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  • Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change

    … caused landslides, ripped through homes, trapped people on roofs, ruined farmland and closed roads. Here we assess … . 10 In Auckland, Watercare reported that 38 of the 500 wastewater pump stations (8%) were overflowing on 14 … noted challenges include ageing infrastructure, historical under-investment and climate resilience. 15   The May 2023 …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … This blog briefly surveys the emerging scientific evidence on the longer-term burden of symptoms and disease in … for a NZ study). It may be relevant that a study of 78 medical personnel over 15 years showed that SARS-CoV-1 (the … a group of researchers developed an online network of case-report notification portals across major UK neuroscience …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … no evidence yet about long-term effects of e-cigarette use on health outcomes, a lot more future research will be needed … and just on biomarker studies (a more detailed Technical Report available on request: [ nick.wilson@otago.ac.nz ]). We … or e-cigarette aerosol (which may not be generated under realistic operating conditions). We included studies …
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  • Aotearoa’s perinatal and maternal death rates remain inequitable and unjust

    … Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee’s Annual Report.   Inequities continue in perinatal and maternal … collection methods Since 2006, data has been collected on every fetal death from 20 weeks’ gestation (or over 400g … its management. Since 2007, data has also been collected on babies with moderate or severe neonatal encephalopathy …
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  • Five key reasons why NZ should have an official inquiry into the response to the COVID-19 pandemic

    … A rapid 1-2 month process that provides recommendations on any upgrades to current response measures. This phase … and resourced in NZ NZ has suffered from decades of under-investment in public health systems as revealed by … from home, the increased use of videoconferencing, online medical consultations, the actions to address homelessness, …
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  • The Omicron waves – Comparing Aotearoa NZ and Australia in four key graphs

    … variant spread into the community was a wave of cases on a substantially larger scale than previously experienced … of test results due to the increased reliance on individual RATs testing rather PCR at this stage in the … genomic sequencing of infection in incoming travellers who report illness within two weeks of arrival). Others have …
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  • How should we manage the harm caused by tobacco product waste?

    … environmental damage and impose significant clean-up costs on local authorities. Although tobacco companies have framed … as responsible for butt litter, recent debate has focused on the tobacco industry’s role in creating tobacco product … according to observational studies, has limited effect on butt disposal behaviours. 6 Fundamentally, these …
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  • A 100 years ago today – the likely first NZ death from the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … disaster to hit this country. In this blog we reflect on this event and draw links with the present day pandemic … serious “second wave”) for the NZ population as starting on 27 August 1918 in the Northern Hemisphere [3]. This timing … located in France. He officially “died of pneumonia” on 28 August 1918 according to his record in the Cenotaph …
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  • Should NZ spend relatively more health resources on improving men’s health?

    … Figure: Years of life lived in good and poor health (based on data in: Ministry of Health 2013 ) The key data has been produced by the Ministry of Health in a Major Report on health loss published last year. From the tabulated data …
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  • The rise and rise of specialist vape stores: Time for the Government to act

    … people has increased rapidly. In a recent New Zealand Medical Journal letter , we pointed out the rising number of … of the VIANZ’s comments and our response focused largely on disagreements about appropriate SVR numbers and gave less … visible to all who walk by, including young people aged under 18 (George St Dunedin store shown below ). Apologise …
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