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  • Smokefree Aotearoa – world-leading developments with profound public health implications

    … the Māori Affairs Select Committee of the New Zealand (NZ) Parliament, the NZ Government committed to the Smokefree … Tobacco) Amendment Act In 2021 the new Associate Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall published a discussion document for an … , Department of Public Health, University of Otago. Prof Janet Hoek , Department of Public Health, University of …
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  • More than 147km – the transformative potential of the Wellington bike network plan

    … and is actually higher than a number of other cities in NZ. International evidence on the association between the … think that this level of cycling would be impossible in NZ. There seems to be a belief that we are somehow more … of cycling could not happen in Wellington or elsewhere in NZ are most likely because we have never tried to do this …
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  • A kinder way to deliver penicillin for rheumatic fever: Shouldn’t children have this choice?

    … and disease progression. In an Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) clinical trial, over 400 SCIP doses have been … Whakaihu Waka, Pōneke | University of Otago, Wellington Dr Erik Andersen, Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand, Capital, … Ora Health New Zealand, Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley Dr Hazel Dobinson, Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand, Capital, …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … gap evident for women aged 15 to 24 years. In the 2015/16 NZ Health Survey 34% of Māori in this group smoke compared … the harms associated with smoking. In recent years, the NZ Ministry of Health has adopted the position that vaping is … These images have been used to promote vaping in Aotearoa NZ (6) and specifically to target Māori (7) and other …
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  • Another Havelock North? Govt undoing protections for drinking water safety

    … outbreak ever reported, not only in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) but the world. 1  However, it wasn’t the only NZ outbreak caused by a contaminated drinking water supply in … the existence of drinking water standards for some time in NZ, some communities have had their drinking water …
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  • Where do the parties stand? A low carbon, healthy transport system

    … survey of political parties in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) on the topic of transport policy. Three parties in the … of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington Dr Helen Fitt , Department of Population Health, University … and Earth Sciences, Victoria University Wellington Dr Kirsty Wild , Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, …
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  • Market deregulation → ↑ fast food consumption → ↑ obesity. Clever international study that includes NZ data

    … per person per year was exactly that observed for NZ during the 1999 to 2008 period covered by this study. The … transactions per person over the ten years of the study – NZ increased by 10.  The y-axis shows the increase in BMI – NZ increased by just over 1.0 BMI units.  So, this …
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  • Insights into health system costs of living and dying in New Zealand – New study

    … A study in the NZ Medical Journal shows how public spending on health varies … 1. Estimated cumulative health system costs (in 2011 NZ$) for deaths at different ages (assuming a steady state … of life). What about future public health expenditure in NZ? Our country has a mostly publicly funded health system, …
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  • What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes and public health

    … (Figure 1). In April 2014 the Cook Islands adopted a NZ$9.80 tax per kg of sugar on sugar sweetened soft drinks which is equivalent to NZ$0.38 additional cost for a can of coke. In the Pacific … over time (McKinsey Global Institute, 2014). So perhaps NZ needs to start having a mature public discussion about …
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  • A pandemic that won’t go away – as Covid enters its 5th year, NZ needs a realistic strategy

    … persists into its fifth year in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), we need to recognise that this pandemic is very … globe. But Covid is  still circulating  four years after NZ reported its first case, and more than two years after the … to cause pandemic waves four years after it arrived in NZ.  Covid-19 is still causing more hospitalisations and …
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