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  • The Government’s transport plans work against our health

    … 2024-34 neither supports the health and wellbeing of the population nor addresses the transport challenges of the 21st century. The current transport system causes … system does not support New Zealanders to lead healthy and sustainable lives, then it cannot “effectively underpin NZs …
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  • Urgent measures needed to allow the safe re-opening of Auckland schools

    … In this blog we describe the range of urgent measures that are needed to facilitate a safe return to schools in Auckland and other regions of the country where there is ongoing community transmission of COVID-19. These include very high vaccination coverage of …
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  • Testing for COVID-19 in NZ to achieve the elimination goal

    … testing to both identify cases in the community as part of the COVID-19 elimination strategy, and to confirm when the … continue testing symptomatic people, with the sensitivity of case detection expanded by steadily broadening the case … to assess the elimination goal could involve testing of higher-risk exposed groups, potentially using pooled …
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  • Dropping the ball on measles? Aotearoa must close an ‘immunity gap’ to avoid a measles epidemic

    … Summary The number of children susceptible to measles in Aotearoa New Zealand … those aged 15 months to 9 years without documented receipt of two doses of MMR vaccine. Priority should be given to existing …
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  • The case for a NZ-Australia Pandemic Cooperation Agreement

    … on pandemic cooperation could be the starting point of such a regional approach. Potential benefits include: … emerging disease surveillance and diagnostic test development Early detection of emerging pandemics enables a … (e.g., WHO recommendations), both nations could face criticism or reputation loss from the international community …
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  • Running into Trouble: COVID-19 in Japan during the Tokyo Olympics

    … Here we consider the many public health implications of the decision to hold the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the middle of a global pandemic. These impacts include direct effects on … coronavirus contact tracing app on 19 June 2020. 13 The development of centralised contact tracing methods progressed …
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  • Putin and the Bomb: Why New Zealand national risk assessments should include planning for the potential impacts of nuclear winter

    … blog we briefly review the literature on the probability of nuclear war and what various models estimate to be the … Agricultural adaptation including winter hardy crops Development of alternative resilient food systems which do … consistent with the recent UN framework for ‘risk informed sustainable development’ (UNDRR, 2021). The Royal Society of …
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  • Breaking the inequity loop

    … ourselves.  That means more Māori across all aspects of health: not just doctors, nurses and other clinical … health policy experts, and even politicians. The all-of-population approach has failed for more than a century to … in the Second World War under Māori leadership; 28 the development of Kohanga Reo and Kura Kaupapa in the 1970’s and …
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  • Regulation of alcohol marketing is needed to meet health, wellbeing and equity goals

    … Authority (ASA) has just released the report on its review of their Code for Advertising and Promotion of Alcohol. The ASA is an industry body which develops the … reviews. Three major directions are indicated: 1. Development of an alcohol sponsorship replacement model, …
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  • Aotearoa’s government-funded school lunches failing nutrition standards

    … Lunch Collective (SLC), the major provider supplying 51% of students in Ka Ora, Ka Ako | Healthy School Lunches … international benchmarks   for energy, and the Ministry of Education’s Nutrition Standards for Ka Ora, Ka Ako.   The … energy expected for a school lunch and less than a fifth of the daily energy requirements for growing teens. Despite …
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