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  • Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”

    … virus, or are close to such a definition (28 days without community transmission of cases where the source is unknown). … exploited. Also, to be clear, we already had low-level community transmission – so outbreaks were going to happen. … this occurred in Victoria. Given we still had low level community transmission, it was not as devastating as it would …
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  • The alarms are flashing red: Five reasons to upgrade our Alert Level system before the next Covid-positive traveller visits a major city

    … to Australia and there were no detected cases in the community in Wellington. Table 1 shows what an expanded Alert … have been justified to generate meaningful prevention of community transmission while contacts were being tested and … measures at every level. Examples include resources for community food sovereignty (Māra Kai/community food gardens) …
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  • Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status

    … a number of jurisdictions appear to have eliminated community transmission of the virus (eg, China, Taiwan, Fiji … masks. *** We suggest Level 1 is defined as no evidence of community transmission in NZ for at least 28 days (in the … our suggested revised Alert Levels. There would also be community consultation, potentially assisted by surveys and …
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  • COVID-19 in Aotearoa: what does public health do now?

    … has been the intensive efforts of the public health community – providing policy advice on which control measures … and contacts to a population health approach focused on community health need? Public health services still have an … means devolving more public health power and resources to community providers who can deliver an effective response. In …
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  • Covid-19 Hospitalisations Now Peaking in Aotearoa NZ – But Key Covid-19 Control Measures Still Need to be Maintained

    … numbers massively under-represent true infections in the community since some people have no symptoms, some have … different hospital admission practices (relatively to community care for Covid cases) but it may also reflect …
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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … (7 November 2021), the 7-day average number of new community cases per day was 138 in Auckland, and 7.0 for areas outside Auckland with known Covid-19 community transmission (Northland and Waikato), making … would be better served by having those rooms available for community cases, when their homes are not suitable for home …
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  • Protecting children and young people from unethical junk food marketing: Upgrading the advertising codes

    … state that the aim of their sponsorship, fundraising and community outreach initiatives is to give back to their … definition ) on any media platform. No branded sponsorship/community outreach should be allowed in the following … children or the whole family, school events, and all other community and cultural initiatives involving children. …
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  • Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?

    … opinion, HTV is the international leader in large-scale, community-based, health promotion approaches to obesity … . Its proof of principle came from several long-term community initiatives which I led in the 2000s in and around … model, then, yes, it can definitely work. Will this community-based approach, by itself, be enough to bring …
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  • A Statue of Merit: Dr Margaret Cruickshank and the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … to care for her patients. When the pandemic struck her community, Dr Cruickshank apparently “worked night and day, … in this country. She seemed to have been much loved by the community of Waimate, as when she subsequently left for the … particular citizens who made great contributions to their community. Enhancing the educational value of such memorials …
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  • COVID-19 and Māori health – when equity is more than a word

    … to be exposed to COVID-19 in the event of established community transmission. Evidence shows that transmission of … evidence to date from China has highlighted that, during community transmission, 78–85% of COVID-19 cases related to … the COVID-19 pandemic and the impacts on our whānau and community that have been exacerbated by this pandemic. Māori …
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