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Strengthening Omicron mitigation strategies in Early Childhood Education settings
… preschool children from two years of age, the World Health Organization currently does not recommend masking … ventilation While the Ministry of Education is providing information to ECEs about how to measure and improve … in outdoor settings has a multitude of benefits for health and development, and should be encouraged as much as …
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Smoking prevalence and trends: important findings from the 2023-24 New Zealand Health Survey
… Summary New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2023/2024 were released on 19 … on smoking prevalence from the 2023/24 New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS). The NZHS is an annual nationally … presented in this article are available on the Ministry of Health website ) . Overall smoking prevalence trends Daily …
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Media release: Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable
… global efforts to improve road safety according to public health experts. The increase in speed limits in New Zealand’s … and others in the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . The Government has based the … Otago says this approach fails to consider wider public health impacts, such as discouraging people from walking and …
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More than 147km – the transformative potential of the Wellington bike network plan
… reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport, improve health through increased physical activity, reduce air … of other cities in NZ. International evidence on the association between the extent of cycleways and the … cycling means less greenhouse gas emissions and more health benefits. More people cycling also makes cycling safer …
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Media release: Youth vaping -The implications of addiction
… negative impacts on their wellbeing, warn public health and addiction experts. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, University of Otago ASPIRE … The debate around vaping has generally focused on harm to health but nicotine addiction has wider implications for …
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Market deregulation → ↑ fast food consumption → ↑ obesity. Clever international study that includes NZ data
… A clever study just published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization has analyzed how changes in fast food … figure immediately gives a strong impression of a robust association. Next, the authors undertook something called … impact of chronic disease burdens on the tax-payer funded health system. So what are some of the intervention options …
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Media release: What can we do to reduce the number of babies dying before, during or soon after birth?
… released recently. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, Dr Rose Elder and co-authors … prevention, optimisation and preparation in the management of preterm birth would lower neonatal and … other measures including the recognition and treatment of health issues that contribute to preterm birth, screening for …
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Will regular tobacco tax increases get NZ to the tobacco endgame?
… Image from a World Health Organization poster In a modelling study we just … in funding other aspects of tobacco control and/or to fund health services. An extra plus is that the weight of evidence … suggests that tobacco tax increases contribute to reducing health inequalities (for 2 recent systematic reviews see here …
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The science is certain: masks work. Policy and practice must support their use
… in many Asian jurisdictions. This gap in our public health protections is seriously undermining our readiness for … requires actions by Government, researchers, and public health decision-makers: Implementing a mask policy to improve … difficulties inclusively and well. Alongside this information there needs to be generalised and …
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“Nudging” to improve QR scanning and mask wearing to protect us all during a pandemic
… elimination strategy is the rapid identification and then management of any COVID-19 cases arising from border system … others by doing the “right thing”, or that provides new information about why these behaviours are important. … during the COVID pandemic? Currently, the Ministry of Health (MOH) recommends that QR Code posters are printed in …
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