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  • The policy bonfire of environment protection: 10 examples that threaten public health

    … new Government’s approach to environmental policy shows a clear pattern towards allowing more pollution of water, … experiences 3300 premature adult deaths per year as a result of air pollution and an estimated 34,000 people … that better reflect realistic ecosystem health needs after previous versions allowed for levels of pollution that …
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  • The long shadow of Cyclone Gabrielle: Brief review at 12 months

    …   Summary A year ago Cyclone Gabrielle struck Aotearoa New Zealand and … in NZ (Manawatu 2004), 8 and long-term health effects after earthquakes impacting Christchurch. 9 Ongoing … economic loss from the farmland that has not been repaired after Cyclone Gabrielle. For example, “about 650 hectares of …
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  • (Un)licensed to kill: do we need to regulate how tobacco is sold?

    …   Example of a tobacco free retailer in Northland (Source: Northern … everyday products such as milk and bread, and in stores often visited by children, is not consistent with the … blog – though sales were subsequently stopped completely after a further amendment to the law). If the Government can …
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  • Comparing the Covid-19 response and major outcomes in island nations

    … findings in our recent journal publication on whether a vigorous, proactive response to the Covid-19 pandemic was … the high-income (OECD) island nations, those which used a more proactive strategic response to Covid-19 (such as in … strategies. Therefore, when faced with the threat of a severe pandemic, island nations should consider such …
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  • Using the CovidCard to enhance protection from COVID-19 at the NZ border

    … and isolation facilities. We discuss how this is a promising move that should facilitate further improvements … isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities have highlighted a systems failure. Likewise, a number of high profile … obvious benefit is identifying those workers at risk of infection by a newly identified case and being able to manage …
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  • Rebuilding Aotearoa’s statistical foundation: Toward fairer outcomes for Pacific Peoples

    … Stats NZ’s shift to an admin data-first census, after two censuses that failed to equitably represent all New … cannot support equitable health outcomes. It proposes a centralised, event-based population IT system with standardised demographic fields. Such a system would improve accuracy, reduce duplication, lower …
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  • Daily aspirin for preventing cancer and heart disease – where to from here in NZ?

    … A recently published review has quantified the estimated … aspirin for disease prevention. The results indicate a relatively favourable benefit-to-harm ratio (good for … published review article by Cuzick and colleagues provides a state-of-the-art summary and integration of the data. Out …
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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … more preparations in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) concerning a future national outbreak of Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 … for Johnson & Johnson) receive a third dose at 6 months after their second dose.” Vaccination coverage data was as … toward 3 days.” From Figure 10.1 (in the NZ Report) the infection-fatality rate (IFR) on 10 January 2022 is <0.2% …
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  • New Zealand can lead the world in tobacco control: Plain packaging 2.0

    … among both adults and adolescents (4-7). Furthermore, a recent analysis of plain packaging’s effects undertaken by … in on-pack labelling typically depict illnesses that occur after many years of smoking. Because many young people … before facing serious health risks (12), these warnings often have little impact. By contrast, warnings that depict …
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  • In the news: Public Health Priorities Series

    … Here's a selection of coverage of the Public Health Priorities … co-authors closed the Public Health Priorities series with a call to action for our water regulator to do more to … catastrophic risks. They talked about how democracies often struggle to overcome their biases toward short-term …
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