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  • Public health and Budget 2024

    … more medicines may mean less funding for problem debt and social housing).  There is no easy way for the Ministry of … future avoided health costs for better housing today.  The social investment approach championed by then finance … health programmes, and  there is less money for the wider social determinants of health, especially those who are poor …
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  • The Government’s transport plans work against our health

    … for an already overburdened health system, as well as social, economic and environmental costs to society. The lack … the pathways in Figure 1 leads to a wide range of health, social and economic impacts. For example, if we take physical … health harms have significant economic impacts. The annual social costs of the health impacts just from the air …
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  • Calling for action on suicide prevention in Aotearoa

    … and clinical interventions, while overlooking broader social determinants.      Central principles for suicide … gender; 7 structural determinants including macroeconomic/social policies, racism, discrimination, impacts of … of government and society approach that addresses the social determinants that have the greatest links to suicide. …
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  • “Nudging” to improve QR scanning and mask wearing to protect us all during a pandemic

    … Levels, this blog considers the supplementary role for social marketing and environmental strategies that could … easier to perform than others. Examples of successful social marketing “nudges” include printing the image of a … a former Professor of Marketing and introduced the first social marketing courses taught in New Zealand universities; …
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  • Preparing for Omicron: A proactive Government response is urgently needed to minimise harms

    … will favour adjustments to existing public health and social measures to ‘flatten the curve’ and minimise the risk of health service overload and social and economic disruptions.   Updated threat assessment … prevent the health system being overwhelmed, and to reduce social and economic disruption. As a result, the primary …
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  • Covid recovery or sustainable transformation?

    … addressing the climate crisis and wider environmental and social goals. We already know that easy prosperity is over : … a largely short-term response, plus follow-up economic and social reconstruction. By contrast, climate change is one of …
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  • Five years on, Covid-19 remains NZ’s most important infectious disease – it still demands a strong response

    … regular vaccinations, and improved public health and social measures such as better indoor air quality, free RAT … to maintain effectiveness. 3. Using public health and social measures to reduce infections These measures include … both the incidence of infection (with public health and social measures) and the severity and duration of illness …
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  • A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development

    … zones (gardens, forests, estuaries, natural nurseries) and social and cultural amenities, as well as opportunities for … home environments – both as physical entities and as social and cultural settings – extend beyond the physical … Appendix Two ), and span the physical environment, and the social and cultural environment where these concepts act to …
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  • Using a fun “Mask Day” at school to promote pandemic protection in the NZ community

    … others performing it [7] [8], this is described as ‘social contagion’. One way to promote mass masking as an act of social contagion, in the absence of a mask mandate, may be … action such as this can potentially foster a sense of social solidarity which can lessen the fear of the pandemic …
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  • Five actions to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, with a focus on Auckland

    … levels of vaccine coverage needed to limit the health and social harm caused by the current pandemic. Several of these … [MBIE], NZ Police, Department of Corrections, Ministry of Social Development [MSD], emergency and social housing providers, Alcohol and Drug Services, Auckland …
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