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  • Intensifying Covid-19 Control Measures: 5 Measures for Faster Elimination and 5 Measures to Prevent Future outbreaks

    … Also, there is growing concern that conditions such as “long Covid” have potentially very long-term impacts. One … in Auckland – so that case finding can be more focused (as per the successful approach to identify cases in Warkworth … essential office and factory workers are better protected. 5. Enhance economic support for citizens in Alert Levels 3 …
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  • Shifting all isolation/quarantine facilities to a single air force base: The need for a critical analysis

    … now. The big question is around continuing to use hotels as isolation/quarantine facilities or to switch to dedicated … a returnee, based on genetic sequencing of the virus [2]. As the suspected mode of transmission was shared elevator … Christchurch ) allows for large number of returnees with 5,394 in the facilities as per 8 September (47,508 since 26 …
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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … of Health, which evaluated tobacco excise tax increases as a strategy for achieving the Government’s Smokefree 2025 … including progressing key public health initiatives such as the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal. Initially, progress was … effective tool for reducing tobacco use.” New demand (-0.5) and prevalence (-0.34) price elasticity estimates are …
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  • Social contract needed to deliver a 'no BS' public health agenda

    … will see public health activities destined to continue as futile exercises to prove one’s case on economic (growth) … outside of its gratuitous title of Going for Growth . As always, there are claimed constraints on spending in the … “like any household”. Choices and trade-offs are framed, as previously, around facile economic arguments suggesting a …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … Public health responses to infectious diseases such as COVID-19 require us to draw on our common humanity and be … that epidemics require us to draw on our common humanity as well as on our public health expertise in making the … it out’ and then possibly phase 4 ‘manage it’, phase 5 ‘manage it post-peak’, and finally phase 6 ‘recover from …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … emerging evidence concerning adverse birth outcomes such as prematurity. This blog takes a brief look at this new … 1990 (see Figure 1). Recent studies linking nitrate levels as low as 0.87 mg/L NO3-N (from here on simply mg/L) in … exposure to low birth weights 4 and preterm births. 5 These studies build on existing evidence linking prenatal …
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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

    … a national level. But despite the success of the “team of 5 million” – there are still a number of gaps in our … cases for over two weeks (ie, none since 2 July [1], as per 17 July).   The next most important pandemic metric is … had 990 deaths so far, but if it had the worst OECD rate (as per Belgium at 845 per million), it would have had 4200 …
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  • Why Aotearoa New Zealand needs a Public Health Communication Centre

    … PHCC will be covering emerging public health threats such as Covid-19; established public health threats such as tobacco; and underlying drivers of poor health and … include the global spread of mpox (formerly monkey pox), 5 and the serious waterborne campylobacteriosis outbreak in …
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  • Rodents running riot in supermarkets – do we need to worry?

    … around supermarkets in Dunedin, Christchurch and Auckland. As rodents can spread enteric diseases such as salmonellosis – these pests should indeed be completely … four species having commensal relationships with humans. 5 See Appendix One for more information on the ecology of …
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  • Happiness surveys, & can health sector interventions improve well-being?

    … There has also been a growing (re)focus on happiness as the goal of living and public policy, superseding a … ethical concerns into metrics of well-being – such as happiness. Of note from a health perspective, is the … The evidence-base on prevention is perhaps not as strong, but developing. As detailed in this Public Health …
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