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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … impact on the NZ hospital system (Figure 23.1 in its NZ report). This graphic shows the hospital system moving into … from February to April (Figure 24.1 in IHME’s NZ report). In the comparison countries in the same region, this … in NZ might over-estimate true capacity (given a recent report on the very constrained ICU capacity in NZ at …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … delayed decreases in alcohol-attributable mortality . The Report prepared by the NZ Ministry of Justice (that Minister … and $624 million over ten years, respectively). But the report also recommended against a minimum price of alcohol … Lancet paper) and challenging implementation issues. The Report suggested waiting to see the evaluations from …
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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022-23 NZ Health Survey

    … . About the New Zealand Health Survey The NZHS is an annual nationally representative population survey. It has … been collected in each survey since 2015/16 except in the 2016/17 survey.   Full details of the methods and a methodology report are available on the Ministry of Health website. Data …
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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … appropriate financing [1]. The main finding of the GHSI Report is that collectively international preparedness is … more should be done to prevent and mitigate. In August 2016 Havelock North suffered the world’s worst ever … to the Ebola outbreak of 2014–16, concluded in their 2019 Annual Report that we live in ‘A World at Risk’ and urged …
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  • Likely rise in invasive strep infections in NZ requires a strategy

    … 10 the most affected group. In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) a 2016 report noted that iGAS infections had increased over the … per 100 000 people in 2002 10 to  9 per 100 000 in 2016. 11 The direct healthcare-associated costs of …
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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … a mental health crisis. The 2024 World Happiness report (WHR24) found a steep decline in the mental wellbeing … health problem across the world. The 2024 World Happiness report (WHR24) has revealed a steep drop in the mental … (6%) and high (11%). 5 Additionally, rangatahi Māori report higher rates of depressive symptoms - for example, 38% …
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  • Health co-benefits need to be adequately considered in the Climate Change Commission’s final advice

    … the Government has been tabled in Parliament. This final report further acknowledged the potential health co-benefits … 14 (as well as causing hospitalisations and deaths) . A report prepared by the Law and Economics Consulting Group on …
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  • What we would like to see on the Ministry of Health’s website to better inform progress on COVID-19 elimination

    … travel variable blank (13) have a similar distribution of report dates to those with the overseas travel variable as … Furthermore, the 11% with a duration between arrival and report date of greater than 14 days is an underestimate of … that have been reported, the duration between arrival and report date has ranged from 2 to 6 days. The current border …
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  • Tax reform pros & cons: A brief look from a Public Health perspective

    … leaders in tobacco tax policy – with a recent series of annual increases ( see this blog ). Historically, tax was … New Zealand Government: Government Response to the Report of the Māori Affairs Committee on its Inquiry into the … tax on sugar sweetened beverages: observational study. BMJ 2016, 352:h6704. The Economist: Stopping slurping: Taxes on …
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  • Improving our pandemic preparedness: Counterfactuals and continuous quality improvement

    … from the pandemic. Most were covered by the Phase one report so work to implement improvements can begin … to start implementing the recommendations of the Phase one report now, and strengthen our essential public health … experience Excerpts from the British Medical Association’s report  COVID-19: Impact of the pandemic on healthcare …
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