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  • Children and young people and COVID-19: The urgent need for improved guidance in NZ

    … children and young people in the Auckland outbreak may be a preview of what an uncontrolled COVID-19 pandemic would … Early reports suggested that COVID-19 was typically a mild and self-limiting disease in children, with a very low … understood to be a significant feature of COVID-19 infection. It is now clear that post-infectious phenomena …
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  • Using a fun “Mask Day” at school to promote pandemic protection in the NZ community

    … recommended using face coverings or fabric masks as a strategy to contain COVID-19 pandemic virus transmission, … community. Aotearoa New Zealand is currently experiencing a second outbreak of COVID-19, necessitating Alert Level 3 … led to complacency by the general public in maintaining infection control measures throughout Alert Level 1. The …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could making tobacco products available only through community pharmacies help us get there?

    … could be restricted solely to community pharmacies after the number of retail outlets selling these products are … schools have at least one tobacco retail outlet within a kilometre, with a mean of over five per school. 4 5 In … type of outlet(s) will provide access to tobacco products after the number of outlets selling tobacco has been reduced. …
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  • Backing off international infant formula standards: A retrograde step

    … Summary Infant nutrition is a key determinant of health. The International Code of … infants be exclusively breastfed for the first six months after birth, with continuation of breastfeeding into the … persuasive marketing tools, extremely cost effective and often not easily recognizable as breast-milk …
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  • What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective

    … 2 that’s critical – as it’s supposedly underpinned by a vaccination coverage threshold which means Australia can … opening as vaccination coverage increases and the year after borders open. We use Victoria as the case study, but … cent and 40 per cent still at risk of infection, likely mild, their  chance of passing the virus on reduces by 50 per …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a new Action Plan to achieve our smokefree goal

    … A new Action Plan was launched by one of New Zealand’s great … for the proposed measures. Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 is a world-leading tobacco-control goal with origins in the … 2021, creating a tobacco-free generation of people born after a specified date who will never be able to buy tobacco …
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  • A preventable measles epidemic: Lessons for reforming public health in NZ

    … population health threats. We argue for consolidating a range of dispersed public health activities into a strong … However, this institution was disestablished in 1995 after just three years operation [ 7 ]. Since then, public … promotion and emergency management. These skills are often in short supply in a small country like NZ.  …
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  • E-bikes are the new cars- why don’t transport policy makers treat them seriously?

    … are booming and predicted to overtake sales of new cars in a few years. There were three times as many e-bikes and … that policy makers need to stop treating e-bikes like a recreational luxury item and start thinking of them as an integral part of a fun, low carbon, and healthy transport system. Image …
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  • Is Keytruda for advanced melanoma cost-effective? Applying the BODE3 rapid cost effectiveness calculator

    … Keytruda, or pembrolizumab, is a new immune inhibitor drug that appears to have pronounced … and variably by age. This blog closely reflects a Radio New Zealand interview with Wallace Chapman last Sunday.   Keytruda, or pembrolizumab, is a new immune inhibitor that appears to have pronounced …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill proposes introducing a Smokefree Generation (SFG) policy; over time, this policy … the sale of smoked tobacco products to anyone born on or after a specified date, which is proposed as 01 January 2009. … policies that end sale of nicotine products to anyone born after 2005 and 2010, respectively. 14-16 Flawed opposition …
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