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  • The case for a NZ-Australia Pandemic Cooperation Agreement

    … nations could maximise their capacity to best protect the health and wellbeing of their populations from future … Joint efforts in diagnostic-test development would ensure access to accurate and scalable testing and genomic pathogen … face criticism or reputation loss from the international community and their international trading partners. …
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  • New report shows how regional plans could transform freshwater quality

    … plans have broad ecological, cultural, economic, and human health importance and, if the report’s findings are well … restoring or protecting its health and achieving other community goals (like safe swimming, gathering mahinga kai or … lakes were not monitored or controlled. Transparency and access to regulatory data was also not always adequate to …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … Providing equity of access for assisted dying without equity of access to … The objective of the Crown providing funding for health practitioners to deliver assisted dying services is to … is for assisted dying to be available as nearly all other community services, partially-funded under the existing …
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  • Fast-track Bill puts NZ on wrong track, threatening public health

    … serious and intergenerational threats to public health.  Here we focus on the implications of the Bill for our environment and the consequences this has for our health and wellbeing. The Fast-track Approvals Bill has been … capital on which the economy depends”. 7   With human health intrinsically linked to environmental health, the …
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  • Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts

    … Government can take immediate action to reduce this joint health and economic burden by improving Covid vaccination … and coverage and intensifying interventions that reduce community spread of Covid-19, including improvements in … to work full-time or at all is common : In a large UK community cohort study, 3 participants currently reporting …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Taxes to protect health and reduce inequity

    … consideration of other polluter pays taxes to protect health and the environment. The Election 2023 Public Health Survey In the lead up to the 2023 General Election, … early childhood education, subsidised public transport and access to other basic services. Nevertheless , the following …
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  • Only eight more years to go to 2025: Time for the NZ Government to step up its tobacco endgame

    … could achieve NZ’s Smokefree goal, deliver large health gains and cost-savings, and could largely reduce the ethnic gap in tobacco-related health inequalities. In 2011, prompted by the Māori Affairs … strategies on future smoking prevalence, population health and health system costs (and the timing thereof). Such …
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  • Food and beverage taxes for a healthier diet: The Pacific experience

    … on chronic disease burdens. In response, the World Health Organization recommends fiscal policies like taxes on … those aged 18 and over (perhaps initially for those with a community service card), subsidising and improving access to fruit and vegetables in high deprivation …
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  • Thoughts on NZ Adopting an Aussie Community Health Programme … and Forthcoming Nutrition Policy Events

    … Blakely and Associate Professor Nick Wilson Late last year Health Minister Tony Ryall visited Victoria, Australia , to … is adopting? In short, solid health promotion at the community-level, right out of the Ottawa Charter top drawer – …              … Thoughts on NZ Adopting an Aussie Community Health Programme … and Forthcoming Nutrition Policy …
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  • A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data

    … Everyone knows that socio-economic inequalities in health exist – in recent times. But one thing we do not know … troops varied by occupational class  What we know about health inequalities by socio-economic position in NZ … and employment opportunities for Māori, improving access to housing, and supporting improving Māori health. …
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