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Government funding of interpreters in Primary Care is needed to ensure quality care
… enable Primary Care to look after Covid-19 patients in the community and the Ministry of Health has provided central … an interpreter, this can have a major effect on the whole community. We know that the Delta outbreak in Auckland was significantly within the Pacific community. What we do not know is what proportion of those …
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Protecting Whānau Ora: Why long-term relationships matter for child health
… Ngāi Tahu), the change presents the possibility of iwi-community co-design. At the same time, new commissioners may … of the key mechanisms that emerged as key for kaimahi (community health workers) to achieve improved equity and … addressing rights as key to improving health outcomes. 5 Community-based child health providers who engage with …
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Local alcohol policies: What’s the opportunity to reduce harm?
… developing and adopting stronger LAPs that better reflect community expectations. This Briefing outlines the renewed … Te Tiriti o Waitangi responsibilities, comprehensive community involvement, real reductions in availability over … review; the court confirmed that LAPs can be based on community preference and a likelihood (rather than proof) of …
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A Smokefree Aotearoa – could making tobacco products available only through community pharmacies help us get there?
… of smoked tobacco products could be restricted solely to community pharmacies after the number of retail outlets … is that tobacco products are made available through community pharmacies. So what are the potential advantages … cigarette and tobacco sales to a limited number of community pharmacies could maximise the positive impact of …
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Preparing for Omicron: A proactive Government response is urgently needed to minimise harms
… Delta variant in NZ. Since reaching a peak of around 200 community cases a day in mid-November 2021, Delta cases have … 1: New Zealand’s 7-day average of Covid-19 cases in the community (confirmed and probable) (from 1 February 2020 to … Omicron. While not all of these failures will result in a community outbreak, a certain proportion almost certainly …
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Media release: A call for strong leadership to reduce NZ’s dangerously high antibiotic use
… Dr Thomas points out that significant reductions in community antibiotic dispensing have occurred in many other … organisations have set ambitious goals for reductions in community antibiotic prescribing. “Similar reductions could be readily achieved in New Zealand if community prescribers committed to prescribing antibiotics …
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Smokefree Aotearoa – world-leading developments with profound public health implications
… Key priorities for the smokefree and public health community include providing sustained advocacy and support to … funding for mass media campaigns, and support for community mobilisation and community-based interventions to help achieve the smokefree …
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Engaging online simulator of measles outbreaks (& how NZ needs to do better in eliminating measles)
… not trigger other cases. You can even see that sometimes a community with 80% coverage will be protected when a community at 90% will not – that’s the effect of chance. For a community to be really safe from a measles outbreak it pays …
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The Omicron waves – Comparing Aotearoa NZ and Australia in four key graphs
… in South Africa in late November 2021, with Australian community cases identified in early December 2021. Whereas … case at the border occurred in mid-December 2021, with community transmission first reported in mid-January 2022 . … more highly transmissible Omicron variant spread into the community was a wave of cases on a substantially larger scale …
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Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand
… homes need to be provided by central or local government, community trusts, iwi or hapū, using innovative models, such … evaluated. The location of housing in relation to schools, community amenities, green and blue spaces is critical to occupants feeling part of the existing community and having access to school and workplaces that are …
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