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  • Introducing the Public Health Solutions Blog Series

    … few weeks, Public Health Expert blog will be publishing a series of invited blogs o n the best public health … demand on the healthcare system with waves of acute infection, which need to be managed with a depleted workforce experiencing illness itself. …
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  • Regulating vaping and new nicotine products: Are tobacco companies’ goals aligned with public health objectives?

    … products and alternative nicotine delivery systems. In a previous blog, ASPIRE 2025 researchers summarised the … people and non-nicotine users. This blog – intended as a follow-up article to further promote discussion – … these products and maximise their potential to “act as a route out of smoking for New Zealand’s 550,000 daily …
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  • What the fizz! A week of dealing to sugary drinks in NY and NZ

    … A curious week in the world of soft drinks. The surprising … normalisation is spilling over into kids – for example, after a 5 minute cross-country running race watch the number … for PowerAde, a sports drink that really is only needed after 90 minutes of intense exercise. Per 100ml, standard …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle by the numbers – A review at six months

    … ‘by the numbers’ what is known about this disaster after six months. Our impression remains that NZ has a low level of resilience to this type of hazard event. While … which exacerbate poverty and inequities. These households often live in low-cost housing rentals in areas prone to …
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  • Breaking the inequity loop

    … The all-of-population approach has failed for more than a century to address Māori health inequalities. Government … still trying to count Māori properly 5 – suggest that after falling by more than two-thirds from around 150,000 … Authority with a budget to commission work programmes – is often toxically reframed as Māori privilege.  This kind of …
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  • A major new study on Kiwi health – can it inform decision-making?

    … TVNZ (4’09”).) The Ministry of Health has just released a major new burden of disease study for 2006, a culmination of a large epidemiological stocktake for New Zealand. The study …
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  • Five key reasons why NZ should have an official inquiry into the response to the COVID-19 pandemic

    … Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Jennifer Summers, A/Prof George Thomson, Dr Amanda Kvalsvig, Dr Matt Boyd, Prof … advisory groups. The surveillance strategy for SARS-CoV-2 infection. The legal framework to support the pandemic … international scientific literature. Nevertheless, it is often hard to disentangle all the components of multi-layered …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Protecting the healthcare system: a strategic approach to reducing infectious disease impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … demand on healthcare quickly. T he SARS-CoV-2 virus may be a new pathogen, but in many ways the pandemic is simply a larger-scale version of the endemic and epidemic infectious … high rates of seasonal and other infections. Every serious infection including Covid-19 has the potential to cause …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … that the effect of not allowing practitioners to charge a co-payment will significantly undermine provision of aid in dying. In a blog last year (Gray, 2020) I argued that it is very … that assisted dying would be predominantly taken up by a small number of mostly educated white people. The recently …
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  • Local alcohol policies: What’s the opportunity to reduce harm?

    … in 2023 have reduced the risk of litigation, removing a significant barrier to developing and adopting … 9  NZ data shows people buying take-away alcohol after 10pm are more likely to be heavier drinkers. 10  Recent … they lost, creating a nine year delay. 14  Some five years after the introduction of the Act, only 24% of the population …
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