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Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?
… interventions (4 trials): “reported no differences in all-cause or CVD -related mortality between … groups at 3 to 15 years of follow-up. Also, there were no consistent findings for the effects on CVD events over 8 … 6 to 12 months among intervention groups, but there was no consistent benefit of the intervention compared with …
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Preventing outbreaks of COVID-19 in NZ associated with air travel from Australia: New Modelling study of alternatives to quarantine
… reduced the risk from one outbreak every 1.7 years (no interventions) to every 29.8 years (95% uncertainty … 1). We assumed one Australia to NZ flight per day. When no control interventions were in place, an outbreak of … outbreak every 29.8 years (95% UI: 0.8 to 110 years). If no PCR testing was performed, but masks were used by …
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Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?
… ones) will say that you get fat from over-eating and its no-one’s fault but your own. This is not just due to … when nihilistic biologists such as myself suggest there is no such thing as free will, it’s not just the libertarians … of obesity as an issue of personal responsibility. But no matter how appealing the idea that we can change our body …
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Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant
… and few had succeeded by the time Covid-19 struck). No country was adequately prepared for Covid-19 (Dalglish … would cry. We were struck by a black swan. Covid-19 was no black swan Black swans, are outlier events that comes as … in a pandemic would never be a policy option and as such no funding could be provided to explore the policy in more …
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Reducing the spread of antibiotic resistance in New Zealand, action is long overdue!
… infections, for which antibiotic “treatment” provides no benefit. An unavoidable consequence of the high rate of … frequently prescribed for illnesses for which they provide no benefit. Influential healthcare leaders in NZ, such as Te … as coughs, colds, and sore throats, that pose essentially no risk of harm, and that are not improved by antibiotic …
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Social contract needed to deliver a 'no BS' public health agenda
… on to future generations. Claims echoing the “there is no money” defence reflect a narrow financial perspective, … claimed constraints on spending in the guise of “there is no money”, “we can’t afford it”, or versions around that … Briefing adds The Government Budget rhetoric of “there is no money” perpetuates a narrow and inappropriate accounting …
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Expansion of “green zones” may provide a chance for the global eradication of COVID-19
… achieved, establishing and maintaining “green zones” with no local spread will have many medium term benefits by … by some governments [15] and groups. There is also no vaccine yet licensed for children, though trials are … become a possibility. Intranasal spray vaccines would mean no injections and therefore could facilitate increased public …
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Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status
… primary schools** (voluntary mask use) and home settings. No travel permitted outside any designated outbreak region … care settings, and aged residential care facilities. No travel from any designated outbreak region to the other … funerals and tangihanga). Level 1.5 As above. No restrictions All social gatherings limited to 50 people …
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Update on Long-COVID
… not easy to determine because, in most reports, there were no denominators providing numbers of cases; and, again, that … or reporting of symptoms and signs. There are almost no studies with sequential observations on the same … They identified three “comparator groups”: from 2020 (no COVID-19 diagnosis, positive PCR, or hospital admission); …
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Rising congenital syphilis in Aotearoa New Zealand needs a strong response
… infants can have a spectrum of clinical problems from no symptoms, to preterm birth; to severely affected with … are particularly common in young infants. 3,4 Infants with no initial symptoms may develop problems over years including … the Māori and Pacific midwifery workforce. However no specific funding at a national level has been allocated …
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