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  • Aotearoa’s perinatal and maternal death rates remain inequitable and unjust

    … over the years of 2006-2021 according to the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee’s Annual Report.   … (PMMRC) has recently published its latest Annual Report. 1  It acknowledges the individuals and whānau affected by the … collected on every fetal death from 20 weeks’ gestation (or over 400g if gestation is unknown), neonatal deaths (up to …
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  • Tax reform pros & cons: A brief look from a Public Health perspective

    … Ralph Chapman Tax policies have major impacts on society and designing such policies is complex. But if the … spending, how important goals such as health, well-being or the state of the environment really are, the extent to … more than a billion dollars a year in other tax cuts” (1). For some of the issues in our table we lack detailed …
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  • Why a “mouth and nose” lockdown with masks might help avoid a “full body” lockdown at home

    … The concepts of an Alert Level system, household “bubbles”, and social event size limits are all valuable pandemic … 52 out of 61 people being infected from a single case [1]. Air currents have also been implicated in a restaurant … and successful suppression of daily case growth rates and/or reduction from peak daily case growth rates”. The authors …
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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … of Covid-19 in NZ by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. This work suggests that in an outbreak that … March 2022. Cumulative additional deaths might be 400 by 1 May, near the end of the outbreak (peaking at 10 deaths per … no information on differential health impacts by ethnicity or socio-economic status (yet avoiding health inequities are …
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  • What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective

    … the Federal Government’s  four-phase plan . Phase 1 involves vaccinating, preparing and piloting opening up, before moving onto Phase 2’s … have (do we continue to aggressively suppress the virus, or do we allow high numbers of infections before we use …
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  • Protecting hapu māmā and newborn babies through immunisation during pregnancy in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … effective way of protecting hapū māmā (pregnant people) and pēpi (babies) against whooping cough (pertussis), … but not yet old enough to be immunised themselves. 1  This briefing outlines how we are performing in equitable … Among infants who require intensive care, permanent brain or lung damage is common. 2 In 2023, 20 infants under 5 …
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  • Longer-term harm from Covid-19 in children: The evidence suggests greater efforts are needed to protect children in Aotearoa NZ from infection

    … Longer-term (or ‘post-acute effects’) of Covid-19 in children (including … multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children [MIS-C] and long Covid) are well-described. But there is a lack of … years after Epstein-Barr infection (glandular fever). 1 In the 21 st century there have been three multi-region …
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  • The race to be the first place in Aotearoa to be smokefree

    … There is growing frustration with lack of robust action and progress at the national level with the Smokefree 2025 … to find it hard to talk about the Smokefree 2025 goal (1), to the extent that it is not even discussed in the draft … a smokefree social housing policy which designates all new or refurbished units as smokefree. Any new tenancy agreements …
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  • Establishing Long COVID services in Aotearoa NZ – what can we learn from overseas?

    … COVID (LC) is becoming a substantial issue internationally and many countries are establishing dedicated health services … the onset of COVID-19 and lasting for at least two months. 1 The most common symptoms include fatigue, headaches, cough, … and local clinical pathways for signposting or referring into appropriate pathways such as the post COVID …
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  • Youth vaping addiction: How it happens and why it matters

    … addiction. Physiological changes result in strong cravings and withdrawal symptoms that make it hard to quit nicotine, especially if smoking or vaping is embedded in social life and daily rituals. … rapidly, comparable to the ‘hit’ from cigarette smoking. 1 2 Now an increasing proportion of young people who …
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