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  • Five actions to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, with a focus on Auckland

    … measures, including: (1) Enhancing Covid-19 control in groups who experience deprivation and marginalisation; … on 17 August and has now continued for more than 6 weeks in Auckland. Application of Alert Level 4 restrictions … transmission. The regular detection of unexpected cases in settings such as hospitals (notably Middlemore and …
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  • Being Bolder – Public Health Endgames for NZ

    … eliminated from NZ At the Public Health Congress in Auckland last week, one of us presented on potential … – partly to inform thinking around the tobacco endgame in New Zealand (the Smokefree Nation Goal for 2025). This … been eradicated globally: smallpox (with the declaration in 1980) and the cattle disease “rinderpest” in 2011 (with …
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  • BMI keeps on going up – and reflections on the Diabesity Symposium

    … Is body mass index (BMI) relentlessly increasing in NZ, or plateauing? In this blog we present trends in BMI by ethnicity in NZ … The results are shown in the graph below. Figure 1: Average adult BMI by sex by ethnicity in NZ (LINZ =Life in NZ …
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  • SARS-CoV-2: A modern Greek Tragedy?

    … remains inconclusive. The WHO investigation concluded in favour of a natural origin, being satisfied that ‘asking … because it was closely overseen by China’s government. In fact  a new report  just published in the  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists  argues in favour …
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  • Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?

    … allow nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be sold legally in NZ. This consultation raises questions about how the wider … of e-cigarette use (known as “vaping”) will be managed. In this blog, we consider arguments about the indoor public … an overall strong rationale for “Smokefree = Vapefree” in all circumstances for the indoor areas covered by current …
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  • Would a sugary fizzy drink tax reduce health inequalities? Probably Yes

    … A possible tax on sweetened sugary beverages (SSBs, and in particular sugary carbonated soft drinks) is topical … such a tax would probably be good for health of all groups in NZ, but particularly the poorest New Zealanders. Such a … looks specifically at regressivity of the SSB tax: “The average yearly per capita tax burden on low-income households …
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  • Is Keytruda for advanced melanoma cost-effective? Applying the BODE3 rapid cost effectiveness calculator

    … drug that appears to have pronounced effectiveness in slowing – even reversing – disease progression in patients with advanced melanoma. It has received much media attention in recent months, and even calls from politicians to …
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  • Reducing the health burden from contaminated drinking water in NZ: Opportunities arising from the new Water Services Bill

    … threats, notably the waterborne campylobacter outbreak in Havelock North, have highlighted failings in NZ’s regulatory system for drinking water. In this blog we consider how the new Water Services Bill …
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  • Monitoring and forecasting the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand including the successful impact of the lockdown

    … Auckland; 2 Motu Economic and Policy Research, Wellington) In this blog, we introduce our modelling approach to … major impact of the lockdown on containing the pandemic in New Zealand. The global COVID-19 pandemic represents an … of an infectious disease. Simply, it is the average number of secondary cases generated by a primary case …
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  • Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change

    … swept across large parts of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) in February this year, it displaced thousands of people as … Here we assess the reported damage to water infrastructure in this disaster and find evidence of a low level of … resulted in at least eight boil water notices, lasting an average of 19 days (ranging from five to 45 days for the …
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