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  • Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?

    … will have potentially (much) larger gains, and due to substantial reductions in obesity-related disease it is … nurses, doctors and various allied health workers (from community health workers to personal trainers in gyms). … or cost-effective. (But we have some issues with how these interventions were classified in this review in …
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  • The case for a NZ-Australia Pandemic Cooperation Agreement

    … (accidental or deliberate). Global treaties are crucial to pandemic preparedness and response, and a regional … masks, tests, and vaccines), common protocols for ensuring safe cargo trade, and the establishment of green-zone travel. … a lack of consistent definitions and processes, including how to respond to its failure (as happened with the …
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  • Longer-term harm from Covid-19 in children: The evidence suggests greater efforts are needed to protect children in Aotearoa NZ from infection

    … of these conditions. In this blog we summarise findings from a rapid review of the evidence. These findings indicate to us the need for a precautionary approach in Aotearoa New … 1 In the 21 st century there have been three multi-region coronavirus epidemics/pandemics. In the first two, SARS-CoV …
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  • The Government’s transport plans work against our health

    … outlined in the draft GPS 2024 are, as a package, likely to worsen the already high levels of illness, disability, and … in NZ are getting sufficient physical activity to stay healthy, 14,15 and 40% of children are not sufficiently … at all.  Our full submission has a detailed critique of how the proposed policies will impact on health, but, in …
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  • The strong case for mask requirements in public transportation and border control settings in NZ’s current COVID-19 pandemic context

    … In this blog we identify six likely benefits from requiring fabric mask use in public transportation and … consideration by health authorities in the transition to level 2.   As detailed in a previous blog post, the case … An effective mass masking policy may support a return to safe, affordable, and efficient public transport. Costs will …
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  • NZ’s Quitline Service is value-for-money: But how does it compare with other tobacco control actions in a league table?

    … The study found that this intervention package is likely to be an effective means to generate health gain, address … on past NZ Quitline data and health system costs were from a national dataset linking individual health events to … per the successful “It’s About Whanau” campaign (7-9). But how does this compare with other options? Although the …
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  • Plugging the gap: Aotearoa’s piped water loss far worse than global leaders

    … infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) poses risks to public health and wastes precious public funds—estimated … infrastructure.  In a  previous Briefing we detailed how leaking water infrastructure in NZ poses risks to public … into what is possible for NZ to achieve. Using data from the national water regulator (Taumata Arowai), we …
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  • Changes in mobility in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: NZ vs other countries and the stories it suggests

    … for New Zealand and a range of other countries in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data show the massive … and South Korea. The latter two settings demonstrate how rapid and early use of various disease control measures … published mobility data across March and April 2020, drawn from its location services datasets, which are normally used …
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  • SARS-CoV-2: A modern Greek Tragedy?

    … whatever questions we wanted’ and obtaining answers to these questions ruled out a laboratory leak. Researchers … here . So who is right? Where did SARS-CoV-2 emerge from? When there are competing uncertain hypotheses we might … of an Institute of Virology that is conducting work on how to modify coronaviruses so that they more easily infect …
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  • Removing the nicotine from tobacco: The key component of the current Smokefree Bill

    … Tobacco) Amendment Bill includes three key policy measures from the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: … less appealing and satisfying, and are more likely to make quit attempts and stop smoking; Concerns that … The table summarises their key points and proposes how the policy could be operationalised in NZ. Table: …
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