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  • Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’

    … Gabrielle – which includes impacts on mental health and a major economic burden to the country. Given the scale of … likely to be the highest flood event death toll since 1900 after the Kopuawhara flash flood in 1938 (21 deaths). It … those with 20+ deaths. 3 These investigations have often lead to changes in policies, safety regulations and …
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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: counterarguments to industry claims

    … tobacco companies’ interests. Introduction Achieving a substantial reduction in the number of outlets selling … proposals aim to address the glaring anomaly that allows a consumer product as deadly and addictive as tobacco, which … A Crime Prevention Group set up “to advocate for dairies after robberies increased” initially called for a complete …
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  • Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive

    … mortality have been in the last century. We are publishing a book later this year ( The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in New Zealand ; AUP) that looks … Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely are publishing a book The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in …
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  • Keeping public health on the agenda for the new government

    … highlighting evidence-informed public health solutions in a new series: Briefings to the Incoming Government . With a new government come new plans, new commitments, and new … are the health and sustainability challenges we face as a country. New ministers and policy agendas will not make …
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  • How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    … and the National Ethics Advisory Committee has released a final report [3] on Resource Allocation and Covid-19 that includes a section on vaccine prioritisation. The NZ Government has also developed a Covid-19 Vaccine Strategy [4] but without any detailed …
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  • The need for an expanded national smokefree law – just got more critical

    … A just released Judicial Review has opened up the question of … This Judicial Review was in response to an application for a review of the “Open Area Calculator” that is used to … in which the measured air pollution from tobacco smoke was often quite marked (eg, see the data in this NZ article ). …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Mental health services can’t solve a mental health crisis: public mental health priorities in Aotearoa

    … rāhui/lockdowns exacerbated mental distress for those with a history of mental illness .   Despite increased investment … as reducing demand for child health services as noted in a previous blog in this series.    Increasing physical … of addiction which require treatment, such as overdose and infection. We know the benefits of a health-based approach to …
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  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … prevalence, it should re-introduce denicotinisation, a measure supported by Health Minister Dr Shane Reti, and … Minister’s recommendation, which drew on arguments from a mystery document 1 and “ independent advice ” that did not … smoking has become more entrenched and thus requires a targeted approach. While it may seem commonsense that …
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  • Expanding the Definition of Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Mindset Change to Help Achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa

    … of the Smokefree Aotearoa Goal, this approach is often narrowly conceptualised as supporting transitions from … by  Tumisu  from  Pixabay   Public health strategies have often used the term “harm reduction” to describe approaches … to tobacco/nicotine use. Hatsukami and Carroll proposed a commonly applied conceptualisation of harm reduction in …
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  • Does change in income and deprivation change your smoking risk? Yes, but in different directions.

    … followed over several years.  We found that moving from a neighbourhood with the least deprived fifth of New … fifth increased someone’s odds or chance of smoking by a large 83%. This increase in your chances of being a smoker … to help prevent both drinking and smoking as smoking is often a complementary activity to drinking, and adopting …
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