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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … after a diagnosis of what was initially assumed to be just an acute illness. Although we lack large robust … Sydney, where 94 apparently recovered patients agreed to be involved and are undergoing tests every three months to … a neurological syndrome which was already known to be one of the late complications of infection with Zika virus …
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  • In the news: Hundreds of older NZers could be living in squalor - survey

    … told Radio New Zealand's Morning Report that there could be up to one to two thousand people living in severe domestic squalor and more work needs to be done to coordinate a multi-agency response to help these … survey . … In the news: Hundreds of older NZers could be living in squalor - survey …
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  • Why don’t we make rental housing safer?

    … that do exist, remain ineffectively enforced. The home can be a site of multiple hazards leading to the risk of falls, … in the home 1 . Lower-income households are more likely to be injured 2,3 , in part because of greater injury hazards in … New Zealand in 2022 6 , with Māori also more likely to be injured 7 . Injury in the home is common and is a risk …
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  • NZ’s long-running Campylobacter epidemic from poultry: Now with antibiotic resistance

    … the level of Campylobacter contaminated poultry would be one of many important steps that NZ could take. The large … Regulate lower contamination levels. A first step would be for the responsible agency (Ministry of Primary Industries … regulatory limit could potentially divert their product to be sold in a cooked form (which eliminates Campylobacter) or …
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  • Stubbing out democracy: no Government mandate for smokefree repeal

    … preceding adoption of the legislation. The measures to be repealed have strong public support. Views of community … measure with profound health consequences will be enacted with minimal parliamentary or expert scrutiny . … an open letter to the government stating that repeal would be irresponsible and immoral and should not proceed. …
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  • Keeping public health on the agenda for the new government

    … Summary The Public Health Expert Briefing will be highlighting evidence-informed public health solutions in … of the people of Aotearoa New Zealand should always be a top priority of any government. We must expect nothing … the Incoming Government. Over the next few months, we will be publishing occasional articles highlighting challenges and …
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  • Improving our pandemic preparedness: Counterfactuals and continuous quality improvement

    … asking New Zealanders to comment on how pandemics should be responded to in future. One approach is to think about … interventions that worked well and those that need to be improved or delivered more effectively in the next … meant all but the most urgent of non-COVID care had to be cancelled, including many cancer treatments. This created …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … the curve’. But since any eradication strategy might not be adopted or might fail, we still need a good understanding … are other ethical and philosophical analyses that could be made – the ‘fair innings’ argument for example which puts … five years of life lost per death (as they will mostly be in the elderly or those with chronic conditions), that is …
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  • Should you swap sugar for artificial sweetener? Maybe not if you’re a mouse, but what if you’re a human?

    … Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’ll be aware that sugar and its negative impact on dental caries, … to suggest a link. The problem is that null findings can be reinterpreted as ‘not disproving a link’. Accordingly, the … all eat whole natural foods, and our main beverage would be water. In such a world artificial sweeteners wouldn’t …
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  • Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?

    … websites for personal use, but use is  believed to be rare.    Oral tobacco products are thought to be less dangerous than smoked tobacco but are addictive and … above, traditional oral tobacco products are known to be addictive, increase cancer risk and cause oral health …
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