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  • Media release: Councils encouraged to curb alcohol availability in new policy environment

    … alcohol availability. The impact will now depend more on councils’ willingness to back their communities and the … $9.1 billion annually, with disproportionate effects on Māori, who are twice as likely to die from alcohol-related … In the absence of meaningful national restrictions on alcohol availability, LAPs provide the only opportunity to …
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  • Long Covid Update – a threat that continues to demand a strong response

    … with Covid-19 has provided substantial evolving evidence on Long Covid (LC), which we review here to assess risk and … 2 Updating a Briefing from almost a year ago , 3 we focus on recent evidence. An Appendix (available as a downloadable … 2022; they have not been reactivated or replaced.  The Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid-19, 87 …
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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … [2]. The method used by the GHSI is intentionally based on published and publicly available data sources, thereby … appropriate financing [1]. The main finding of the GHSI Report is that collectively international preparedness is … of greater concern as they indicate a long-term pattern of under-investment. NZ is one of the only high-income countries …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … action plans (New Zealand’s included) focused solely on influenza. A coronavirus pandemic simply wasn’t foreseen … people. This table-top exercise took place in New York on 18 October 2019, when plausibly the first cases of … cases were being discussed with alarm by experts on the ProMED bulletin board. None of this fits the …
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  • Science-informed policy: considerations in support of judicious, circumspect changes to Aotearoa/NZ alert levels during the COVID-19 pandemic

    … nature of the virus, that makes lifting restrictions on physical distancing and social contacts most problematic. … occurs particularly among herpes viruses but is currently under investigation as a possible explanation for the … designed to discredit science and the effectiveness of medical practice 48 . It is not clear whether, as a society, …
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  • Media release: Call to action over exposure to cancer-causing agents at work

    … workplaces is unacceptably high . Dr Eng says the data on exposure to work-related carcinogens has been lacking … to respirable crystalline silica have rightly been focused on the engineered stone-benchtop industry, the survey … And these recommendations aren’t new. They have fallen on deaf ears for decades,” says Dr Eng. She says the time is …
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  • Expanding Ka Ora, Ka Ako is ‘bread and butter’ action to alleviate the cost-of-healthy-food crisis

    … changes to reverse the huge impacts of social inequities on population health. Ka Ora, Ka Ako – A powerful policy … to make ends meet. An obvious action, which is sitting on the Minister of Education's desk right now, is to at least … to at least double Ka Ora, Ka Ako. We based the call on strong community support , as well as emerging evidence of …
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  • Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls

    … family planning and student and youth health clinics), report a declining number of first presentations for genital … The model included the effect of the vaccination on cervical cancer, pre-cancer (CIN I to III), genital warts, … vaccination. Our examination of informational materials on HPV vaccination, makes us suspect that greater emphasis …
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  • (Un)licensed to kill: do we need to regulate how tobacco is sold?

    … inform tobacco supply policies (both published in the NZ Medical Journal, 1 April 2016). This blog overviews the … as deadly and addictive as tobacco, which causes death on a scale unprecedented for a consumer product, can be sold … tobacco if they are located in residential zones; within 500 feet of “youth-populated areas” (schools, childcare …
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  • Daily aspirin for preventing cancer and heart disease – where to from here in NZ?

    … level evidence and for stomach cancer it is based largely on cohort studies. The evidence for other cancers is weaker … of aspirin taken for 10 years starting at age 55 years on deaths over the next 20 years (in 100 average-risk men – … as noted above). For Pharmac to consider supporting work on the inclusion of aspirin in some types of polypills for …
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