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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … policy , a third key measure in the Smokefree Bill, as its impact will be more long term.   This blog is part of … disease and so health service utilisation and costs fall as smoking prevalence declines. Hence, achieving the Smokefree Aotearoa goal of below 5% smoking prevalence among all peoples will substantially …
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  • Wellbeing in public housing vs. private rentals: Quality and security make the difference

    … than 24 thousand households in Aotearoa NZ are assessed as being in serious housing need. Many of these households … according to two measures of subjective wellbeing: the WHO-5 mental wellbeing scale and an evaluative measure of life … eligible for the income-related rent subsidy.    Second, as length of tenure increases, the divergence in wellbeing …
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  • Despite improved WHO regulations, the world remains ill-prepared for the next pandemic

    … these changes are insufficient on their own. Especially as the risk of another pandemic like Covid-19 is growing.  … greater preparedness, and additional competencies such as risk communication and managing misinformation and … giving time to roll out vaccines and other interventions. 5 Such measures protected both high-income islands (Aotearoa …
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  • Using the CovidCard to enhance protection from COVID-19 at the NZ border

    … type of approach is already used in hospitals in Singapore as part of epidemic response protocols (Tan et al, 2020). … CovidCard data would supplement existing processes – such as genomic testing – but it is likely to greatly reduce the … These tools include electronic bracelets for guests (as in Hong Kong) and digital technologies that might detect …
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  • Glass half full: Alcohol’s health benefits for cardiovascular disease still controversial, and likely vary by context

    … with risk of death is shown below in our stylised graph as the blue line. Abstinence confers medium risk of death, … loss of 54,000 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs; 5.6% of health loss from all causes). However, alcohol use … coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease (CVD), as expected. And there is serious harm from high alcohol …
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  • Public health and Budget 2024

    … health and future generations remains crucial, even as the budget constraints complicate their efforts. Budget 2024 was very much about tax cuts (as promised in the 2023 general election), funded by spending … household will receive an income tax cut worth around 0.5% while a high income earner more like 2%. These are …
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  • Media release: Plugging the gap: Aotearoa’s piped water loss far worse than global leaders

    … at 22% are far worse than leading European countries such as the Netherlands at 5% and Germany at 6%. “We also compared countries using the … has been recent progress in managing leaks in places such as beleaguered Wellington and also that nearly three-quarters …
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  • Introducing the Public Health Solutions Blog Series

    … system.  The health system is in unprecedented waters. As one author put it “the rules of engagement” underpinning … Covid-19 has fueled long-term demand on health services as a result of deferred routine care and long covid (which … almost every high-income country is in the same situation as us, fighting over the same international pool of health …
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  • Disposable vapes: An emerging environmental health threat

    … from single-use disposable vaping devices is emerging as an environmental and public health threat globally and in …   Although unlikely to help reduce smoking prevalence to 5% or below by the end of 2025 , 4 vapes remain integral to NZ’s tobacco-control strategy as an effective smoking cessation tool. 5,6 and they were a …
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  • Upgrade of NZ’s COVID-19 Alert Levels Needed to Help Regain NZ’s Elimination Status

    … transmission of the virus (eg, China, Taiwan, Fiji and 5 Australian States/Territories – including the island of … site showing graphs of declining new daily cases). As such, these jurisdictions can provide encouragement that a … the pandemic. Nevertheless, it needs further refinements as we suggest below. It should be reviewed and revised …
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