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  • The draft NZ Health Strategy: Will it enable New Zealanders to “live well, stay well and get well”?

    … The new draft NZ Health Strategy is strong on strengthening the health care system and has some strong population health aspects, at least rhetorically. It includes phrases …
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  • Protecting Whānau Ora: Why long-term relationships matter for child health

    … Aotearoa New Zealand’s most effective programmes for child health equity. Whānau Ora’s success lies in its long-term, … inequity.   The Whānau Ora programme coordinates family access to services and care in ways that work for them.  … Ngāi Tahu), the change presents the possibility of iwi-community co-design. At the same time, new commissioners may …
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  • Urgent measures needed to allow the safe re-opening of Auckland schools

    … and other regions of the country where there is ongoing community transmission of COVID-19. These include very high vaccination coverage of staff and eligible students, improved ventilation in schools, … to further transmission of COVID-19, with devastating health and wellbeing outcomes for children, young people and …
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  • Perspective: The NZ Health Research Strategy Discussion Document – much scope for improvement

    … Government deserves congratulations for coming up with a Health Research Strategy. But the current Discussion Document … proposed. It makes a lot of sense for a country to have a health research strategy. It should make it easier for … in some of the topic areas in which University of Otago staff have worked, it is clear that there are preventive …
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  • Beautiful benchtops: How should we protect our workers?

    … engineered stone. This exposure leads to silica-related health issues in stonemasons and construction workers. … pathway. Many workers avoided the pathway due to limited access to healthcare in general, fears of job and income … inequalities which makes it a priority that workers have access to on-the-job occupational health input, health …
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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … Youth populations worldwide are experiencing a mental health crisis. The 2024 World Happiness report (WHR24) found … clinicians, and ensuring that youth-informed community and mental health services are sufficiently funded … ). In New Zealand, ‘ Youth One Stop Shops’ v operate as community-based centres providing free or low-cost primary …
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  • Where do the parties stand? A low carbon, healthy transport system

    … it comes to policies that promote planetary and population health. While some parties have policies that represent a … are excluded from the benefits that transport brings (e.g. access to employment, to healthcare and to whānau … children and half price for young people up to 25 and for Community Services Card holders in Budget 2023. The Green …
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  • The Pros and Cons of a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: The Case is Overwhelmingly Pro for NZ

    … Aotearoa 2025 Goal. We find that this is an ideal health goal given the large health gains, impact on reducing health inequalities, and … strong evidence base (taxation, reducing appeal, reducing access, media campaigns etc) and that could all be …
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  • Vaping needs much tighter regulation as we approach Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Two new studies

    … new insights into the impact vaping may have on public health. The first estimates that use of modern vaping devices … of vaping. Our modelling results suggest that widespread access to vaping products in NZ (compared to vaping products … could be a third as harmful to health as smoking. While access to vaping products is likely to reduce the overall …
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  • Avoidable hospitalisations: Helping our health system get through COVID-19

    … it is possible that New Zealand can use intense public health controls to eradicate COVID-19 from the country – we … make significant and valuable differences for hospital staff, medical centres and patients. Even with reduced … we need to remember the many other benefits to the NZ community from reduced population-level alcohol use – …
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