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PHCC monthly Newsletter: August 2024
… Read the latest from the PHCC in our August newsletter . Over the last month, … of heated tobacco products. Authors have also explored how politicians have voted on smokefree legislation over the last 20 years. Other Briefings have looked at how effective our Covid-19 vaccine programme is, made …
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PHCC monthly Newsletter: September 2024
… Read the latest from the PHCC in our September newsletter . The Briefings … we know about preventing dementia and Long Covid, actions to improve maternal and infant health, the long-term health … tobacco plus reducing our greenhouse gases and responding to the threat of climate change. … PHCC monthly …
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In the news: Experts pitch 'Swiss cheese model' for gun laws
… Yasbek explained the necessity for a multilayered approach to firearms law to reduce gun-related harms on 13 February 2025. The interview was in response to our Briefing - Good firearms law needs multiple defensive …
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In the news: PHCC launch
… Professor Michael Baker explained the Centre aims to improve health, equity and the environment through better … with New Zealand research. Epidemiologist Michael Baker to head new public health communication project RNZ's Morning …
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In the news: Call for CO2 monitors for early childhood centres featured
… (ECEs). As part of a bigger article on the early start to the flu season, Dr Jonathan Jarman was interviewed about the study and the call for CO2 metres to be freely supplied to all ECEs. … In the news: Call for CO2 monitors for early …
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In the news: Free school lunch programme should be expanded
… Professor Boyd Swinburn talked to the Panel on RNZ about the cost-of-healthy- food crisis in … Expanding Ka Ora, Ka Ako is ‘bread and butter’ action to alleviate the cost-of-healthy-food crisis which describes how the doubling of the free school lunch programme can help …
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In the news: Serious water infrastructure funding needed - researchers say
… interviewed on RNZ’s Morning Report on 26 May in relation to our Briefing - Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change . Marnie also talked about the Briefing …
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In the news: PHCC co-hosts political panel on prevention
… about that in our Briefing . Stuff's Rachel Thomas spoke to public health experts after the panel to gauge reaction for her article, Reti riles health minister with his pledge to axe Māori Health Authority . The fresh insight into …
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In the news: Food poverty for NZ teens creates achievement lag of up to four years
… on well-being show students who are missing meals are two to four years behind their peers in their PISA results. … poverty for NZ teens creating an achievement lag of up to four years . … In the news: Food poverty for NZ teens creates achievement lag of up to four years …
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In the news: Winter jump in deaths expected
… biggest drivers remain. “The things that are more likely to kill people in winter, compared to other seasons, are respiratory illnesses,” said study … influenza – pre-Covid modelling attributed the flu to 500 deaths in New Zealand each year – and others like …
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