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  • COVID-19 hospitalisation peaks in Australian States since Omicron emerged: potential relevance to Aotearoa NZ

    … by South African  scientists. By early December 2021 , community cases of the Omicron variant were already confirmed … 2021. This surge has led to extreme stress on the health system , although it appears that the Omicron wave may … populations, and consider providing third (booster) dose access to 12-17 year olds and reducing the interval between …
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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 … train derailment, weather-related lack of health care access, collapsing bridge 4 In some cases, details about the …
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  • Human health impacts of plastic exposure – an evolving evidence base

    … Summary The evidence for harm to human health caused by plastic has grown in the last five years, … achieve a comprehensive response to the environmental and health threats from plastics. Introduction In 2019, the … discussion of some concerns expressed by the scientific community on the methodological approaches used, and quality …
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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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  • Taxes on fizzy drinks in NZ: preventing premature deaths and raising funds for health

    … A task of public health research is to quantify the health impact of interventions that are upstream and are … and smart governments can act now to alter that future.  Community-based health promotion, such as the Healthy …
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  • Smartphone apps for weight loss and smoking cessation

    … that tried to answer that question from a NZ public health perspective. In this blog we discuss what we found and … ‘what next’ for using these new technological tools for health research and promotion in NZ. In NZ, tobacco use and … a secure web-database that all health professionals could access as they treated the person. Such an app ideally could …
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  • Nourishing futures: How micronutrients improve pregnancy outcomes, reduce healthcare costs

    … pregnant wāhine in Aotearoa use them, often due to infant health concerns. Poor nutrition during pregnancy is linked to … 6 7 Psychotherapy is a recommended treatment, but access barriers like cost, time, and stigma often prevent its … no policies in place in Aotearoa for easy and affordable access to nutritious kai in pregnancy. Adopting such policies …
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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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  • Progress toward Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 – how might tobacco retail restrictions contribute?

    … We have just published research on the health gains and cost-savings from various legally mandated … research stream have estimated the health effects of access to features of the built environment, including access to: alcohol outlets and harmful drinking (1), parks …
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  • New study on going smokefree – major economic gains for NZ society with manageable costs for government

    … government plans to repeal). In addition to immense health gains identified previously, the new study found that … perversely relying on tobacco tax. Given both the major health and economic gains to NZ citizens from this smokefree … Previous work indicated the very large potential health benefits (thousands of premature deaths prevented), …
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