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  • Decades old nutrition data leave NZ in the dark – updated nutrition survey needed

    … Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) faces a critical information gap on what New Zealanders eat and our overall nutritional status … National nutrition surveys (NNS) provide vital information on population eating habits, food and nutrient intakes, … in 2008/09) have been used to answer important questions on intakes of foods 1 and nutrients 2-4 in specific …
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  • When can COVID-19 be Declared Eliminated from NZ? New Modelling Study

    … official definition of elimination and to upgrade the data on its website so that the public, the media and researchers … with lower levels of symptomatic cases of COVID-19 seeking medical attention and lower levels of testing. For example, … Base case analysis: 39.5% of symptomatic cases seek medical attention in primary care [based on Flutracking data …
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  • “Nudging” to improve QR scanning and mask wearing to protect us all during a pandemic

    … while wearing masks in indoor public settings, such as on public transport, reduces the risk of virus transmission. … transmission in Wellington, have focussed attention on QR scanning and mask-wearing. The Government has responded by reaffirming the requirement to wear masks on public transport and announcing it may mandate QR scanning …
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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … a mental health crisis. The 2024 World Happiness report (WHR24) found a steep decline in the mental wellbeing … addressed quickly or simply. As such, we recommend a focus on positioning mental health based programs and policies as … Public Health Association of New Zealand Youth Caucus, and Medical Student, University of Auckland.  Dr Jessica Stubbing …
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  • Testing for COVID-19 in NZ to achieve the elimination goal

    … urgent issues to clarify in order to minimise time spent under lockdown conditions and allow the economy and health … pandemic (as some of us just recently detailed in a NZ Medical Journal Editorial [1]). We have been fortunate in … a half of infected people have no symptoms at all (based on: cruise ship data [5], and a report from Iceland [6]). …
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  • Reducing salt in food good for health and NZ’s health budget – New research

    … In this blog post we report on a new study from the BODE 3 Programme that suggests … is even some research suggesting that when people are on lower sodium diets they may actually prefer them, based on …
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  • Five actions to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, with a focus on Auckland

    … at a Reconnecting New Zealanders to the World forum on 12 August. It was based on continuing the elimination … and precarious housing. Auckland and NZ generally remain under-prepared for widespread transmission of Covid-19. … Tukuitonga is Associate Dean (Pacific) in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland.  …
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  • Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable

    … around schools excluding pick-up and drop-off times, based on an economic rationale: weighing time saved from faster … Canada of the effect of 40 km/h and 30 km/h speed limits on pedestrian-vehicle collisions, estimated a decrease in … vehicle safety is optimised at these speeds. For example, under Euro NCAP's testing programme, a deformable barrier is …
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  • Tax policy as a key health determinant: Reform for the Covid-19 reset

    … Our tax system has glaring holes. It relies too much on taxing wages and on GST. New Zealand income tax rates have become less … inequalities. Some ideas for a greater level of taxation on some forms of property were canvassed by the Tax Working …
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  • The Covid-19 experience in Aotearoa New Zealand and other comparable high-income jurisdictions and implications for managing the next pandemic phase

    … Omicron variant which has forced a revised approach. Based on a comparison of responses we provide updated … Covid-19 deaths per million, Australia and South Korea report the highest cumulative totals of ~516 and ~504 deaths … these jurisdictions. These differences (particularly under-ascertainment) are likely to be much larger for case …
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