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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … variant outbreak of Covid-19 in NZ by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. This work suggests that in an … we look at the results of modelling by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of … estimates in the light of the following: There is no information on differential health impacts by ethnicity or …
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  • Earth Overshoot Day: Should Aotearoa New Zealand be more like Uruguay?

    … guiding policy towards more ecologically sustainable and health promoting practices. Central and Local Government … these measures have important co-benefits for population health. This Briefing explains the concepts behind Earth … all levels, including an emphasis on sustainable resource management , environmental conservation and reduced …
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  • Disposable vapes: An emerging environmental health threat

    … vaping devices is emerging as an environmental and public health threat globally and in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). … erode environmental kaitiakitanga and could undermine the health gains people achieve when using vapes to stop smoking. … products fall outside the capacity of conventional litter management systems, which were not designed to handle such …
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  • Long COVID: a crucial reason for vax, mask, and distance

    … or after COVID-19. A society wanting to minimise the health and cost burden of managing long COVID would therefore … Care Excellence (NICE) has produced a Rapid Guideline on management 19 , little had been written clearly on the kinds … show that kidney damage occurs early and in temporal association with respiratory failure, is associated with a …
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  • COVID-19 hospitalisation peaks in Australian States since Omicron emerged: potential relevance to Aotearoa NZ

    … 2021. This surge has led to extreme stress on the health system , although it appears that the Omicron wave may … suggest the following actions by the Government to aid the management of COVID-19 in NZ and to help ‘flatten the curve’ … a testing strategy (including wider access to RATs and information about how to use them effectively), and greater …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … Tiriti o Waitangi the Government is obliged to protect the health and wellbeing of Māori. It is further obligated under … evident for women aged 15 to 24 years. In the 2015/16 NZ Health Survey 34% of Māori in this group smoke compared with … with smoking. In recent years, the NZ Ministry of Health has adopted the position that vaping is useful for …
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  • Optimising the effects of plain packaging for tobacco – making Quitline information more salient

    … regulations improve the current presentation of Quitline information and provide smokers with support to manage the … that determine implementation of the new law. The Health Select Committee has proposed four objectives for the … embellished only by large and off-putting pictorial health warnings, are likely to create considerable dissonance …
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  • Lessons learned from a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa

    … Wi-Fi-enabled data collection devices, and web-based data management systems offer the opportunity to deliver and … in Aotearoa consume far too much – 40% more than the World Health Organization recommends 3, 4 .  Further, unlike more … against a kind of ‘placebo’, simple ‘heart healthy eating’ information that is readily available to the public. The …
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  • Ready or not? Pandemic preparedness index and implications for NZ

    … vulnerable to the persisting risk of pandemics. The Global Health Security (GHS) Index is one tool for finding out how … .  The world continues to face biological threats  Major health crises beyond the Covid-19 pandemic are almost certain … could be informed by artificial intelligence. The Global Health Security (GHS) Index  The GHS Index is a …
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  • Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes

    … of viable alternative sources of nicotine. The public health benefit of denicotinising cigarettes is likely to be … every year from smoking and a persistence of associated health inequities.  Introduction The history of tobacco … regardless of sex or gender, race/ethnicity, age, mental health status, and education or socioeconomic status. 9,10 …
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