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  • Queenstown outbreak highlights future challenges for clean drinking water

    … land use, regulation, and governance. It is these factors in combination that determine whether water from our taps is … outbreak, they have confirmed the drinking water supply in Queenstown is vulnerable because it lacks a protozoa … clarity and planning among various agencies involved in water quality. Enhancing both treatment and source water …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … values. Recognising this will help us make good decisions in difficult situations so that, for example, the need to … not conflict with fairness, respect, and neighbourliness.  In Aotearoa/NZ, Getting Through Together already provides a … which can be used to guide a wide range of responses. In response to Wilson and Baker’s timely piece on preparing …
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  • Health-related food taxes and subsidies: A critique of opposition arguments

    … lack of efficacy, and incursion on personal freedoms. In this blog, we briefly analyse 8 common arguments raised in opposition to such policies, and consider their basis … on the best available NZ and international evidence.   In recent weeks, we have been involved in publications that …
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  • Prevention and treatment of mental disorders will help reduce dementia

    … also at higher risk.  Mental health challenges are rising in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), yet unmet need for services has … the need for early, sustained investment in mental health. This means a life course approach and … of people with dementia is projected to double from 83,000 in 2025 to 167,000 by the year 2050. 1   In the absence of a …
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  • When can COVID-19 be Declared Eliminated from NZ? New Modelling Study

    … This blog details a recent modelling study we conducted. In it we estimated that it would take between 27 and 33 days … for there to be a 95% probability of epidemic extinction in NZ (at around current testing levels). For a 99% … for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic virus that causes COVID-19. 1 In Australia, such a goal has been discussed as a potential …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 2)

    … Professor Diana Sarfati on breast cancer screening. In Part 1 t hey looked at the contested research around breast cancer screening. In today’s Part 2 they explore the implications for New … controlled trials (RCTs), about whether improvements in treatment have had an impact on screening effectiveness …
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  • The need for an updated strategic approach to Covid-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … into an unclear strategic approach to Covid-19 control. In this blog we outline one potential way forward: a regional … for Covid-19 control. Also, the Government had released (in August 2021) a fairly clear approach to Reconnecting New … enter the country. The current Delta variant outbreak in Auckland (with spread into parts of the Waikato and …
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  • Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact

    … additional four years of tax increases smoking prevalence in 2020 will be 21.4% for Māori and to 8.9% for non-Māori – … our modelling necessarily uses responsiveness to tax seen in the past. Thus the further tax increases will help us get … Four more years of 10% tax increases will see the average price for a pack of cigarettes more than double in …
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  • Covid recovery or sustainable transformation?

    … difference between Covid and climate change responses is in timescales. Covid will require a largely short-term … pressure is intensifying for action to support recovery in business activity and jobs . But what sort of recovery? … easy to assume that because of the speed of the lockdown in some countries, and the visible environmental co-benefits …
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  • What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes and public health

    … outcomes from Mexico appear to show positive reductions in SSB consumption. SSBs are defined as any beverage that … for many of the highest rates of obesity and diabetes in the world. The Secretariat of the Pacific Community policy … variables that can affect purchases); there was a 6% average decline in purchases compared to pre-tax trends, …
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