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New Zealand can lead the world in tobacco control: Plain packaging 2.0
… sticks and rolling papers, and foregrounding Quitline information and supportive cessation messages on packages . … impactful warning compared to a plain pack with a strong health warning. Evidence that this particular group was less … Initially introduced to increase smokers’ awareness of the health risks smoking causes, new evidence suggests health …
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Increasing whooping cough cases put pēpi at risk. What can be done about it?
… in credible, evidence-based patient-facing immunisation information; and enabling Lead Maternity Carers (LMCs) to … immunisation system The single most important public health measure to protect pēpi is ensuring access to … coverage is multi-factorial and likely perpetuated by health system barriers including differential access to …
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Time to stop dodging bullets? NZ’s eight recent border control failures
… including: shifting to a risk-based approach to border management (a traffic light system ), fine-tuning the Alert … six MIQ facility failures, five involved workers (three health workers, a defence worker and a maintenance worker) … and one was a returnee infected in a facility. The three health workers and the defence worker were all infected in …
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Progress on reducing retail availability of sugary drinks in NZ
… availability of these products which are both harming oral health and fuelling the obesity epidemic. There are good … approach to preventing obesity and protecting oral health would go much further. One part of such an approach … SSBs in NZ include a request in 2015 from the Ministry of Health that public hospitals remove from sale all SSBs. There …
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A pandemic that won’t go away – as Covid enters its 5th year, NZ needs a realistic strategy
… and those with underlying illness. But its largest health impact may be Long Covid because it is relatively … this virus is still causing a pandemic. The World Health Organization refers to Covid-19 as a continuing pandemic . As Scientific American put it recently, it “has been the elephant in every …
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Worth its weight: Building insulation in New Zealand
… Building insulation provides comfort and health benefits to occupants, saves energy, enhances energy … from insulation that include providing comfort, protecting health, saving energy, enhancing energy security, and … improving building performance. He suggests that the health benefits of improving insulation in rental housing …
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Evidence supports the need to protect adolescents from social media harms
… and support youth and whānau through a coordinated public health response. The Government of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) … Young people in Aotearoa are facing greater mental health challenges than ever before. Over the past 14 years, … between social media use and poorer mental and physical health outcomes. More recently, evidence inferring a causal …
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Media release: Aotearoa NZ reaches ‘Earth Overshoot Day’ - Time to act for a more sustainable future
… average of 30 July. The latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre explains how we can achieve a … sustainable society that also supports improved public health. Earth Overshoot Day signals the moment when our … ensuring that environmental conservation and resource management are core to decision-making. While Earth Overshoot …
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Using Rapid Antigen Tests to improve COVID-19 control in Aotearoa NZ
… NAATs on nasopharyngeal swabs are considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the gold standard for COVID-19 … to prevent their inappropriate use during a public health emergency. This action was taken by Medsafe under the … but complementary roles in the pandemic response and case management”. [6] The authors suggest that RATs may have a …
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Reducing the spread of antibiotic resistance in New Zealand, action is long overdue!
… infections that may have a significant impact on the health of the unwell person. Any reductions in this antibiotic use may harm the health of the unwell person. And there are some conditions … increased antibiotic use could significantly improve the health of people in NZ. For example, the persistently high …
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