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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 … the new report in the New Zealand context, highlighting public health impacts as well as policy pathways for both … action: both mitigation and adaptation We highlight public health impacts of relevance to NZ, such as …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table Series: Prevention versus treatment, voluntary versus mandatory, targeted versus untargeted – can we generalize?

    … what approaches might typically generate the most health gain and be best value-for-money. In two of the … we have overviewed the concept of league tables to compare health sector interventions, and provided a ‘mini-user guide’ … suspect that some laws might not necessarily be best for public health overall (e.g., perhaps compulsory cycle helmets …
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  • World Ventil8 Day – How do our buildings measure up?

    … importance of ventilation as a crucial part of enabling health and wellbeing. Breathing clean air is so often ignored … requires CO2 levels to be displayed on monitors in public spaces (see more details in Appendix ). There is … In addition managers are required to draw up an action plan if issues with ventilation are identified .  Early this …
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  • Smokefree cars legislation: Should the new government make this a priority?

    … This would demonstrate their commitment to children’s health and well-being, respond to public and smoker opinion, follow official and Parliamentary … The recent Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan also called for smokefree car legislation,[8] which was …
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  • Comparing the Covid-19 response and major outcomes in island nations

    … Covid-19 pandemic was associated with better or worse key health and macroeconomic outcomes. We found that among the … of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, and Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand Dr John Kerr , Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand …
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  • Is Euthanasia a health priority for New Zealand at present?

    … benefit a small number of older educated white people. The health system is currently significantly stretched by the … right to conscientious objection. All health institutions (public hospitals, private hospitals, hospices, general … these two extremes. The first option would be a fully public provided service with higher opportunity cost to the …
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  • Ventilation in NZ schools during the Omicron wave – results from a preliminary study

    … Ventilation is a key and relatively underutilised public health measure that can reduce the risk of Covid-19 … Ventilation and Covid-19 transmission Ventilation is a key public health measure for the Covid-19 pandemic, and simply …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … area for improving population nutrition and diet-related health conditions. Food policies can improve food … to marketing, and food industry commitments. The extent of Public sector policies and actions were rated by public health expert panels in 2014, 2017 and 2020 3 against …
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  • Air pollution in Aotearoa NZ: Five key ways to reduce the massive health and social costs

    … discuss five key ones in this blog. These range from free public transport to reform of the electricity market to lower costs to citizens. The latest iteration of the Health and Air Pollution in New Zealand Study (HAPINZ 3.0) … 4 5 ). Our top five solutions are as follows: Adopt free public transport funded by upgraded transport pricing (ie, …
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  • Meat, health, hospitals, and sustainability*

    … out of date. Over-consumption of meat is costing us. Our health, our healthcare system, and our environment are all in … the consumption of plant-based foods as a general public health message is the right thing to be doing, this is … Author: John D Potter MBBS PhD, Professor, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, …
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