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  • Local elections and public health: A critical connection

    … Summary Local and regional councils in Aotearoa New Zealand play a vital … and wasting the country an estimated $122 million a year. 1 These high leakage levels are a hazard to health and puts … financially separate water organisations to be run solely or jointly with other councils. A key consideration should be …
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  • Getting the Marketing Mix Right: A Commentary on NZ’s Forthcoming Vaping Regulations

    … legislation that extends existing regulation of tobacco and herbal smoking products to vaping products (or electronic nicotine delivery systems [ENDS] and heated … concerns that young people are experimenting with ENDS, 1 2 attracted by the novel flavours, 3-5 expressive clouds, 6 …
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  • Severe domestic squalor in Aotearoa New Zealand: A preliminary survey

    … Summary A preliminary survey of local Age Concerns and district and city councils (Territorial Authorities or TAs) suggests that people living in severe domestic … consider the house to be unsuitable for human occupation. 1  An extreme example is where “the home is cluttered with …
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  • Five lessons for Aotearoa NZ from the current COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales

    … Wales Government is struggling to control the outbreak and the grim situation holds a number of lessons for NZ. On … on 16 June with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing ( 1, 2 ). A household contact subsequently tested positive ( 3 … take additional months of restrictions before elimination, or a high level of suppression, is achieved again in NSW. …
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  • Being forced to leave your rental home can harm health

    … Eviction, or a forced move from rental housing, is a common experience … found that eviction can harm health through causing stress and grief, and precipitating a move into homeless or to a risky housing …
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  • Expansion of “green zones” may provide a chance for the global eradication of COVID-19

    … at the global level). Here we consider the advantages and the challenges, but ultimately suggest consideration of … with large land borders such as China and Vietnam [1]. Secondly, effective vaccines were deployed more rapidly … the risks of more dangerous variants emerging in humans or from animal reservoirs. The costs of COVID-19 eradication …
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  • Carcinogen exposure in Aotearoa workplaces is unacceptably high

    … which New Zealanders experience cancer-causing substances and other exposures in their workplace. The survey, released … a third of hospitalisations due to work-related disease. 1 A relevant caveat is that these figures are largely based … to humans; Group 2B : possibly carcinogenic to humans; or Group 3 : not classifiable. Not only do we need to have …
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  • Regulation of alcohol marketing is needed to meet health, wellbeing and equity goals

    … the report on its review of their Code for Advertising and Promotion of Alcohol. The ASA is an industry body which … being current drinkers, and 20% being hazardous drinkers. 1 The harm that results is social as well as physical and is … exposure to marketing hinders efforts to reduce drinking or to remain sober. In 2015/16 one in four NZ drinkers …
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  • A public health perspective on taxing harmful products

    … for tax reform that will potentially improve health and lower health costs, reduce health inequalities and … carbon pricing mechanism has been widely criticised [1-4], and compares poorly to a well-designed carbon tax. Yet … costs on society that are not covered in the sales price or by the seller of the product. For example, alcohol imposes …
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  • How taking an evidence-informed approach can be used to prioritise interventions: The example of cardiovascular disease

    … decisions about which health priorities to focus on, and how to achieve maximum health gains. In this Briefing we … and disability combined in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). 1 Stroke is ranked fifth. Both ischaemic heart disease and … of the broader category of cardiovascular disease, or CVD. Each year CVD is estimated to cause nearly 12,000 …
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Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)