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  • Implementing healthy food environment policies in Aotearoa

    … policies influencing food costs, and restricting marketing of unhealthy foods that children see. Sixty experts … to be adopted in many policy areas, such as marketing of unhealthy food to children and healthy food policies in … to be clear leadership from the Public Health Agency, and development of a government-led multi-sectoral National Food …
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  • COVID-19 and the law in Aotearoa NZ

    … a critical role in this country’s successful elimination of community transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic. This blog details key aspects of … at the time of release. Non-compliance also means, in theory, prosecution is possible – with a penalty of …
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  • A single shot to prevent cancer? HPV vaccine can!

    … (vaccinator and vaccine) and give an extra injection of minimal, if any, value to our youth. This … (HPV) is common. A modelling study estimated over 80% of USA adults were infected by age 45 years. 1 HPV spreads … emerging. For example, a Scottish study reported no cases of invasive cancer in women aged 24 to 32 years who had …
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  • Why do so many fear the bicycle?

    … a paper we have just published quantifying the risk of cycling injury. We found it to be low compared to other … marginalised (the bike is shunted, literally, to the side of the road), and how this might be changed.   “It is too … in New Zealand (Legge and Landtroop, 2013). About half of New Zealand households own one or more bikes in good …
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  • Likely rise in invasive strep infections in NZ requires a strategy

    … Summary Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a common cause of sore throats and skin infections in children. In rare … high-income countries reporting increases in cases of iGAS, with children under the age of 10 the most affected … NZ government has invested $10 million to facilitate the development of vaccine to prevent GAS-related diseases. 20 …
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  • Five years on, Covid-19 remains NZ’s most important infectious disease – it still demands a strong response

    … low for the first two years, followed by three years of widespread transmission with mitigation measures aiming to … recommendations from the Covid-19 Royal Commission of Inquiry, strengthening cooperation with Australia, and … our most harmful infectious disease, with thousands of hospitalisations and 664 deaths last year. Understandably …
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  • A National risks assessment should include pandemics and other global catastrophes

    … there is a need to: (i) improve future iterations of the public survey (eg, the next one in February/March … and (iii) explicitly articulate the extreme tail risks of each major trend identified in the LTIB (ie, nuclear war, … national security LTIB is a good start, advocating the development of important features for national security, …
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  • Intensifying Covid-19 Control Measures: 5 Measures for Faster Elimination and 5 Measures to Prevent Future outbreaks

    … for accelerated efforts to ensure more rapid elimination of community transmission. In this blog we look at five … measures to implement immediately, along with a range of other Covid-19 control measures that will help Auckland … medium term.    Image by Luke Pilkinton-Ching, University of Otago Wellington It is critical that Aotearoa NZ continues …
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  • Insights into health system costs of living and dying in New Zealand – New study

    … ). It raises interesting questions about the best use of taxpayer funds for preventing and treating ill health. In this blog we detail the main findings of this study and reflect some of the possible implications.Our study used linked …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … Dr Matt Boyd (syndicated from the blog site of “ Adapt Research ” ) WHO? The Emergency Committee The … regulations (IHR) provide for the Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) in appropriate …
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