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  • Reducing the spread of antibiotic resistance in New Zealand, action is long overdue!

    … (NZ) has had high rates of community antibiotic dispensing for many years, much of it for patients with self-limiting … provides no benefit.  An unavoidable consequence of the high rate of community antibiotic use in NZ is that the … in NZ, if prescribers committed to prescribing antibiotics only for patients with conditions in which antibiotics …
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  • What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective

    … and cost impacts . We have now updated this modelling for 240 different scenarios, 100 times each, to look at a … scenario (if we have 50 per cent vaccination of adults only, an R0 of 6.0, 25 expected infected arrivals per day and … OPTIONS The decision as to what risk to tolerate is not ‘a scientific number’ for two reasons. You cannot look at …
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  • What does art have to do with public health, and how can they work together?

    … we consider some of the issues raised and build the case for ongoing collaborations between the arts and public … of seeing’ has drawn critique for a tendency to privilege scientific evidence and a ‘macro’ view, over ways of … Noble also profiled the work of US artist Amy Balkin who makes the commercialisation of pollution stark through Public …
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  • Analysis of a new NZ Treasury Report on soft drink tax

    … The Government has an action plan to tackle childhood … obesity, but it lacks a tax on sugary drinks – a strategy for which there is good evidence.  A new Treasury Report on … tax to obfuscate. We developed this concern a month ago – only to have it confirmed last week. One of us – TB – was …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand's fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care

    … of Covid-19 infection. This conclusion is supported by the increase in self-reported Covid-19 infections, … 1,000 deaths. This new wave of infection is an opportunity for health authorities to remind New Zealanders about the … vaccine 6 . Uptake of boosters remains quite low with only half (50.5%) of eligible 50+ having received a second …
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  • Has the time come for a register of AI systems used by government agencies?

    … reports in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) offer a roadmap for AI implementation, highlighting the citizens' right to know where AI is being used and how … recently released a report on  AI and healthcare , 1 which makes many specific recommendations and outlines a set of key …
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  • The need for long-term thinking – Especially for preventing catastrophic risks

    … policymaking in Aotearoa NZ. This Briefing highlights the problem and the need to strengthen long-term thinking. … public participation. Election year provides an ideal time for political parties to incorporate these ideas into their … 4 and it being a major contributor to health inequities. 5 Only last year has there been a major step forward in …
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  • Putin and the Bomb: Why New Zealand national risk assessments should include planning for the potential impacts of nuclear winter

    … in periods of US-Russia tensions (perhaps the Ukraine war for example), but importantly this means the other half of … of several percent per annum in times of crisis. This makes the annual risk of nuclear war in times of US-Russia … Ha’apai puts this in perspective as it produced only 0.4 Tg. In summary , the available literature suggests …
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  • Three Waters reforms are needed to protect public health and ensure changes are economically sustainable and efficient

    … Public discourse on the Three Waters reforms has been dominated by … flaws in Aotearoa New Zealand’s (A-NZ) regulatory system for drinking water, which were highlighted in the subsequent … programme did not require ongoing monitoring. For example, only ~18,000 people in 2020 were on supplies required to test …
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  • Public health response to report on potential risk of nitrate from drinking water

    … a report, co-funded by Fonterra and MBIE, investigated the relative contributions of nitrate in our diet from water … observing nitrate in drinking water as a risk factor for colorectal cancer. In separate public statements, the … increased cancer risk [4]. However, other studies only observed associations at much higher levels [5-8], while …
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