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  • The changing COVID-19 situation in Taiwan – what can NZ learn from Taiwan’s latest outbreak?

    … CDC in response to emerging threats, such as pandemics. 1  Taiwan’s response to COVID-19 started on 31 December 2019 … cases, mass mask use, and clear quarantine rules. 1-3 Our previously published review of the COVID-19 response … in 2020, and far surpassing NZ’s COVID-19 tally (figure 1). Taiwan does not perform whole genome sequencing of all …
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  • Why are some preventable cancer deaths in Māori and Pacific peoples increasing?

    … pattern of ethnic inequalities in cancer in New Zealand. 1 For every 100,000 people who identified as Māori, from … deaths per 100,000. In 2006-11, Māori men and women were 1.91 and 2.18 times more likely to die from cancer than … European/Other respectively. Pacific men and women were 1.32 and 1.46 times more likely to die from cancer than …
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  • What will the Government’s free vape starter kit programme achieve?

    … to stop smoking this year. This estimate is less than 1% of the 82,000+ people who need to quit if we are to … 34,700 European/other would need to stop smoking (Table 1). The goal has already been realised among Asian peoples. … new vape kit initiative make a difference?  Table 1: Numbers in each population group needed to stop smoking to …
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  • The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review

    … personnel who left NZ for the war is detailed in Table 1 (a simplified version of the one published in our article [1], full free text online ). The major features were the … from the war for those in military training and for the 1.1 million civilians in NZ is also detailed in Table 1 (and …
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  • And now the Brits are doing it: A sugary drink tax levy on the industry

    … From 1 April 2018, the UK is putting in place a type of sugary … sugary drink taxes. This is not an April fool’s joke.  On 1 April, the British put in place a sugary drinks tax – … that now have some variety of a sugary drinks tax, 1 a public health measure that is rapidly gaining traction …
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  • More wastewater testing could guide optimal Covid-19 control on the path back to elimination

    … It also achieves these better results at perhaps only 1% of the cost of community testing. Even though there are … There are now a total of 28 sites in the South Island. 1 Nevertheless, not all of these sites will have daily … the table below in terms of effectiveness and cost. Table 1: Estimated probability of detecting people with SARS-CoV-2 …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?

    … we recently published as a pre-print on the medRxiv site . 1 Methods Using an Excel spreadsheet populated with NZ Health … law passed in 2022 and was implemented from 1 March 2023 Smoking and vaping prevalence trends (BAU) … these assumptions are available in the pre-print paper. 1 We also modelled the impacts of the denicotinisation policy …
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  • Comparing two pandemics: A century apart

    … public health emergencies.   We recently published a study 1 that explored the similarities and differences between the … Zealand, while faring better than most countries ( Figure 1 ), still experienced major impacts on its health system, economy, and society. 1 Figure 1: Excess mortality in six OECD jurisdictions: …
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  • Parliamentary voting for smokefree over two decades: Implications for future progress

    … Introduction The current Government has  gone backwards 1 on achieving the Smokefree 2025 Goal by repealing the …   Ayes: 68 NZ Labour: 52;  Green Party: 9;  NZ First: 1 (minority); NZ National: 2 (minority); United Future: 2; … NZ First: 12;  ACT NZ: 8; United Future: 6; Independent: 1 (Awatere Huata). National’s Drs Paul Hutchison and Lynda …
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  • Throwing open the windows: The need for ventilation improvements as part of Covid-19 outbreak control in Aotearoa

    … in “poorly ventilated and/or crowded indoor settings” [1]. This is also the view of the US Centers for Disease … for preventing exposure to harmful agents (see Figure 1). While the figure was designed with hospitals in mind, it … the use of personal protective equipment (PPE). Figure 1.  Hierarchy of infection control and prevention measures …
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