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  • What does the 2019/20 NZ Health Survey tell us about progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa?

    … peoples. The Government urgently needs to introduce a comprehensive action plan, including measures to reduce the … smoking, e-cigarette (EC) use and related measures among a representative sample of NZ adults aged > 15 years in … was 13.4% for current smoking (535,000 smokers). This is a reduction in prevalence of just under 1% and around …
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  • Calculating cardiovascular risk with online calculators – scope for improvement?

    … individual risk of future cardiovascular events with a large number of online calculators – including a NZ-specific calculator that has been available for some … and to prevent clotting (e.g., via low-dose aspirin). A large number of online CVD risk calculators currently exist …
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  • New Zealanders strongly support policies to curb alcohol harm – will government listen?

    … wellbeing of the consumer, their families, and society as a whole, making it Aotearoa New Zealand’s most harmful drug. … perpetuates this, particularly for Māori who experience a disproportionate amount of harm.   New independent public … build on previous years’ research and give the government a strong mandate for action to put health, safety and equity …
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  • Reducing the risk of Covid-19 transmission through the use of air purifiers

    … carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) levels, which are used as a proxy measurement for ventilation, should stay below 800 … each pass of air through the unit. Air purifier adverts often give a clean air delivery rate (CADR). 4 This is the … This type of system is called an upper room UV and are often used within hospitals. If properly installed, these …
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  • Lessons From history: Helping New Zealand prepare for future influenza pandemics

    … on this NZ troopship (the Tahiti) may have contributed to a particularly severe outbreak during the 1918 influenza … at a border or area boundary) to prevent the spread of infection into an area. Such an attempt failed in 1918 in the … may be possible to institute a range of control measures after wave one of an influenza pandemic. These include …
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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … health emergencies, but that countries must also have a robust health system, be compliant with international … elimination status and has resulted in NZ exporting this infection to vulnerable Pacific Island nations. These public … [8], are critical and should be undertaken much more often. Indeed, there is an opportunity for the New Zealand …
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  • Modelling tobacco tax – implications of BODE3 paper just out, and personal reflections on the research journey

    … Yesterday we published a paper in PLoS Medicine that estimates the health gains, … that can be done, there is still considerable uncertainty. After-all, we are predicting the future! But such modelling … out to the future for both Māori and non-Māori, before and after the tax intervention. Future mortality rates fall …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … tobacco control activities and implementation of a major new ‘endgame’ strategy (such as denicotinisation). This package, especially a new endgame strategy, faces political and implementation … (even at the 20% annual increase level (9)) – see Appendix A and this previous blog post . Similarly, a gradual …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … that can shed light on policy-relevant questions.  A half or more of Māori:European/Other inequalities in … in mortality between Māori and European/Other by a quarter. It is hard to think of another intervention that … causal association of exposure X with outcome Y?” – that a massive methodological push has been made internationally …
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  • A National risks assessment should include pandemics and other global catastrophes

    … process could be further advanced. In particular there is a need to: (i) improve future iterations of the public survey … (eg, the next one in February/March 2023); (ii) signal a move towards an integrated and comprehensive National Risks … reports can become politicised , so it is good to see that a public survey and feedback on the proposed theme of the …
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