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  • The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project

    … of illicit tobacco products. Introduction and methods The NZ Government recently published a Discussion Document … ITC New Zealand study (referred to internationally as ITC NZ and in NZ as EASE) is part of a 29-country international …
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  • Food poverty for NZ teens creating an achievement lag of up to four years

    … Achievement (PISA) 2022 results show Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) students’ maths, science and reading proficiency levels … the PISA study included measures of food poverty, with NZ ranking second worst in the OECD for number of students … for community food resiliency initiatives). Author details Dr Pippa McKelvie Sebileau , Te Kura i Awarua, Eastern …
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  • Lessons From history: Helping New Zealand prepare for future influenza pandemics

    … Crowding on this NZ troopship (the Tahiti) may have contributed to a … commenced in 2009, was fortunately much less serious ( NZ experience with it has been reviewed elsewhere ). Future … involved in a range of studies on the 1918 pandemic and NZ and most recently the experience of NZ military forces …
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  • Resource: Promoting respiratory infection safety in the workplace - A protocol

    … Assoc Prof Amanda Kvalsvig ( amanda.kvalsvig@otago.ac.nz ).   Further reading from PHCC: World Ventil8 Day – How do … ventilation in the time of COVID-19 Ventilation in NZ schools during the Omicron wave – results from a … Poor ventilation in public transport settings in Aotearoa NZ: New data for buses and trains You can download the …
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  • Rising congenital syphilis in Aotearoa New Zealand needs a strong response

    … resurgence of syphilis is affecting Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). It is having inequitable impacts amongst Māori and … population also needs to be addressed. Author details Dr  Emma Best  - Paediatric Infectious Diseases specialist, … Child and Youth Health The University of Auckland  Dr Danny de Lore - Paediatrician Rata Hauora Tamariki,  Mātai …
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  • What public health lessons can NZ still learn from the United States?

    … governments provide a wealth of potential lessons that NZ could learn from. In this blog we briefly consider some of … public health areas. Here we look at some of these that NZ could potentially consider learning from in some form. … Various US jurisdictions seem to be more advanced than NZ in terms of: Adopting soft drink taxes which are now in …
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  • “Action for Healthy Waterways”: some big ticket actions that the Government has neglected

    … The NZ Ministry for the Environment has produced a valuable … health and cultural impacts for people in Aotearoa/NZ [1]. Fortunately, the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) … good ideas around protecting and improving the health of NZ’s waterways. In particular, the overarching concept of Te …
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  • Junk food and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Likely to produce numerous benefits in NZ

    … on unhealthy foods and beverages in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) will lead to health gains, health system cost-savings, … and GHG emissions as if they had been implemented in NZ. Table 1 . Details of tax packages selected for inclusion What level of benefits does the new NZ modelling show? Our recent modelling work indicated that …
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  • Likely rise in invasive strep infections in NZ requires a strategy

    … of 10 the most affected group. In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) a 2016 report noted that iGAS infections had increased … of iGAS cases and their household contacts. Author details Dr Julie Bennett , Assoc Prof Amanda Kvalsvig and Prof … Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland. Dr Johanna Birrell is with the Department of Medicine, …
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  • Decades old nutrition data leave NZ in the dark – updated nutrition survey needed

    … Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) faces a critical information gap on what New Zealanders … survey dates from 2002. With these decades-old statistics, NZ is essentially flying blind when it comes to knowing what … Chief Executive, New Zealand Food & Grocery Council. Dr Cristina Cleghorn , Department of Public Health, …
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