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  • Unsafe waters: The hidden Campylobacter infection risk in rural New Zealand

    … waterborne diseases is demonstrated by past outbreaks. In 2016, more than 5,000 residents in Havelock North were … supplies. On average, areas with high dairy cattle density report an incidence of 978 cases per 100,000 people, while …
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  • Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive

    … this is due to a mix of changing incidence ( remainder of report can be found here ) (prevention) and improving … in international terms. Last week the WHO released the annual World Health Statistics – New Zealand males ranked 6 …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … the advertising and sales advantages are obvious .” 5 A report on Vantage cigarettes conducted for RJ Reynolds … surprising that the Royal Society of New Zealand’s recent report on plastics mentions cigarette filters only twice in … cardboard.  However, smokers who have tried this strategy report it as ineffective . Furthermore, the effort required …
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  • Smokefree Laws: Reducing tobacco outlets will decrease crime

    … crime and ram raids Police data also include a scanning report on 283 ram raids that occurred between November 2020 and October 2021. This report shows that money and the cash till were the most …
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  • Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls

    … family planning and student and youth health clinics), report a declining number of first presentations for genital … a cost-effective investment in the long-term (and we will report on our yet to be published modelling work on HPV …
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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … 7 events across 5 facilities” [7]. Unfortunately, that report from the Ministry of Health, which received wide media … This was a rare situation where part of the investigation report was made available to the media [25]. Returnee-related …
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  • Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?

    … of the product primarily through the oral mucosa. How to report non-compliant websites or nicotine products Members of the public can report concerns about potentially non-compliant oral tobacco, …
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  • Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them?

    … surveillance systems 37 need to be able to track and report on key vaccine measures, notably coverage of at-risk … and to protect them against Long Covid Actively track and report vaccine coverage, particularly for critical groups: … is not a routine regular vaccine in the way that we do annual influenza vaccines; that is always something of a …
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  • What does the novel coronavirus epidemic mean for New Zealand?

    … WHO. Under the IHR all WHO members are required to rapidly report potential emerging health threats such as this novel … which is clearly the situation here. China was quick to report this new coronavirus and has been reasonably …
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  • Does healthy food really cost more?

    … than less healthy ones. Cost per calorie Other authors report similar findings. Davis and Carlson (2014) (4) used a … the price of a basket of food monthly (7). Also , the annual University of Otago Food Cost Survey (8) calculates …
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