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  • Another Havelock North? Govt undoing protections for drinking water safety

    … interests and other activities that could harm people’s health through contaminated, or otherwise degraded, drinking … from the catchment in a way that impacts communities’ access to water).  Repeal of Three Water reforms The Havelock … a council where they are the supplier for a town, city, or community. Taumata Arowai, the drinking water regulator, …
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  • Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?

    … The NZ Ministry of Health is currently reviewing public submissions on options … Ministry of Health is considering whether and how to allow access to nicotine-containing e-cigarettes in NZ. These … and pubs) could be at risk from legal action by staff or their unions. Such legal action would be an …
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  • The smokefree policies of political parties: Do they care about people who smoke?

    … importance. Smokers are more vulnerable to many harmful health effects, including severe effects from the virus. … though Labour promises to ‘ continue to train up to 12,000 community-based workers over the next three years ’ and to … ideological stances, where ‘individual rights’ trump ‘community benefit’, and parties fear of being labelled as …
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  • Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking

    … environment, strengths we can build on. Consider the health data.  All mortality and hospitalisation events, cancer registration, publicly funded community pharmacy dispensings, lab tests, and so on, can be … of birth removed. Only vetted and approved researchers can access selected, deidentified datasets for specific projects. …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … rapidly vaccinating all remaining border and frontline health workers, ensuring that all New Zealanders are able to … mask requirements that can be matched to the risk in the community: The ‘ travel and health settings ’ where masks are … include maintaining food security and sovereignty, access to healthcare, access to learning and other …
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  • Robust vaccine surveillance shows safety – we need to communicate this better

    … To build trust and maintain confidence in vaccines, NZ health agencies need to be far more active in communicating … majority of people to have confidence in vaccine safety.  Access to excellent administrative data collections must … of vaccines used here. Also, there is now a large global community of vaccine safety scientists collaborating in …
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  • Adaptation important but don’t give up on mitigation—what the new IPCC report means for Aotearoa

    … end of the century. Climate change already damages human health and wellbeing, including in New Zealand. This article … new report in the New Zealand context, highlighting public health impacts as well as policy pathways for both adapting … part of what is needed. We need to pay attention also to community building, poverty reduction, ending inequities and …
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  • Advance Care Planning – good for patient care and better use of health dollars?

    … of thinking about, talking about and planning for future health care and end of life care. In its delivery, this seems a very clinically focussed, individual health care process, so what relevance has it got for Public … voice “I don’t want to live anymore.” I asked the staff what treatment she was on and found that they were …
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  • Kiwi public health doc reporting back from Victoria (Australia): “Do quarantine well!”

    … of Otago, Wellington. Indeed, I set up this very Public Health Expert Blog with Nick Wilson ten years ago. Now I am … virus, or are close to such a definition (28 days without community transmission of cases where the source is unknown). … downtown hotels. Two hotels have had outbreaks among the staff undertaking the quarantine. These staff, in large part, …
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  • NZ compares well with other OECD countries in health & other areas: But scope for improvements

    … also various ways we could make further improvements in health, safety and the environment. The good news is that … well in the well-being domain ( see previous Public Health Expert blog ). Higher self-reported health (2/36): When asked, “How is your health in general?” …
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