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  • Regulation of alcohol marketing is needed to meet health, wellbeing and equity goals

    … Standards Authority (ASA) has just released the report on its review of their Code for Advertising and … alcohol advertising or promotion seen or heard by people under 18 years, and 68% support for banning alcohol-related …
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  • The case for denicotinising tobacco in Aotearoa NZ remains strong: response to online critique

    … inequities. The key criticism – that we relied mainly on evidence from a single randomised controlled trial (RCT) … study, with co-authors from the University of Otago, was a report in January 2022 to the Ministry. The second output, … elicitation process (Excerpted from Appendix of paper under review) There is no firm evidence on the amount by …
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  • Happiness surveys, & can health sector interventions improve well-being?

    … According to the just released “ World Happiness Report 2013 ”, New Zealanders are among the happiest people … Solutions Network. There has also been a growing (re)focus on happiness as the goal of living and public policy, … a consumerist trajectory since Adam Smith that has focused on GDP and a ‘particular’ take on utilitarianism. Indeed, the …
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  • More evidence that elimination is the best COVID-19 control strategy for health and the economy

    … strategies have previously been reported on by some of us in a blog [1] and in the British Medical Journal [2]. The ability of Australia and NZ to … other measures of economic impact (eg, unemployment and under-employment) are also not discussed. Within these 14 …
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  • How might NZ expand community water fluoridation?

    … The recently published Report on the safety of water fluoridation (Royal Society of … central government role has been argued for by the NZ Medical Association [5], and in the editorial pages of …
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  • Running into Trouble: COVID-19 in Japan during the Tokyo Olympics

    … event has now opened, with the opening ceremonies held on 23 July 2021 and competitions scheduled to take place … These concerns have also been highlighted in leading medical journals 1-3 and by many commenters, particularly in … highly transmissible and has proved difficult to control under the best of circumstances. A number of different …
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  • Backing off international infant formula standards: A retrograde step

    … products. This can have significant negative effects on infant and maternal health, wellbeing and population … power of the commercial milk formula industry, continued under-regulation of industry marketing, and chronic … Consultants Assn Board member Dr Yvonne Le Fort –  Medical Director Milford Breastfeeding Clinic, NZBA Board …
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  • COVID-19 hospitalisation peaks in Australian States since Omicron emerged: potential relevance to Aotearoa NZ

    … the months of December 2021 and January 2022 occurred on 19 January with 5,302 people in hospital. ICU numbers also … raises questions about NZ’s ICU capacity given a recent report suggesting that given current ICU use, there remains … Consider preparing for a worst-case scenario of over 1,500 cases per day in hospital (although the “most likely” …
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  • Update on Long-COVID

    … This blog post updates an earlier post on Long-COVID and reports that estimates of prevalence are … individuals and, finally, most studies involved fewer than 500 individuals. Nonetheless, the studies collectively have … at least one new clinical manifestation that required medical care after the acute phase of COVID-19; this was …
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  • Improving our pandemic preparedness: Counterfactuals and continuous quality improvement

    … the Covid-19 pandemic is asking New Zealanders to comment on how pandemics should be responded to in future. One … extensive Covid-19 inquiry ( see Appendix ). 4 The British Medical Association also  reported on the devastating impact … from the pandemic. Most were covered by the Phase one report so work to implement improvements can begin …
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