular smoking prevalence declined dramatically from 1999 to 2016 (daily smoking from 16% to 3% and regular smoking …
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  • Vaping needs much tighter regulation as we approach Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Two new studies

    … modern vaping devices could be around a third as harmful to health as smoking. The second uses these findings to estimate the net health and cost impacts for NZ of vaping … (PAHs) for all cancers. We reviewed recent studies (from 1 January 2017 onwards) that compared levels of these …
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