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  • Improving our pandemic preparedness: Counterfactuals and continuous quality improvement

    … Summary Phase two of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic is … comparing our experience of using an elimination strategy for almost two years with what is likely to have happened if … staff to deal with the extra patients we are seeing. The only change is staff are having to work harder and for …
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  • Open data, transparency and power – role of the Virtual Health Information Network

    … The NZ Government is showing strong leadership on data … (IDI) has provided the necessary infrastructure for researchers and analysts to access NZ health data safely … so no one can be identified. Access to data is only provided to bone fide researchers who have undergone …
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  • Covid-19: A planetary disease

    … conditions; and the capture, trade and killing of animals for human consumption as well as for therapeutic purposes and … include those relating to an earth systems approach; new scientific findings, in particular the idea of planetary … Stop the extinction of living species. But currently the only legal initiative that seems to have some current …
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  • Taxing sugary drinks: Empirical findings out of Mexico

    … Last month the British Medical Journal published a study on the highly … and beverage expenditure. The authors weighted the results for household composition, locality and socioeconomic … model” that has the advantage of accounting for non-time varying unobserved characteristics of households (for …
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  • NZ should prepare for a potentially severe global coronavirus pandemic

    … In this blog we briefly summarise our assessment of the highly uncertain new coronavirus threat. Given its … this major health and economic threat. Now is the time for maximum proactivity. There is much we still don’t know … NZ’s preparations which scored poorly at 51/100 and ranked only 35 th in the world in a recent global study [9].) …
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  • The long shadow of war on the health of military personnel

    … This blog post looks at a recently published study of the lifespan of NZ soldiers who participated in the First … what is known about the longer term health outcomes for military personnel participating in war – and suggests … increased risk of mortality in long-term survivors of the Second World War (14). Other research on veterans of the …
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  • Establishing Long COVID services in Aotearoa NZ – what can we learn from overseas?

    … dedicated health services to support people with the condition. In this blog, we discuss what LC services look … overseas and identify key components and considerations for the development of high quality and culturally … Board; Russell is the Associate Chief of Allied Health Scientific and Technical Professions, Waitematā District …
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  • Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis

    … compared to international best practice.  This is the second such evaluation, the first being in 2014.  In this … there remain major implementation gaps, especially for policies to improve the healthiness of food environments, …
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  • The COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa/NZ: A brief photo-essay with 10 photos

    … In this photo-essay of the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa/NZ, each photo is … quarantine of contacts and isolation of cases. NZ is the only OECD country with an explicit elimination strategy and … in mid-May to 36.1/100; with the equivalent scores for Australia being 73.2/100 and 64.5/100). 3 Nevertheless, …
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  • Social advantage associated with greenhouse emissions from transport in Aotearoa

    … the required reductions and creating public support that makes this radical change possible. 1,2 Monitoring inequity … emissions from household travel (i.e. personal travel for work, leisure and other reasons). It was a consistent … (those with the lowest emissions) were responsible for only 20% of the total weekly emissions (Gini coefficient …
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