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  • Children and young people and COVID-19: The urgent need for improved guidance in NZ

    … mask use for secondary-age children at Alert Levels 2 and 3 and encouraging primary-age children to make and use masks. … risk of child-to-child and child-to-adult transmission. 3 This perception of low risk has shaped a number of … secondary schools and school buses at Alert Levels 2 and 3 (and also if variants such as 2.5 are created). More …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: Are they worth investing in?

    … based on the original Cabinet papers for the programme. 2,3 Preliminary assessments of Value for Investment for Ka Ora, … ranges from $1,000 (1 child in primary school) to $5000 (3 children in secondary school) and qualitative evidence … children in some school terms amounting to about 3 days/year. 10 Several New Zealand cross-sectional studies …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … 1010 participants) and October 2020-February 2021 (wave 3 [W3], 1266 participants). Data collection for the first two … Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) whilst the wave 3 survey was completed online. We present findings from the … are overly controlling, intrusive and paternalistic. 3 According to this reasoning, many adults who smoke enjoy …
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  • Will the Health Star Rating labels improve people’s diets?

    … comment. While four studies were conducted in Australia (3) and NZ (1) , none of these tell us if the HSR is a more … poor predictor of ability to use nutrition information (3-6). Similarly, intentions are poor predictors; 90% of … or NZ. Four studies were completed during development (3 in Australia, 1 in NZ), but none tested the actual format …
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  • New proposals to limit youth vaping from Labour: Do they go far enough?

    … to vape daily despite never smoking increasing from 3.1% in 2021 to 4.3% in 2022” [our emphasis]. This description, which assumes … a financial burden, and disrupted whānau relationships. 3 Many young people who experiment with smoking do not …
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  • Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study

    … A just published modelling study by the BODE 3 Team has reported that “home safety assessment and … injurious falls among community-dwelling older people (3). It usually involves a two-stage intervention consisting … for preventing injurious falls (6). What the new BODE 3 Study found The study used a Markov macro-simulation model …
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  • A new review on dietary fats: Putting its findings in context

    … fats – with the latter ideally being long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (as found in fish, flax seed and nuts). The … of saturated fat, monounsaturated fat, and both omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fats. At first glance you might … have already suggested a protective effect of omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (measured as intake …
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  • Aotearoa’s first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza: Heightened awareness and surveillance essential for early detection

    … from the globally circulating HPAI H5N1 subclade 2.3.4.4b, which, to date, has never been detected in New … adapt, acquiring mutations that result in severe disease. 3 The detection of this highly pathogenic strain, subtype … distinct from the globally spreading HPAI H5N1 subclade 2.3.4.4b. With its wide host range, this lineage of HPAI H5N1 …
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  • Five Potential Enhancements of Covid-19 Outbreak Control in Aotearoa NZ

    … events (eg, bars, night clubs, gyms and churches). 3) Reduce the risk of virus transmission by expanding mask … mask use requirements for the Alert Level 4 situation [3]. But this policy does not go far enough and it should … sense to delay the roll-out for other people in Groups 3 and 4, until the demand from essential workers is …
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  • Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis

    … implementing widely recommended preventive policies (3, 4) to match the magnitude of the burden that unhealthy … implementation is much worse for the policy indicators (2/3 of indicators rated as having ‘low’ or ‘very little if any’ … than for the infrastructure support indicators (1/3 of indicators rated as having ‘low’ or ‘very little if any’ …
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