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

    … philosophy behind the index is that all countries must not only prioritise capabilities to prevent, detect and rapidly … that might even undermine humanity’s long-term potential for progressing civilisation). Public health capabilities … of critical public health mass in the Ministry of Health makes it difficult for the country to mount a rapid and …
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  • Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable

    … have been shown to be effective in reducing such trauma. For example, a study conducted in Toronto, Canada of the … of their lives. By reducing the speed to around 40km/h only around 12% of pedestrians struck will die. At 30km/h, … extra 14 seconds. This distribution of costs and benefits makes the trade-off an unfair basis for setting speed limits. …
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  • We need rapid progress on digital solutions to help eliminate COVID-19 from New Zealand

    …   In this blog we discuss some of the emerging technologies New Zealand could adopt to support … the country’s COVID-19 elimination strategy. We argue for the prioritisation of technologies to assist with contact … should enable users to control their data, collect only data directly related to the problem and when released …
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  • Vaccination is often cost-effective but not (currently) HPV vaccination for boys in NZ

    … in NZ. In a nutshell, it is not currently cost-effective for boys. Here we put these results into a wider context of … against human papillomavirus (HPV) is generally only funded for girls in NZ . Indeed, this is probably good … study we have done and blogged on . But given that the Australian Government is now providing fully subsidised …
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  • How might NZ expand community water fluoridation?

    … Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor) gave a green light for expanding water fluoridation in New Zealand given the scientific evidence for health benefit and safety, reduction … be expanded further in NZ? Despite the benefits, only around half the NZ population live in areas with …
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  • Five actions to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, with a focus on Auckland

    … by trusted members of those communities, an expanded role for Māori and Pacific providers, and models of care that are … to protect key groups and slow transmission; (4) Upgrading the Alert Level system to provide more nuanced options for … and deaths if Covid-19 circulates widely at the present time (though there are very high levels of uncertainty around …
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  • Daily aspirin for preventing cancer and heart disease – where to from here in NZ?

    … A recently published review has quantified the estimated benefits and harms of taking regular aspirin for disease prevention. The results indicate a relatively … one recent UK study reported that the general public would only take a daily tablet for disease prevention if it gave …
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  • What will the Government’s free vape starter kit programme achieve?

    … Summary As part of the Government’s plan to achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal, … is likely to have.  How many people need to stop smoking for Aotearoa to achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal?  The … been shown to help people stop smoking, 1 realistically, only a fraction of the people provided with a vape will …
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  • Tobacco industry interference: Is the new Government meeting its international obligations?

    … of these narratives by members of the coalition Government makes it timely to remind politicians of their FCTC … to interact with tobacco companies only as required for regulatory purposes, and states that all interactions … in an attempt to impede their introduction. British American Tobacco’s  “ Agree-Disagree ” opposed plain …
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  • Why are some preventable cancer deaths in Māori and Pacific peoples increasing?

    … as some favourable trends. In this blog we discuss some of the key findings of this research and what the options are for NZ society to address the harmful trends for … the future of ethnic inequalities in cancer deaths. Not only are rates of obesity high in New Zealand they are …
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