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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … As part of influenza pandemic readiness, NZ has a 32 million dollar stockpile of antiviral drugs. But given … here in the NZ Medical Journal ) – albeit a relatively mild pandemic compared to previous ones. Part of the NZ … antivirals. This review benefited from the inclusion (after a long process of requesting them) of “107 clinical …
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  • Tobacco product innovation in a smokefree world. Oxymoron or commercial cynicism?

    … and Philip Gendall Major tobacco companies have presented a vision of a smokefree world, where smoking prevalence has fallen to … declining, such as New Zealand. 6-9 Tobacco companies have often argued their marketing strategies aim to shift market …
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  • Public health priorities in this election year

    … our Public Health Priorities Series, which highlights a range of public health challenges linked by a need for decision-makers to act.  These are all areas where … at the emerging threat of invasive Group A Streptococcal infection and the health impact of recent flooding. There …
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  • Should NZ spend relatively more health resources on improving men’s health?

    … poorer male health. It then discusses if there is a plausible case for shifting more of the available health … key data has been produced by the Ministry of Health in a Major Report on health loss published last year. From the … loss of human capital argument. Premature male deaths are often at young ages so society is particularly losing men …
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  • An open letter to Cabinet Ministers from 74 health professors calling for a sugary drinks tax

    … In this Public Health Expert blog, we reproduce a letter that appeared in the NZ Herald on 2 April 2016. … available evidence on sugary drinks taxes (see Annex 1, after signatures). They have concluded that such taxes are … University of Otago, Dunedin David Murdoch Pathology, The Infection Group, University of Otago, Christchurch Dawn Elder …
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  • Alcohol and suicide: The facts

    … Summary Alcohol use often exacerbates mental health problems and is a well-known risk factor for suicide. Health experts are … is not an effective coping mechanism Reaching for a drink after a hard day is a socially sanctioned coping mechanism, …
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  • Perspective: Options for licensed retailing of nicotine-containing E-Cigarettes in NZ

    … pharmacies and vape shops. It also highlights the need for a very well-considered approach, given consecutive NZ … health. The Ministry of Health is inviting comment on a proposal to allow nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be … That is, the existing NZ ones selling e-cigarette devices often appear to convey a counter-culture, pro-drug use …
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  • Testing for COVID-19 in NZ to achieve the elimination goal

    … and ensuring wide geographic and demographic coverage. After that, testing to assess the elimination goal could … or as hospital admissions. Additionally, cases may remain undiagnosed through incomplete test sensitivity eg, estimated … assessment centres (CBACs) or directly to hospital, often following advice from Helpline. It seems likely that …
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  • The Island Bay cycleway – Terribly important and nothing new

    … This is a sensible move to make the city safer and more attractive … done with the delicacy of the Soviet occupation of Berlin after 1945”. (However some of the least satisfactory aspects … of consents), remarkably little effort goes into learning after the event. In terms of cycling infrastructure and …
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  • Note to the Havelock North Inquiry – Think Big

    … to NZ’s drinking water” is the headline on the cover of a recent New Zealand Listener. It refers to the outbreak in … 5000 people, a third of the population, became acutely ill after contamination of the town’s water supply with the … water from three bores; one of these was closed in 2015 after high levels of E. coli were detected (apparently …
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