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NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?
… to home, 3. Value and high performance, 4. One team, 5. Smart system), the gravitational pull of a focus on health … have a big impact on population health – in our view, and as we also commented on earlier this week . More on that in a … through ‘collective action’. So what is missing? Well, as per our previous blog there are plenty of key causes of …
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The science is certain: masks work. Policy and practice must support their use
… Collaboration to issue an apology and clarification . As authors of one critical analysis noted, “The studies [of … causing high levels of sickness, including Long Covid . 4 5 NZ also experiences large numbers of hospitalisations and … This approach is especially useful for infections such as Covid-19 where people may not have symptoms or know they …
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Beautiful benchtops: How should we protect our workers?
… being exposed to RCS across a variety of industries such as the fabrication of engineered stone benchtops, tunnelling, … and in susceptible individuals causes lung disease such as silicosis and lung cancer and in others, kidney disease … 190 workers had taken the first step of lodging a claim. 5 (See Appendix 2 for further detail.) Non-compliance with …
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Media release: Poor ventilation on buses and trains – a fixable risk to health
… increased risk of passing on respiratory infections such as Covid-19, according to new research. The latest Briefing … The research measured carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) levels in air as a marker for poor ventilation. When more than half of the … was also a clear pattern of increasingly poor ventilation as seats got filled up and especially if passengers were also …
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Smokefree cars – an important step towards protecting children from the hazards of smoking
… diseases, including life-long respiratory conditions such as asthma. 1 2 Smoking in the confined space of a car exposes … and Territories had implemented smokefree cars laws; as had all but two Canadian Provinces, and several countries … Select Committee report recommended this measure in 2010. 5 Studies have shown Kiwi children have high levels of …
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Public Health Solutions Series: Protecting the healthcare system: a strategic approach to reducing infectious disease impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand
… high burden was viewed by decision-makers and the public as inevitable (or even tolerable) until the Covid-19 pandemic … its borders and implementing a short, stringent lockdown. As intended, these measures largely extinguished community … disease, sexually transmitted infections such as gonorrhea and syphilis, and close-contact diseases such as …
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Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones
… The ‘worse case’ scenarios include higher storm severity (as per aspects of some previous cyclones), worse timing, … 3 and the overall economic cost is estimated to up to $14.5 billion. 4 In this Briefing we apply a relatively novel … 'near misses' for improving safety in such domains as aviation, nuclear power technology, petrochemical and …
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Insights into health system costs of living and dying in New Zealand – New study
… to death – the results for females are in Figure 2. As one example, the amount of public health Figure 2. Health … of life near death (eg, by avoiding interventions such as surgery that might only gain a few weeks or months of … to individual citizen’s health system events such as hospitalisation, lab tests and drugs. These events …
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Media release: Not all upcycled food is created equal: What is sustainable?
… benefits of upcycling surplus food and by-products, such as job creation, cost-effectiveness, and environmental … benefits of upcycled food depend on factors such as the type of waste being repurposed and the energy required … products may have a higher carbon footprint than using it as animal feed unless environmentally friendly energy sources …
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Parliamentary voting for smokefree over two decades: Implications for future progress
… criticised for: Being counter to the scientific evidence: As in arguments by NZ public health experts , 2 international experts , 3 in evidence reviews, 4 5 and health 6 and economic 7 modelling studies. The repeal … of minority groups of MPs who “crossed the floor”), were as follows: Highly supportive of smokefree progress: The …
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