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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … for people with Long COVID.  Its multi-disciplinary team approach was strongly supported. Te Whatu Ora should … to 15 key stakeholders including members of Allied Health Team, physicians, referrers and managers during January … All respondents considered that the multi-disciplinary team approach involving allied health and occupational health …
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  • Rising congenital syphilis in Aotearoa New Zealand needs a strong response

    … quarter, 2013-2022 Graph provided by ESR STI Surveillance Team June 2023 Figure 2: Syphilis notifications among women … by year (2018-2022) Graph provided by ESR STI Surveillance Team June 2023   Figure 3: Congenital syphilis notifications … ethnicity, 2017-2022 Source: ESR STI Surveillance Team June 2023 Across NZ most infectious syphilis cases have …
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  • Tobacco industry ‘transformation’ – more smoke and mirrors?

    … – by reducing the health impact of their business through ‘Portfolio transformation’ that focuses on new … replacement of conventional tobacco products with a portfolio of acceptable alternative products or services Some … likely to reduce smoking prevalence. However, PMI’s NNTP portfolio is dominated by heated tobacco products which lack …
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  • NZ’s “Team of 5 million” has achieved the lowest COVID-19 death rate in the OECD – but there are still gaps in our pandemic response

    … at a national level. But despite the success of the “team of 5 million” – there are still a number of gaps in our … policy options more transparent to the public so that the “team of 5 million” continues to understand the direction of … should be provided as a publicly available report. … NZ’s “Team of 5 million” has achieved the lowest COVID-19 death …
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  • Fighting cold, damp housing – a big tick for Warmer Kiwi programme

    … its Warmer Kiwi Homes programme. The Warmer Kiwis Study team at Motu Research recently evaluated the Government’s … commissioned this evaluation. Our Warmer Kiwis Study team worked to determine if the health and wellbeing of …
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  • Nationwide Colorectal Screening in New Zealand: a tricky balance of improving overall population health and addressing inequalities

    … Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention [1] by the BODE3 team, which modelled a nationwide colorectal cancer (CRC) … assess the cost–effectiveness of an intervention the BODE3 team use national Gross Domestic Product as a threshold, as …
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  • What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective

    … During Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19 in 2020, our team  created an agent-based model  which calculated the  … to interpret our results. FINDING OUR TOLERABLE RISK Our team have created ‘heat maps’ of average daily infection … our  COVID-19 Pandemic Tradeoffs tool . There is a large team that have undertaken the model building and data …
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  • Bioethicists, scientists and politicians; decision-making in a pandemic

    … “Getting Through Together” (see quotes). For example: The team of five million is a direct reference to … on the one hand they needed to be seen as part of the “team of 5 million”, but on the other hand their job as an … of decisions are brought to light. The rest of the team of 5 million need to be kind, respectful, inclusive and …
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  • Lessons learned from a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa

    … from our trial. We recorded these lessons during research team meetings and debriefing sessions held throughout the … staff, ask questions, and develop a relationship with the team; and time spent trying to contact participants to … these issues: one, ensure consensus in the research team regarding the best tool to achieve the study outcomes; …
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  • Improving the health of our children: Project Energize bang for the health $

    … the Waikato District Health Board (DHB) and delivered by a team of Energizers with Sport Waikato. The programme covers … childhood interventions]. How did Project Energize work? A team of 27 Energizers plus a Manager worked together, with …
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