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  • Establishing Long COVID services in Aotearoa NZ – what can we learn from overseas?

    … 2 Further up-to-date information on Long COVID (LC) can be read here . Internationally, the prevalence of LC has been … symptoms. Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) appear to be essential for LC services and the core clinicians involved … patients had delayed referral and consideration should be given to proactive follow-up of patients managed in the …
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  • NZ compares well with other OECD countries in health & other areas: But scope for improvements

    … your health in general?” 89% of people in NZ reported to be in good health. This was much higher than the OECD average … water supply is fairly good in NZ (and people seem to be generally happy with it as detailed above), a question … prevention and control is where large health gains could be made (given NZ Burden of disease data). The government …
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  • Improving ventilation in schools: a key protection against Covid-19 outbreaks and an enduring legacy for healthier learning

    … compared with earlier outbreaks. It now appears to be the turn of Aotearoa New Zealand’s young people to bear … aged 12-15 years is a welcome development, but it will be some months before a significant proportion of this age … is still awaited. As a result, children in Aotearoa will be mixing in large numbers while still almost completely …
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  • Climate change and cherry blossom

    … line by line, the summary for policy makers, which aims to be a compact, accessible digest of the work of 30 chapter … assessment. The science is not settled, it never will be entirely, but it is now sufficiently robust that the … will occur (and what obligations and commitments may be incurred), and what are effective (and palatable) measures …
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  • Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected

    … The health impacts of raising speed limits are likely to be significant and wide-ranging, and the costs will be far greater than any benefits. In recent years local … added that it would reduce inequalities as “people tend to be at most risk of being hurt or killed by cars in the poorer …
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  • Tax policy reform: equity, fairness, and health

    … basic social, health, economic and environmental goals to be achieved. Tax design is about how we gather government … and systemic issue of inequality and means by which it can be addressed. Te Tiriti o Waitangi and tax Historically our … and whether revenue is gathered from all those who should be contributing Whether revenue-gathering applies to all …
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  • The need for an expanded national smokefree law – just got more critical

    … One response to this is that a new Calculator will have to be designed by the Ministry of Health so that it produces … of the current law. However, we argue that this will still be difficult to do and that there would continue to be problems. This is because the Smoke-free Environments Act …
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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

    … of Indigenous peoples’ 1 we describe actions that can be taken to address several warning signals about gaps in our … In practice this means that true collective immunity will be difficult to achieve using vaccines alone. To navigate the … Zealanders are unvaccinated. The Alert Levels also need to be updated to reflect what is now known about the importance …
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  • Government cannot achieve “enduring freshwater policy” by siding with narrow commercial interests

    … “further water quality attributes and numbers will be added over time.” 11 Since 2014, as public and expert … undermine communities’ health and well-being. Councils may be dominated by councillors with primary sector interests 12  … Mana o te Wai concept is that it envisages that waters may be in a degraded state, and if so, they should be restored …
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  • What can we learn from Healthy Housing Initiatives? New evidence from the Wellington Well Homes scheme

    … of kids who are hospitalised for illnesses that could be related to poor housing conditions. In this blog post, we … of kids who are hospitalised for illnesses that could be related to poor housing conditions –  make a lot of sense. … participant explained, “ a heater is just a basic need to be warm, so it is going to impact them straight away ”.  To …
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