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  • Lessons from Canada for NZ: Carbon, Cycling, Tobacco, Nutrition and Cannabis

    … In this blog we briefly look at 6 potential lessons for NZ in the domains of: (i) responding to climate change; (ii) … legal and organisational similarities to New Zealand (NZ). Canada’s current government is also relatively … reasons the Canadian policy experience may be relevant to NZ and be worth studying. Here we look at six stand-out areas …
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  • Potential health co-benefits from eradicating rats, stoats and possums in NZ towns and cities

    … trend that has seen successful pest eradication on many of NZ’s offshore islands and in “mainland islands” (2). Within … complete eradication of rats might be difficult in NZ cities, on-going control at ports and railway freight … from pest eradication are likely to be very large for NZ – especially if bovine tuberculosis can be eradicated (eg, …
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  • Sustained Resilience: the impact of nuclear war on New Zealand and how to mitigate catastrophe

    … we must also consider what happens if prevention fails. NZ is often cited as somewhere most likely to preserve a … triggered by nuclear war could shift the state of NZ society from one of flourishing to one of mere survival. … of societal failure and conclude with a set of first steps NZ could take to strengthen its societal systems.   “I had a …
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  • Protecting New Zealand children from the developing Omicron outbreak

    … Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) is likely to soon be experiencing widespread community … in all settings during an Omicron outbreak. Lessons for NZ from the global experience of Omicron The Omicron variant … who are largely unvaccinated in many jurisdictions, (as in NZ), case numbers have been at their highest globally since …
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  • Taxing tobacco in NZ: What we know and what could be next

    … will end in January 2016 unless it is extended by the NZ Government. In this blog we take a timely look at what is … The recent pattern of annual tobacco tax increases in NZ has been associated with a 23% reduction in tobacco … relative to a 8.3% price in a premium brand (based on a NZ survey of 448 retailers (4)). Such pricing strategies …
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  • Parliamentary voting for smokefree over two decades: Implications for future progress

    … health and economic burden from tobacco in Aotearoa NZ is a health, health equity, and economic tragedy. It … among the public.  To provide political context for NZ smokefree policies, we examined the Parliamentary voting … that in 2024 repealed the 2022 smokefree legislation. The NZ First Party and ACT Party generally voted against …
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  • Perspective: The NZ Health Research Strategy Discussion Document – much scope for improvement

    … focused vision. Current strengths of health research in NZ There is relatively high quality research done by internationally well-recognised researchers in NZ. As noted in the Discussion Document , NZ health research articles are above the OECD average in 6 …
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  • The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review

    … and morbidity impacts of the First World War on the NZ population. While much is known about the large health … coming years. According to the Roll-of-Honour dataset for NZ military forces in the First World War (WW1), the last NZ soldiers “killed in action” died on 7 November 1918, one …
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  • Preventing diabetes: What does the latest modelling evidence tell us about health gains and cost savings?

    … Approximately 5.5% of NZ adults have been diagnosed with diabetes. In this blog we … inequalities, and save billions in health sector costs for NZ. In 2013-2014, it was estimated that around 5.5% of NZ adults (those aged 15 years and over) had diagnosed …
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  • Robust vaccine surveillance shows safety – we need to communicate this better

    … a good ongoing safety record. In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) Medsafe has a well-established national system for … post-marketing pharmacovigilance.  For example, data from NZ and overseas show that the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 mRNA … risks is only possible with robust surveillance systems.  NZ's vaccine pharmacovigilance capacity is a valuable …
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