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  • NZ’s smart use of big data: Employment & income impacts of selected health conditions

    … strides in the smart use of big data to provide better health information for decision-makers. Here we look at a … that considers the employment and income effects of eight health conditions. Such information could ultimately inform … staff, Sylvia Dixon (1). The study examined the impact of health conditions on the employment rates and incomes of …
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  • Potential for an avian influenza pandemic: Time for NZ to ramp up preparedness

    … pandemic responses, notably the effective use of public health and social measures (PHSM) to delay entry and … prevention and control (IPC) equipment. And strengthen One Health approaches to reduce the risk of influenza emergence … and wildlife and in arriving travellers.  Public health authorities in NZ need to update the national pandemic …
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  • Seven decades of severe weather events in Aotearoa New Zealand: What are the human health impacts?

    … blog, we summarise our recent report that explores the health impacts from severe weather events, such as floods and … the most common cause of death was boating accidents. The health consequences of severe weather could increase with … lines, train derailment, weather-related lack of health care access, collapsing bridge 4 In some cases, details about …
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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 … cooperation and treaties (e.g., the International Health Regulations [IHR]), are vital tools to mitigate the … as they are both island nations, have similar public health systems, economic ties, and numerous existing …
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  • Potential health co-benefits from eradicating rats, stoats and possums in NZ towns and cities

    … nationally). But what about the spin-offs for public health? This blog starts to explore this issue and provisionally concludes that there are many potential health benefits from the eradication or near-complete control … eradication of possums, rats and stoats by 2050 (4). Health benefits of eradicating these pests in NZ towns and …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Treaty means for public health. Despite the partial exemption of investor-state … between agreements such as the TPP and public health in general are left untouched.   The Trans Pacific … a ‘tobacco carve-out’, and a ‘win’ for tobacco and global health [1]. The effort that was necessary to achieve the …
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  • Protecting fresh waterways in Aotearoa/NZ: The strong Public Health case

    … in water; (3) avoiding algal blooms that are hazardous to health; (4) protecting mahinga kai uses (cultural importance … In this blog we briefly consider these issues and why health workers and agencies should now do submissions on … this document, we briefly review in this blog the public health case for waterways protection. 1) Protecting water …
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  • NZ compares well with other OECD countries in health & other areas: But scope for improvements

    … also various ways we could make further improvements in health, safety and the environment. The good news is that … well in the well-being domain ( see previous Public Health Expert blog ). Higher self-reported health (2/36): … are quite good predictors of people’s future health care use). Higher life expectancy (12/36): In NZ it is 81 …
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  • The smokefree policies of political parties: Do they care about people who smoke?

    … importance. Smokers are more vulnerable to many harmful health effects, including severe effects from the virus. … a huge range of respiratory, cardiovascular and other health conditions and is also likely to make people less … funding and attention, compared to hospitals and primary care services for individuals. 10 The lack of priority for …
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  • Flooding, public health – and the need for more emphasis on prevention

    … New Zealand should make us think about the adverse public health and economic impacts. This blog post considers these … by central and local government so as to better reduce the health and economic impacts of flooding disasters.   The … this at $121 million (2). What are the direct and indirect health impacts of floods? There is a modest direct death toll …
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