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  • The Smokefree Generation: A core measure in New Zealand’s endgame strategy

    … Aotearoa New Zealand’s Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill … the inequities that delayed implementation would sustain.[1] Endgames require high-impact measures to catalyse declines … that measures restricting tobacco sales to people aged 21 or over) have done. Studies examining the impact of T21 …
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  • Potential new regulatory options for e-cigarettes/ANDS in NZ

    … E-cigarette usage is growing in NZ and around the world but the scientific evidence-base … could help clarify.   Globally the market for e-cigarettes or alternative nicotine delivery systems (ANDS) is highly … rapidly evolving (with numerous different product types (1) including non-electronic forms). Alongside dedicated …
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  • Health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 response: NZ compared to OECD countries

    … with the IMF predictions for GDP in 2020 overall being -6.1% for NZ and -6.3% for the OECD. Nevertheless, a fuller accounting of … where long-term illness may occur even in people with mild or no symptoms during their initial infection; 11 and (iii) …
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  • Flooding, public health – and the need for more emphasis on prevention

    … should make us think about the adverse public health and economic impacts. This blog post considers these issues, … and 2004 averaged $17 million per year (2004 dollars) (1). Furthermore, government expenditure on civil defence … point as recommended, only 4% maintained boiling water or bottled water use for the necessary nine-week period (5). …
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  • Health co-benefits need to be adequately considered in the Climate Change Commission’s final advice

    … which currently predict a reduction in GDP of 0.2-1.0% in 2035 and 0.3-0.7% in 2050. Thus, the Commission’s final advice … potential health co-benefits which are discussed or, in some cases, omitted from the Commission’s final …
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  • Intensifying Covid-19 Control Measures: 5 Measures for Faster Elimination and 5 Measures to Prevent Future outbreaks

    … in Auckland still poses risks to health, social wellbeing and the economy. There is a need for accelerated efforts to … “long Covid” similar to chronic fatigue syndrome [1]. Five critical measures to regain Covid-19 elimination … of all attendees and visitors to hospitals on entry or weekly for regular visitors. There is also a need to …
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  • NZ’s “Team of 5 million” has achieved the lowest COVID-19 death rate in the OECD – but there are still gaps in our pandemic response

    … rate from the COVID-19 pandemic out of 37 OECD countries and appears to be the only one to succeed with elimination at … domestic cases for over two weeks (ie, none since 2 July [1], as per 17 July).   The next most important pandemic … . There is obvious potential to learn from any breaches or near misses here and overseas. For example, one potential …
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  • Aotearoa New Zealand’s unhealthy food environment needs more policy action

    … environment due to inaction from successive Governments and calls for this to change. Food environments influence the … 2014. Our first comprehensive assessment from 2014 to 2017 1 concluded that the food environment in NZ is largely … at all and it is worrying that each government, left or right, is doing so little about obesity and healthy …
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  • Money down the drain: The high cost of leaking water pipes

    … infrastructure poses a threat to this basic necessity and wastes precious funds. In regions where water is metered … for contaminants to enter the system. As such “broken or leaking water mains” can cause waterborne disease … outbreaks (as reviewed for the United States setting 1 ). One such outbreak from broken water mains resulted in …
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  • Covid-19: A planetary disease

    … on the underlying environmental causes of Covid-19 (Covid) and the role of international law in tackling both Covid and … infected us did not come to us; we went to seek them out.’ 1 Human beings have suffered from diseases arising from … of the percentage of zoonotic diseases in relation to new or re-emerging infectious diseases vary between 65% to nearly …
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