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  • Covid-19 Case-Fatality Risk & Infection-Fatality Risk – important measures to help guide the pandemic response

    … Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The cumulative number of Covid-19 infections in NZ is not known, but if we assume … Covid-19 surveillance in order to improve estimates of CFR, IFR and other key indicators to help guide future …     Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) is in the post-peak stages of its first Omicron wave of Covid-19. The sharp increase in …
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  • And now the Brits are doing it: A sugary drink tax levy on the industry

    … From 1 April 2018, the UK is putting in place a type of sugary drinks tax – actually a “soft drinks industry … This blog reviews how they are doing it, early signs of its success, and ponders its relevance for NZ.  We also … and numerous jurisdictions that now have some variety of a sugary drinks tax, 1 a public health measure that is …
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  • The policy bonfire of environment protection: 10 examples that threaten public health

    … shows a clear pattern towards allowing more pollution of water, air, and climate. The implications for public health of these policy changes are significant, impacting … can lead to less safe and unhealthy water [13, 14] . Urban development that fails to take natural systems into account …
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  • Where do the parties stand? A low carbon, healthy transport system

    … Summary How will the next Government address the challenge of moving to a low carbon healthy transport system? In this … directly, taken from here ;  # taken from here Policies on sustainable and healthy transport Our second question to the … regulatory package, the National Policy Statement on Urban Development and the Transport Choices Package. However, it is …
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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … As part of influenza pandemic readiness, NZ has a 32 million dollar stockpile of antiviral drugs. But given recent evidence from a new … carefully review this approach. This blog discusses some of the new evidence and suggests options for a review …
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  • Covid recovery or sustainable transformation?

    … from the Covid lockdown provides an opportunity for a sustainable transformation of our society and economy, addressing the climate crisis and … could lock in carbon-intensive urban and commercial development for a long period to come. Other possible …
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  • Public health response to report on potential risk of nitrate from drinking water

    … Fonterra and MBIE, investigated the relative contributions of nitrate in our diet from water and food. The report comes … in drinking water or the diet present an increased risk of cancer.” In this blog, we explain why the evidence in this … mainly on levels in drinking water. Another important development to understand would be the factors that changed …
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  • Comparing two pandemics: A century apart

    … It highlights similarities and differences in the nature of these pandemics, the responses, and their impacts on … Zealand and globally. It also emphasises the importance of learning from the past to inform current and future … new strategic approaches (notably elimination) and vaccine development, in mitigating Covid-19's  effects. By extracting …
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  • The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review

    … published article on the mortality and morbidity impacts of the First World War on the NZ population. While much is known about the large health burden of this conflict (especially for the direct participants), … impacts on the home front. The ongoing digitalisation of all the military files and key data abstracted from them …
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  • What does art have to do with public health, and how can they work together?

    … time that the Public Health Summer School (University of Otago, Wellington) has considered art, and its … practitioners and academics. In this blog we consider some of the issues raised and build the case for ongoing … of a clear division between public and private space. His development of the role of the front yard and side yard as …
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