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  • The Covid-19 experience in Aotearoa New Zealand and other comparable high-income jurisdictions and implications for managing the next pandemic phase

    … and Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). These jurisdictions used a mixture of elimination and suppression strategies to achieve low infection and mortality rates until the arrival of the … from elimination in July 2021 with a reopening roadmap, after widespread vaccination, development of health services, …
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  • The changing COVID-19 situation in Taiwan – what can NZ learn from Taiwan’s latest outbreak?

    … effective response to COVID-19 during 2020. However, a recent surge of community cases in northern Taiwan from … outbreak), unlike NZ and Australia where strict (but often quite short) lockdowns in cities or states have … NZ, into Alert Level 2 at the end of June 2021, after a traveller visited from Sydney, Australia, who was …
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  • The Havelock North drinking water inquiry: A wake-up call to rebuild public health in New Zealand

    … in August 2016 caused by contaminated drinking water was a public health disaster. The second report of the Havelock … that sheep faeces were probably the original source of infection, with heavy rain inundating paddocks, allowing … of the former Public Health Commission (‘disestablished after a productive two years’[ 9 ]) and subsequent steady …
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  • Beautiful benchtops: How should we protect our workers?

    … decisive action —banning engineered stone, establishing a National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry, and … without lung transplantation. Chronic silicosis develops after more than 10 years of exposure, and in “accelerated” … support workers. 8 The focus of WorkSafe and ACC are too often a reactive response to acute injury, rather than a …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques

    … 2025” Action Plan was launched at Parliament on 2 August. A previous blog described its key features and a rationale … smoking prevalence, though the projected impacts are often modest (9). The problem is that these estimates of … for, the policy was communicated before implementation and after implementation as people experienced its benefits (15). …
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  • New modelling on the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in NZ associated with arriving travellers

    … risks are typically very low for travel from Australia (a “green zone” country with small occasional outbreaks from … to a median time to an outbreak of 1.5 years and after an average of 800 flights). Nevertheless, a pre-flight … in mid-2021) we also considered a much lower prevalence of infection with the pandemic virus in Australia – representing …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … Daley of the Grattan Institute, he argues that there is a need in Australia for a better articulation of the … it appears this is what most countries are pursuing – but often without clear articulation. Daley also offers a third option, Endgame B, to tracing and tracking every infection, but we think of this as part of the toolkit for …
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  • Progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Congratulations to the Government

    … the plan: permitting tobacco products to be sold in only a small number of stores; reducing the nicotine in tobacco … is open until 31 May (feedback can be submitted here ); after analysing the feedback, the Ministry of Health will … people younger than 18 years at that time or those born after 1 January 2004 would never be able to lawfully be sold …
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  • Why Aotearoa New Zealand needs a Public Health Communication Centre

    … Whaia te mātauranga hei oranga mō koutou   —  Seek after learning for the sake of your well-being   Kia ora! … as poverty and environmental degradation. It will play a key role in highlighting and explaining new evidence and … of novel research is made clear, findings from new studies–often funded by the NZ taxpayer–are at risk of sinking into …
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  • Pandemic terminology: getting it right matters for effective risk communication and management

    … Compared with other OECD countries NZ is a stand-out success story by ending community transmission of … Border restriction/closure/opening: These terms are often used very loosely in the NZ context. NZ’s borders are … disease transmission during the incubation period if infection should occur.” [8] Second wave: The world is still …
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Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)