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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Mental health services can’t solve a mental health crisis: public mental health priorities in Aotearoa

    … support for those with mental illness.  This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series  looking at effective … will experience mental distress this year and the number of New Zealanders experiencing poor mental wellbeing is … five years, with this trend predicted to continue. On top of this, we know the pandemic and rāhui/lockdowns exacerbated …
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  • Communicating public health evidence – a successful first year for the PHCC

    … Summary It has been a year since the launch of the Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC) and the … communicate public health evidence. The increasing number of Briefings, contributing authors, subscriber numbers, and … for this independent voice. We have covered a wide range of key public health issues and will continue to do so. As we …
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  • Progress on reducing retail availability of sugary drinks in NZ

    … New Zealand has made some progress in removing the sale of sugary drinks from hospitals and schools. In this blog we … consider what could be done to further reduce availability of these products which are both harming oral health and … and protecting oral health would go much further. One part of such an approach would be to reduce the retail …
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  • A 100 years ago today – the likely first NZ death from the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … from synthetic bioweapons). We highlight the importance of continuing to invest in public health infrastructure and pandemic preparedness and planning. The start of this pandemic was the beginning of the worst single natural disaster to kill New Zealanders …
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  • NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?

    … for a second time this week on the consultation draft of the NZ Health Strategy, focusing this time on preventive … that would have the biggest health impact (a goal of the strategy), reduce health inequalities (another goal of … what Pharmac does for drugs and devices, to inform policy development. Name an agency to oversee such provision of …
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  • The need for an updated strategic approach to Covid-19 control in Aotearoa NZ

    … and “regional elimination”. To maximise the success of this strategy, NZ would need to ensure tighter internal … that show that successful internal border control of Covid-19 is possible. Until very recently, Aotearoa NZ was … connections with the world to allow larger numbers of New Zealanders to safely enter the country. The current …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Stemming the tide of cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … focusing on system level solutions .   The blog  is part of the  Public Health Solutions series  looking at effective … to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. In a recent issue of the medical journal The Lancet , a colleague and I had the … a commentary on the latest findings from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study.  The study had examined the …
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  • Ireland leads New Zealand in the battle against obesity

    … is planning on obesity and food – a far cry from the state of play in New Zealand. Which has led to this blog, in which … Ireland and New Zealand. Tony Blakely. In the last couple of years the Irish rugby team gave the All Blacks cause to … approach but rather a comprehensive approach that supports development of personal skills AND facilitates environments …
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  • Possible strategic approaches to achieve the NZ Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

    … trends in smoking prevalence, and the potential roles of interventions such as higher regular tobacco tax increases … is ongoing increases in tobacco taxes, intensification of existing evidence-based tobacco control activities and implementation of a major new ‘endgame’ strategy (such as denicotinisation). …
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  • Emphasis on indigenous forests in ETS would benefit public health

    … is currently consulting the public on a redesign of the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), its key climate … from redesigning the ETS to drive the restoration of indigenous forests in the face of climate change. Given the extent of such benefits, a …
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