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  • Urgent action needed to help eliminate cervical cancer in Aotearoa

    … cervix can access these three things, cervical cancer will be eliminated in NZ within the lifetime of today’s children.  … WHO set three targets that countries must meet by 2030 to be on the path to eliminate cervical cancer.  The WHO targets … responded saying he has asked for advice about what would be required to make this change.  NZ trails behind Australia …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand's fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care

    … Covid-19 infection starting in early February, which can be reasonably described as our fourth wave since Covid-19 … is coinciding with a rise of the XBB subvariant which may be a major contributing factor. This subvariant has been … in vaccine effectiveness.    There are multiple reasons to be concerned about any increase in Covid-19 infections: …
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  • Targeting a new generation – time for a greater focus on smoking uptake prevention?

    … which prompt and motivate quitting among all smokers, will be required. 8,9 Such measures could act synergistically with … prevalence may have plateaued since 2015, and may even be starting to increase. 14 Figure 1 – Daily smoking … barriers to quitting, 24 many of these young people may be unable to quit and will become long-term smokers. By …
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  • Faster mortality decline – slower population ageing. How could this be?

    … a good thing? Many worry that we face a future that will be overwhelmed by old people. They ask: will we be weighed down by an aged population, threatened by a … instead of a fixed chronological age, being old should be defined by a dynamic, prospective measure, such as …
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  • Tighter controls on vape marketing due, but gaps remain

    … increases in vaping among young people , will no longer be permitted. However, recent media reports suggest new … may circumvent this measure, and careful monitoring will be required to identify emerging loopholes. Online vape … Nor will specialist vape retailers (or their websites) be able to give away free products, offer product discounts, …
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  • High levels of CO2 found in small study of early childhood centres: Improving ventilation in the time of COVID-19

    … Summary Good ventilation is considered to be an important way to reduce the transmission of respiratory … the study. All six centres confirmed they were willing to be involved in the study. CO 2 levels in both activity rooms … rooms with high CO 2 levels did not have windows able to be opened but all the rest of the rooms either had windows or …
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  • Breaking the inequity loop

    … meaning that all activities by Māori should be vetted and subject to Crown veto. Resourcing for the … snapshot provides a case study from which key lessons can be drawn and applied to the current state of Māori population … committee regarding whether this organisation should be able to commission its own programmes of work – in other …
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  • A 100 years ago today – the likely first NZ death from the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … due to this new pandemic virus. Nevertheless, we can’t be absolutely sure that it was the pandemic virus for this … days and weeks. Crowded cabin accommodation seemed to be one of the risk factors for death in this historical study … having a pre-existing chronic disease was found to be one of several risk factors for dying in the pandemic [7]. …
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  • Public health response to report on potential risk of nitrate from drinking water

    … nitrosation. As mentioned, a key research question yet to be answered is  what level and frequency of antioxidant … meals likely have very few antioxidants and there would be differential consumption patterns across the population. … cancer [12], in part via genetic damage that can be linked specifically to nitrosation [14]. The second major …
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  • ACC turns 50: A more modern approach to injury prevention needed

    … behaviour rather than systemic factors. Prevention would be much more effective if it also addressed structural … prevention strategies. That shift in direction would be a worthy advance to celebrate 50 years of serving Aotearoa … insurer, then its engagement with the government will be limited. It will not advocate for constraints on the sale …
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