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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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Counting what matters: Rethinking Aotearoa's population statistics without a census
… that they were not designed for. Ethnic diversity and a rapidly ageing population combine with volatile migration flows to give each place a distinctive challenge in balancing population focused … is that they are international standards developed after lengthy experience, and endorsed by international …
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Communicating public health evidence – a successful first year for the PHCC
… Summary It has been a year since the launch of the Public Health Communication … of health, which are unfortunately a force that often works against public health interests in many areas … The commercial determinants of health are a force that often works against long-term public health interests – along …
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The Smokefree 2025 Action Plan: key findings from the ITC New Zealand (EASE) project
… and methods The NZ Government recently published a Discussion Document setting out a bold and comprehensive action plan for how the Smokefree … products by permitting these products to be sold only in a small number of specialised stores or pharmacies; …
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Evaluation drives mandatory healthy food policy for hospital staff and visitors
… environments for staff and visitors (not in-patients). A 2021/22 co-designed evaluation found that fewer than half … particularly for Māori, Pacific, and shift staff, who often rely more on hospital food environments. 8 Food … by a working group which included a HYPE study member). After extensive revision, multiple iterations, and …
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Carcinogen exposure in Aotearoa workplaces is unacceptably high
… and creating an Aotearoa Occupational Health Service, with a focus on establishing lifetime access to screening and … work-related cancer is fraught with difficulty. There is often a long latency period between exposure at work and the … problem for work-related cancers that occur many years after exposure; the onus for monitoring the health of workers …
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How taking an evidence-informed approach can be used to prioritise interventions: The example of cardiovascular disease
… that have been studied for NZ. For example, we show a combined fruit and vegetable subsidy plus a sugar tax produces estimated lifetime savings of 894,000 … perspective – given that government decision-making is often driven by ideological factors or for short-term …
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Strengthening Omicron mitigation strategies in Early Childhood Education settings
… Aotearoa New Zealand is in a major Omicron outbreak. With Covid-19 cases doubling every … outdoor activities and appropriate mask use. Covid-19 infection in young children In general, young children … to be brief (median length of stay 2 to 3 days) and are often for croup, bronchiolitis, and dehydration. 1,2 In the …
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Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa
… This Briefing reports the findings and implications of a study focused on LGBTIQ+ people’s experiences of housing instability. Housing needs to be viewed as a human right. At a minimum, we need political changes such as greater …
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