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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Stemming the tide of cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … diseases and focusing on system level solutions .   The blog  is part of the  Public Health Solutions series  looking at effective … reduce demand on healthcare quickly. In a recent issue of the medical journal The Lancet , a colleague and I had the …
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  • Tax policy as a key health determinant: Reform for the Covid-19 reset

    … Tax provides revenue for the collective societal services that are critical for the prevention and management of Covid-19. Tax is the way we all share our resources in contributing to a …
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  • Media release: New report shows how regional plans could transform freshwater quality

    … A report laying out weaknesses in planning that have seen the deterioration of our high-country lakes should be … their new regional plans according to academics. In the latest Public Health Communication Centre Briefing , research fellow with the University of Otago, Marnie Prickett, looks at the …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … decisions in difficult situations so that, for example, the need to impose restrictive measures and to protect … coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Shanthi Ameratunga raises the spectre that ‘keeping it out’ could morph into ‘keeping … as well as on our public health expertise in making the difficult decisions that are needed.   We are at phase 1 …
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  • Severe weather events linked to outbreaks of crypto in Aotearoa – New study

    … Briefing we summarise findings from  our recent study into the link between severe weather events and clusters of the gastrointestinal disease cryptosporidiosis in Aotearoa … events with heavy rainfall or flooding may play a role in the development of some outbreaks of this infectious disease. …
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  • Being Bolder – Public Health Endgames for NZ

    … A disease vector successfully eliminated from NZ At the Public Health Congress in Auckland last week, one of us … public health endgames – partly to inform thinking around the tobacco endgame in New Zealand (the Smokefree Nation Goal for 2025). This blog post provides …
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  • Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive

    …   The fact we are living longer is well-known, as witnessed by discussions such as those around the retirement age and superannuation policy. But few are aware just how dramatic the changes in cause-specific mortality have been in the last …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … Summary As Aotearoa New Zealand's population ages, the number of people living with dementia is expected to double in the next 20 years – a major health and economic issue. Since age is the biggest risk factor for dementia and there’s currently no …
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  • Why a “mouth and nose” lockdown with masks might help avoid a “full body” lockdown at home

    … The concepts of an Alert Level system, household “bubbles”, … by requiring masks in public indoor spaces could reduce the risk of outbreaks (should there be border control failures) and reduce the likelihood that we would need to move back to tighter …
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  • Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research

    … Members of the public health community hold divergent views on how … tobacco should be much less available than is currently the case and propose that only retailers skilled in … findings from our recently published study that questions the wisdom of allowing ENDS to be sold by non-specialist …
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