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  • Why we need an Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

    … globally. The Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on health and the economy in Aotearoa NZ (NZ) and globally. 1 … of Otago. Assoc Prof Sir Collin Tukuitonga , Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland; Director … health initiatives with Māori, Pacific Peoples, and other under-served groups. Effective partnerships with …
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  • Rodents running riot in supermarkets – do we need to worry?

    … food, damage to insulation, damage to water piping, impact on mental health etc). It also discusses the impact of … Retired Public Health Medicine Specialist and former Medical Officer of Health Dr Chris Niebuhr , Researcher - … of Veterinary Public Health, Massey University Images credit: Grant Morriss, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 2)

    … by Dr Caroline Shaw and Associate Professor Diana Sarfati on breast cancer screening. In Part 1 t hey looked at the … from neuroblastoma (5). Breast screening in women under 50 The advice from bodies who have reviewed the evidence on breast cancer screening for women under 50 is fairly consistent. Screening for this age group …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … the BODE 3 Interactive League Table , and focused on how it is important to know what you are comparing – the … and how does it work?  First, what we have put up has data on 67 interventions evaluated by us (often variants around a … There are static versions (e.g. the ACE-Prevention Report ) and non-graphed versions (e.g. Tufts Cost …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … A new report reveals the troubling state of New Zealand’s food … improvement of NZ diets. But have these made an impact on the food environment? Our second assessment from 2018 to 2021 2 shows these had minimal impact on the food environment, though a few government initiatives …
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  • Urgent action needed to prevent a measles epidemic in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … steps are needed to catch up those who have missed out on vaccination, alongside continuing work to increase routine … use of the Aoteoroa Immunisation Register (AIR) to track under-vaccination and support vaccine delivery; school-based … Practice and Primary Care, University of Auckland, and Medical Director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre Dr …
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  • Improving ventilation in schools: a key protection against Covid-19 outbreaks and an enduring legacy for healthier learning

    … learning and concentration.   Photo by  zehua chen  on  Unsplash The Covid-19 pandemic continues to evolve, with an increasing focus on the impact it is having on child health and wellbeing. … as cautious optimism develops about the outbreak coming under control and as children in regions outside Auckland …
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  • The long shadow of war on the health of military personnel

    … us published in a recent December edition of the British Medical Journal is detailed here (1). It found that the impact of the First World War (WWI) on participating NZ soldiers was that they typically lost … study considered randomly selected soldiers who embarked on troopships in 1914 (the year the war started), along with …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … to infectious diseases such as COVID-19 require us to draw on our common humanity and be explicit about our values. … responses. In response to Wilson and Baker’s timely piece on preparing for a potentially severe novel coronavirus … is a proper reminder that epidemics require us to draw on our common humanity as well as on our public health …
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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … ten years.  Simple.  Tax the killers – raise taxes further on tobacco and alcohol and introduce new ones on sugar, salt and saturated fat. Then make it super easy for … envelope.  So successful that from 2015 it will take on medical devices (e.g. hip prostheses and heart valves) as …
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