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  • ACC turns 50: A more modern approach to injury prevention needed

    … New Zealanders for decades, its injury prevention efforts often focus narrowly on individual behaviour rather than … prevention strategies. That shift in direction would be a worthy advance to celebrate 50 years of serving Aotearoa … recognising that while a victim’s behaviour (or mistakes) often plays a role, addressing structural and environmental …
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  • Regulatory Standards Bill threatens the public interest, public health and Māori rights

    … Summary The Regulatory Standards Bill aims to establish “a benchmark for good legislation through a set of principles … health from likely harms. For instance, the 'takings or impairment' principle would enable commercial interests to … and environmental sustainability. The proposed ‘takings or impairment’ principle, by requiring public compensation for …
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  • Five Potential Enhancements of Covid-19 Outbreak Control in Aotearoa NZ

    … propose the following potential enhancements: (i) develop a robust system to allow for region-specific Alert Levels; … revealed by the Prime Minister yesterday indicates a relatively recent source of the current outbreak in … to help accelerate outbreak control. Indeed, spread of infection by essential workers has been a problem with the …
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  • The Smokefree 2025 goal is in danger of receding – will the Ministry of Health’s ‘realignment’ get it back on track?

    … progress New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal. However, will a ‘realignment’ of existing services ensure the goal is realised? In this blog, based on a recently published letter in the New Zealand Medical … supported recommendations (7), full implementation has often not occurred. For example, expenditure on mass media …
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  • Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls

    … In a just published study (and accompanying evaluation summary … began funding a vaccination programme against HPV infection in 2008 [1]. After various catch-up phases, vaccination has been routinely …
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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … Summary Youth populations worldwide are experiencing a mental health crisis. The 2024 World Happiness report (WHR24) found a steep decline in the mental wellbeing of youth. Findings … pressing issue by successive governments, yet actions have often remained partisan. Cross-party action must be a …
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  • Prevention and treatment of mental disorders will help reduce dementia

    … yet unmet need for services has also grown, highlighting a care gap. The evidence underscores the need for early, … and untreated depression. Secondly, factors that reduce cognitive reserve, the brain’s ability to tolerate damage: … compared to those rating their health as excellent, even after accounting for existing physical or mental health …
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  • Continuing annual tobacco tax increases: New modelling of the likely impact

    … be 21.4% for Māori and to 8.9% for non-Māori – compared to a projected 22.7% and 9.3% if this taxation programme had not … 2016. Prevalence reductions may be greater if we hit a ‘tipping point’ – our modelling necessarily uses … to a status quo wherein the taxation had not continued after January 2016) The news that NZ will at least continue …
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  • Potential health co-benefits from eradicating rats, stoats and possums in NZ towns and cities

    … possums in New Zealand, seems increasingly feasible with a new national 2050 goal and action at the city level eg, … resilience measure (eg, in Wellington), but such water is often of poor microbiological quality in NZ with some of the … Although predator-prey relationships are complex and often not well understood (24), the eradication of rats and …
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  • Earth Overshoot Day: Should Aotearoa New Zealand be more like Uruguay?

    … widespread unsustainable practices, especially compared to a country like Uruguay, whose overshoot day is 17 December.  While overshoot day is a vivid communication tool, it simplifies complex systems and … practices. Central and Local Government could advance a range of policies to minimize unsustainable resource use in …
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