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  • Expansion of “green zones” may provide a chance for the global eradication of COVID-19

    … safe and highly effective vaccines for COVID-19 to build on successes of PHSMs, eradiation has become a reasonable … and running COVID-19 vaccination campaigns (to its credit NZ has already helped fund COVAX). As we have … people coming from overseas return on the basis of checks under customs, biosecurity and health law. Additionally …
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  • Media release: Aotearoa New Zealand is flying blind on misinformation

    … the past year. "Organisations that tracked and reported on online content have recently closed, and progress on new social media regulations has stalled," he says.  Dr … of investment is needed to listen to what is being shared on public, online platforms and to identify key trends or …
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  • The case for tobacco supply restrictions

    … the majority of consumers want. Marketing is predicated on largely common-sense principles; among these, … important.  Most of us will have purchased products on impulse when grocery shopping, even when we have taken … non-smokers supported not allowing tobacco sales within 500 metres of a school. [1]   As the graph below shows, …
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  • NZ’s long-running Campylobacter epidemic from poultry: Now with antibiotic resistance

    … these problems and explore potential solutions: (i) build on the past NZ success of regulating lower contamination … meat [ 1 ]. In addition, recently presented research on AMR has found that a tetracycline and fluoroquinolone … infection a year in NZ. This estimate is based on 6776 notified cases in the last calendar year [ 4 ], a …
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  • Progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Congratulations to the Government

    … We congratulate the NZ Government on its proposed Action Plan for the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 … includes many ideas for new interventions; we focus on three of these, outlining their rationale and evidence … undermines smokefree initiatives. For example, quitters report that tobacco’s ubiquity triggers relapse and can …
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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … response to this 2009 pandemic ( reviewed here in the NZ Medical Journal ) – albeit a relatively mild pandemic … of adults with oseltamivir had no significant effect on hospitalisations and zanamivir hospitalisation data were … have been included in the last two issues of the British Medical Journal – and might continue for some time yet. There …
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  • Shifting all isolation/quarantine facilities to a single air force base: The need for a critical analysis

    … worker in August was infected from a returnee, based on genetic sequencing of the virus [2]. As the suspected mode … (some of which are high-end) is estimated to be almost $ 500 million until the end of the year for the 32 hotel … facilities at Ōhakea is likely to be far less than the $500 million expected for hotel-based facilities by the end of …
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  • Strengthening Omicron mitigation strategies in Early Childhood Education settings

    … have the highest rates of hospitalisation among people under the age of 18 years, although hospitalisations among … Covid-19 are uncommon (1 to 2% of infected young persons under the age of 20 years). 1 With Omicron infection, … olds attended ECE. However, the pandemic has had an impact on attendance and in 2021 there was a slight drop in these …
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  • Smokefree cars – an important step towards protecting children from the hazards of smoking

    … On November 28 new legislation to protect children from … car law, and the landmark Māori Affairs Select Committee report recommended this measure in 2010. 5 Studies have shown … strong (around 90% or more) support for a ban on smoking in cars among children and adults (including …
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  • How taking an evidence-informed approach can be used to prioritise interventions: The example of cardiovascular disease

    … decisions about which health priorities to focus on, and how to achieve maximum health gains. In this Briefing … each intervention. More detail can be accessed by clicking on individ ual cells in the table.  * For further details see … index (BMI) 1940 (1130 to 2850) 16.3   40,100 (25,500 to 56,300) 21.9 Tobacco (including secondhand smoke***) …
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