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  • Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’

    … Briefing considers the deaths caused by Cyclone Gabrielle in the context of previous 'sudden mass fatality events' in Aotearoa New Zealand since the year 1900. But fatalities … making cities ‘spongier’. Eleven people tragically died in the flooding from Cyclone Gabrielle. This means Gabrielle …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan: Why this could eliminate smoking disparities for Māori

    … Plan” (the  Plan) represents a significant step forward in how we think about tobacco control 1 . The Plan … blog considers the implications of the measures described in the plan for Māori.   We start this blog by reviewing the … goal. We then discuss the implications of the Action Plan in relation to kaupapa Tupeka Kore and high rates of smoking …
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  • Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?

    … ). But this tool can help with research – as we report in a just published review in the journal “Tobacco Control”. In this blog we briefly consider some of the research …
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  • Perspective: The NZ Health Research Strategy Discussion Document – much scope for improvement

    … needs a firmer strategic outlook with greater coherence. In this Perspective Blog a simple SWOT analysis is conducted … Document , NZ health research articles are above the OECD average in 6 out of 8 health research journal categories. NZ … that the NZ education system does do better than the OECD average for science and mathematics education (18). What …
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  • Breaking the inequity loop

    … Peter Buck (Te Rangi H ī roa) – faced an extreme crisis in the health of their people. 1,2   With infectious diseases … moment, 3 there was an acute need for rapid improvement in Māori living conditions.  In many ways, Pomare, Buck and others were also forced to …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … urgently needed to keep New Zealanders safe, particularly in the light of the current outbreak risk in Wellington. Immediate actions include upgrading the Alert …   The pandemic virus (SARS-CoV-2) continues to evolve and in several respects we are now experiencing a very different …
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  • Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts

    … Long Covid also reduces worker productivity resulting in economic harm. A recent analysis suggests that Long Covid … costing the Australian economy approximately 0.5% of GDP in reduced productivity. In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) this GDP loss would translate to …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … the maths and ethics of both these strategies. In this blog we adapt our work for Australia (just published in this blog ) to the NZ setting. The NZ Government is … people need to become immune through infection to get the average infection rate to 60% to achieve herd immunity. But …
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  • Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025

    … and vaping products such as e-cigarettes vary greatly in their likely adverse health effects and overall impact on … health. Reflecting this, the Ministry of Health announced in May that it will investigate ‘risk-proportionate’ … products. This blog discusses public health considerations in developing the new regulatory framework, and proposes key …
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  • New Zealand doing okay in cancer survival: Results from the largest ever cross-national comparison of cancer survival

    … have recently been published for 10 cancer sites, in an exhaustive and thorough combined analysis (CONCORD-2). … resources at its disposable. This global study puts in context recent specific New Zealand-Australian comparisons … survival estimates for 11 cancers, for three periods in time, for 67 countries. The study was designed to address …
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