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  • A pandemic that won’t go away – as Covid enters its 5th year, NZ needs a realistic strategy

    … accordingly. Evolving variants are driving ongoing waves of infection, prolonging the pandemic's impact. It remains a leading cause of hospitalisation and death, particularly in older … with influenza and other respiratory infections. The core of this strategy is high vaccine coverage, testing and …
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  • Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory

    … Housing and Health Research Programme at the University of Otago Wellington, we are urging the Electricity Authority … mandatory to protect health. A new report shows up to 55% of residential consumers are not protected by the Guidelines on disconnection. Critically, almost a quarter of Medically Dependent Consumers who rely on electricity at …
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  • Public health priorities in this election year

    … Public Health Priorities Series, which highlights a range of public health challenges linked by a need for … illustrates what can be achieved by the wonderful fusion of public health evidence and progressive Government policy.  … change our framing towards long-term thinking in all areas of policy making.  Our children and future generations will …
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  • Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking

    … NZ has some key barriers to overcome to make the best use of that data – most importantly, data systems infrastructure … world leaders in many ways, with the IDI gaining a range of international interest from other governments wishing to … work, education and training, justice, corrections, social development, immigration, housing, people and communities and …
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  • New proposals to limit youth vaping from Labour: Do they go far enough?

    … within existing legislation, and reducing the visibility of vaping products. In this briefing, we review vaping … estimate disguises troubling inequities: more than 20% of Y10 Māori students, and over 25% of Y10 young Māori females reported daily vaping. The …
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  • Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected

    … gas emissions. The evidence suggests that the benefits of estimated time savings are overstated and don’t always improve economic productivity. The health impacts of raising speed limits are likely to be significant and … authorities have reduced urban speed limits across many of our cities, and expressed strong support for continuing …
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  • Does change in income and deprivation change your smoking risk? Yes, but in different directions.

    … groups are more likely to smoke.  But why?  Is it because of things like less education or more deprivation actually … moving from a neighbourhood with the least deprived fifth of New Zealanders to the most deprived fifth increased someone’s odds or chance of smoking by a large 83%. This increase in your chances of …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Good health in childhood is vital for lifelong wellbeing: time for a preventive approach

    … action on childhood immunisation .   This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective … health system struggled with persistently high rates of preventable hospitalisations, ill-health, and large health … too low to provide a strong foundation for healthy development. Children need adequate living standards to …
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  • BMI keeps on going up – and reflections on the Diabesity Symposium

    … increase in BMI is linear, relentless increasing; no sign of a plateau, yet. Given this trend, The Diabesity Crisis symposium just held in Auckland, under the auspices of the Better Start and Healthier Lives National Science … forthcoming research and policy priorities? The Ministry of Health has a very user friendly tool for accessing Health …
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  • Modifying homes to prevent falls is very cost-effective: New NZ study

    … doing in response to the evidence.   The NZ Burden of Disease Study (NZBDS) reported that falls cause 10% of all the injury-related health loss in this country – in … aged 65 years or over, falls are the most common cause of injury-related health loss, and responsible for …
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