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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … but that countries must also have a robust health system, be compliant with international norms, and work to improve … progressing civilisation). Public health capabilities must be regularly (annually) exercised and countries need to be transparent about their capabilities to assure neighbours. …
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  • The humility of being second to Australia in cancer mortality

    … higher death rates from cancer than Australia that cannot be explained by higher incidence for most sites. This … there are differences in cancer survival, which appear to be particularly marked for bowel cancer, and for breast … ” led by Diana Sarfati would suggest that inequalities may be lessening, albeit still present in places. And we do know …
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  • Rodents running riot in supermarkets – do we need to worry?

    … diseases such as salmonellosis – these pests should indeed be completely excluded from retail outlets. But this Briefing … been heated such as bread or canned produce are likely to be lower risk and in fact are a source of human food in some … evidence of rodent activity in human food can be very upsetting, it is likely that it causes only a …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table Series: Prevention versus treatment, voluntary versus mandatory, targeted versus untargeted – can we generalize?

    … might typically generate the most health gain and be best value-for-money. In two of the previous blogs in this … jumping to abandon such treatments (!), and it must be noted that: The treatment interventions are for patients … voluntary interventions might still sometimes be the best choice eg, if there was a genuine need for …
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  • Is youth vaping a problem in New Zealand?

    … and offer suggestions about how this behaviour needs to be more effectively monitored. Image by Christo Anesteva from … there is general agreement that vaping is likely to be less harmful than smoking, so long as smokers transition … to vape. Vaping uptake among non-smokers appears likely to be concentrated among young people, whose engagement in risk …
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  • Are we ready to eliminate invasive meningococcal disease in Aotearoa New Zealand?

    … shows that we may finally have an opportunity to be permanently free of this disease. In this Briefing we … by the respiratory route. IMD elimination now looks to be a potentially achievable goal for NZ. Desirability of … rises to 98% of the notified cases where a serogroup could be identified. No vaccine has complete effectiveness, meaning …
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  • New modelling on the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in NZ associated with arriving travellers

    … quarantine). As noted previously, 2 risk assessment can be used to stratify the risk of SARS-CoV-2 virus importation … source country. This approach allows source countries to be classified using a traffic-lights system into green, amber … flights to result in an outbreak. However, the risk could be substantially reduced by a package of non-quarantine …
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  • We need rapid progress on digital solutions to help eliminate COVID-19 from New Zealand

    … privacy, public acceptability and coordination that must be overcome if these innovations are to make substantial … impact and where the efficacy of existing solutions can be substantially improved. For example, existing solutions … Interventions and their associated digital solutions can be divided into two main groups: (a) those where their …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’

    … the list getting longer. Sudden mass fatality events can be broadly defined as those events leading to death of 10 or … a bubble to display more detail. Gabrielle is likely to be the highest flood event death toll since 1900 after the … human health and wellbeing. In the short term these would be due to evacuations, power outages, and damage to water, …
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  • The cost burden of excess weight in New Zealand: Sizing up a new report

    … preventable healthcare costs for successive governments to be studiously ignoring. Cost of illness studies, like this … of a condition by estimating the healthcare costs that can be attributed to the condition (direct costs), the associated … with obesity. The costs identified in this report need to be read as costs to society for a societal problem. The …
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