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  • Smoking and vaping among 14 to 15 year olds: Government action urgently needed

    … who had never previously smoked. Evidence from schools and parents supports these concerns, as do survey findings. … appeal, convenience of vaping to young people . 1-4 Not surprisingly, youth vaping rose rapidly; the ASH Year … dominates their thoughts and disrupts their school work or paid employment. 6 This addiction can disrupt young …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … scientific evidence on the longer-term burden of symptoms and disease in survivors of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of … tightly controlled, incoming travellers are isolated or quarantined as appropriate, hygiene and behavioural … SARS-CoV-2 is more than an order of magnitude more lethal 1 . More crucially, the long-term consequences of infection …
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  • Invisible alcohol outlets: How data blind spots weaken harm reduction

    … harm, but that requires data on who is selling alcohol and where.  The Alcohol Regulatory and Licensing Authority … show ARLA’s database undercounted on-licences by 13% (1,097 venues) and off-licences by 15% (587 outlets) compared … (104 on-licences). None of the on-licences in Gore or the Chatham Islands were recorded in the ARLA Register. …
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  • Five years on, Covid-19 remains NZ’s most important infectious disease – it still demands a strong response

    … the harms to population health. Although hospitalisations and deaths have declined substantially, Māori and Pacific peoples face disproportionate impacts, and Long … five years divide into a successful elimination response 1  from March 2020 to late 2021 and a mitigation period from …
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  • Social contract needed to deliver a 'no BS' public health agenda

    … of the true productive resource constraints. Financial and economic objectives must be subservient to desired higher-level objectives (or outcomes), alongside a social contract specifying the … the duties and responsibilities that flow from that. ” 1 However, the social contract need not be limited to health …
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  • Local alcohol policies: What’s the opportunity to reduce harm?

    … councils, in consultation with communities, to guide where and when alcohol is sold. LAPs were intended to give … whānau and communities, costing NZ an estimated $9.1 billion each year. 1 The harms are not fairly distributed - … Auckland in 2013, over 90% of the public supported capping or lowering off-licence outlet numbers, and the majority …
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  • Five key reasons why NZ should have an official inquiry into the response to the COVID-19 pandemic

    … occur) but also identify lessons for the organisation and resourcing of public health more broadly. Fortunately, NZ … much further than Australia by setting an elimination goal 1 and succeeding by achieving it. As such, it appears to be … health impacts. This understanding would help prevent or mitigate further harmful health impacts in the event that …
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  • The strong case for mask requirements in public transportation and border control settings in NZ’s current COVID-19 pandemic context

    … from requiring fabric mask use in public transportation and border control settings in the “peri-elimination” context … measures, notably widespread use of masks by the public [1]. Current pandemic control policies such as physical … testing is available). Travellers planning essential and/or long visits to New Zealand might also be prepared to have …
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  • Firearms incidents cost Aotearoa $322m a year: Strong laws save lives 

    … Summary Aotearoa needs to maintain and strengthen restrictions on firearms access. Targeted … and hospitalisation cost NZ$321m in lost life-years and NZ$1.48m in hospital care.  Firearms cause preventable deaths, … counts the ongoing health and social costs for survivors – or their families - which means the true burden is higher. …
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  • Five Potential Enhancements of Covid-19 Outbreak Control in Aotearoa NZ

    … to maximise the chances of returning to elimination status and improve our resilience to future outbreaks, we propose … of essential workers; and (v) consider the suspension or minimisation of all incoming international passenger … will be critical to sustaining our elimination status [1] in the medium to longer term. 1) Develop a robust system …
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