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Being forced to leave your rental home can harm health
… Eviction, or a forced move from rental housing, is a common experience … found that eviction can harm health through causing stress and grief, and precipitating a move into homeless or to a risky housing …
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Expansion of “green zones” may provide a chance for the global eradication of COVID-19
… at the global level). Here we consider the advantages and the challenges, but ultimately suggest consideration of … with large land borders such as China and Vietnam [1]. Secondly, effective vaccines were deployed more rapidly … the risks of more dangerous variants emerging in humans or from animal reservoirs. The costs of COVID-19 eradication …
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Carcinogen exposure in Aotearoa workplaces is unacceptably high
… which New Zealanders experience cancer-causing substances and other exposures in their workplace. The survey, released … a third of hospitalisations due to work-related disease. 1 A relevant caveat is that these figures are largely based … to humans; Group 2B : possibly carcinogenic to humans; or Group 3 : not classifiable. Not only do we need to have …
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Regulation of alcohol marketing is needed to meet health, wellbeing and equity goals
… the report on its review of their Code for Advertising and Promotion of Alcohol. The ASA is an industry body which … being current drinkers, and 20% being hazardous drinkers. 1 The harm that results is social as well as physical and is … exposure to marketing hinders efforts to reduce drinking or to remain sober. In 2015/16 one in four NZ drinkers …
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A public health perspective on taxing harmful products
… for tax reform that will potentially improve health and lower health costs, reduce health inequalities and … carbon pricing mechanism has been widely criticised [1-4], and compares poorly to a well-designed carbon tax. Yet … costs on society that are not covered in the sales price or by the seller of the product. For example, alcohol imposes …
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How taking an evidence-informed approach can be used to prioritise interventions: The example of cardiovascular disease
… decisions about which health priorities to focus on, and how to achieve maximum health gains. In this Briefing we … and disability combined in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). 1 Stroke is ranked fifth. Both ischaemic heart disease and … of the broader category of cardiovascular disease, or CVD. Each year CVD is estimated to cause nearly 12,000 …
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Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks
… the country's resilience to long - term global risks and their intention to introduce a Global Catastrophic Risk … environment and communities requires looking to a 50- or 100-year horizon, not just the next election. Short-term … including those from nuclear war and climate change. 1 Given this background, we included questions on these …
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Preventing outbreaks of COVID-19 in NZ associated with air travel from Australia: New Modelling study of alternatives to quarantine
… infection) to NZ. We found that the combined use of exit and entry screening, two PCR tests (on days 3 and 12 in NZ), … contact tracing, reduced the risk from one outbreak every 1.7 years (no interventions) to every 29.8 years (95% … outbreak every 3.0 years for using PCR testing and masks or 3.4 years for the quarantine intervention. A full …
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Clean ups are not enough: Government policy incoherent on climate change
… climate, it is important not to simply try to maintain or return to what was. Instead, we need the Government of … greenhouse gas emissions put communities in this country and internationally at increased risk from climate change … Hawkes Bay left hundreds of homes damaged, many severely. 1 The Minister for Emergency Management, Mark Mitchell, said …
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Tobacco industry interference: Is the new Government meeting its international obligations?
… to engaging with the tobacco industry only as required and specifies any engagement with tobacco companies must be … protect citizens from the harms their products cause. 1 They have made misleading or false assertions, 2 lobbied and influenced …
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