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  • Vaping prevalence and trends: Important findings from 2023-24 NZ Health Survey

    … Summary New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2023/2024 have been released. … great concern among parents, communities and schools, and health workers. Successive governments have proposed measures … Health Survey (NZHS). An accompanying Briefing provides information on smoking prevalence . 1 Key findings Population …
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  • Improving ventilation in schools: a key protection against Covid-19 outbreaks and an enduring legacy for healthier learning

    … an increasing focus on the impact it is having on child health and wellbeing. Countries across the world are … to reduce transmission in schools is recommended by major health agencies such as the ECDC and CDC. 10 11 Ventilation … the 2017 indoor air guidelines for schools with updated information about preventing airborne transmission of …
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  • Smokefree outdoor areas: A missing part of Government’s new Smokefree 2025 proposals

    … implemented, these proposals could lead to major health gains, health system cost savings and reducing the unequal health burdens that Māori, Pasifika and low-income New …
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  • The Smokefree Generation: Perspectives from young people

    … sales of smoked tobacco products. Although supported by health researchers, we know little about how young people – … benefits, with the SFG delivering around 5.6 times the health gain per capita to Māori relative to non-Māori, due … claimed the SFG amounts to prohibition; British American Tobacco stated the SFG removed young people’s “ …
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  • Eliminate the pandemic virus causing COVID-19 or risk an animal reservoir

    … has been an effective strategy for New Zealand in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic virus (SARS-CoV-2). Most … source of regular additional outbreaks. In addition to the health of animals, there is a human-centred reason why cattle … *John D Potter MBBS PhD; Professor, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington … Eliminate …
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  • High levels of CO2 found in small study of early childhood centres: Improving ventilation in the time of COVID-19

    … to both the children at the centre and also for the health and well-being of staff and helpers. This small … It was concluded that while CO 2 monitors only give information on one of the factors related to disease … the only effective way of measuring ventilation.  Public Health Services around the country consider setting up …
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  • Covid-19 Case-Fatality Risk & Infection-Fatality Risk – important measures to help guide the pandemic response

    … previously , NZ has managed through a range of public health   measures  to maintain a relatively low Covid-19 … (further supported in a May 2022 Report by the World Health Organization [WHO]). In this blog, we briefly look at … statistics during an ongoing outbreak to inform disease management and policy (as also made clear by Our World in …
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  • Evidence for free school lunches: Are they worth investing in?

    … the programme. 4 Furthermore, lunches meet Ministry of Health nutritional guidelines and provide more than 33% of … for growth and cognitive development. 5 Diet-related health outcomes include substantial mental health … the right price?) The evidence on quality measures for the management of resources (procurement, provision, …
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  • Alcohol-related harms now available on demand

    … Summary Alcohol is one of the major causes of health loss in Aotearoa NZ. It is now available at people's … that the NZ Government could enact to address this risk to health and wellbeing.    On-demand services online have been … jurisdictions from where they provide services. 1 Health policy experts have made a range of proposals …
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  • Proposed vaping regulations for NZ: Strengths and limitations

    … discuss the provisions, as summarised in the Ministry of Health’s Factsheet , and outline important questions that we … of the public, parents and teachers, as well as by public health researchers and advocates. For example, the Bill … required neither to be registered nor to provide the sales information and data that specialist vape stores will have to …
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