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  • The need for an expanded national smokefree law – just got more critical

    … judge was that this Calculator was inconsistent with the definition of an “open area” under the Smoke-free … Act has a contradiction between its purpose and the definition of “internal areas”. The purpose of the section of … where smoking can and can’t be permitted – so they can report when the law is being breached. It was a design fault …
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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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  • ACC turns 50: A more modern approach to injury prevention needed

    … injury. The blueprint for this scheme was the Woodhouse Report of 1967 which had set out clear principles, addressing … through work, recreation, and volunteer efforts, it’s only fair that the community takes responsibility for supporting … strategies have advanced a long way since the Woodhouse Report. The Report’s principle of ‘community responsibility’ …
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  • Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?

    … ( see here ). But this tool can help with research – as we report in a just published review in the journal “Tobacco … work yet to be published) and are currently exploring its value in studying shade provision in childrens’ playgrounds. …
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  • Meat, health, hospitals, and sustainability*

    … This was summarised in the recent Ministry of Health report Sustainability and the health sector [1], championed … to hear Dietitians NZ, in their response, emphasising the value of prevention, particularly with an eye to reducing … improved health and environmental benefits” [6]. A special report on climate and land by the Intergovernmental Panel on …
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  • Reducing waiting times for cataract surgery is good value-for-money for falls prevention

    … modelling has shown that these interventions are also good value for money. However, there is also evidence that … This suggests that this intervention is very good value-for-money for the NZ health system. Targeting expedited … . … Reducing waiting times for cataract surgery is good value-for-money for falls prevention …
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  • NZ should prepare for a potentially severe global coronavirus pandemic

    … this major health and economic threat. Now is the time for maximum proactivity. There is much we still don’t know about … Health Organization met and concluded that the pandemic definition based on spread was appropriate, but that it was …
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  • A Statue of Merit: Dr Margaret Cruickshank and the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … is an important statue This statue seems to us to be of value for several reasons. Firstly, New Zealand needs … Finally, we also consider that this statue has aesthetic value and adds cultural richness to the town of Waimate. The … to their community. Enhancing the educational value of such memorials Very few statutes or memorials about …
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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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  • Faster mortality decline – slower population ageing. How could this be?

    … eligibility for New Zealand Super, and is widely used as a definition of old age (1). Elsewhere, old age starts earlier. For instance, in its World Ageing Report , the United Nations treats 60 years as the beginning … of the population will be “old”, using the conventional definition (65 years+) and a prospective measure (less than …
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