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  • A preventable measles epidemic: Lessons for reforming public health in NZ

    … that can continue to improve the length and quality of people’s lives and the systems that are needed to protect us … rather than splitting and distributing capacity across many different national organisations. Multiple systems are … goal and indeed it still lacks an official action plan on how to achieve it, nine years after the goal was adopted [ 15 …
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  • Can oral tobacco and nicotine products help people to stop smoking?

    … Summary Cabinet has approved in principle the sale of oral tobacco products (e.g. snus) and oral nicotine … New Zealand. These products could potentially help people to stop smoking by providing a source of nicotine that … conducted independently of the tobacco industry. Currently many studies of novel nicotine products have industry funding …
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  • Bioethicists, scientists and politicians; decision-making in a pandemic

    … New Zealand has come through the pandemic well. The role of political leadership and scientific input has been well … we, in Aotearoa/NZ, think is the right thing to do and how is the right way to do it. It produced two tables one … who are ultimately responsible for the decisions. Many decisions are delegated to the organisations but under …
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  • What does the EY Tobacco Excise Tax Evaluation Report mean for reaching the Smokefree 2025 Goal?

    … on the Ernst and Young (EY) report to the Ministry of Health, which evaluated tobacco excise tax increases as a … including use of community intelligence and research into how effective sustained increases are and what adverse … is used to support smokers to quit or prevent young people from starting (ITC data [11]). Although the Report …
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  • The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review

    … published article on the mortality and morbidity impacts of the First World War on the NZ population. While much is … died on 7 November 1918, one hundred years ago this year of writing. They were Donald Stewart Kennedy (see photo … military personnel kept dying from war-related causes for many years after the end of the war. Such deaths were because …
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  • Seven decades of severe weather events in Aotearoa New Zealand: What are the human health impacts?

    … timeframe, there were 498 severe weather events recorded, of which 185 were linked with either injuries or deaths. In total, the deaths of 362 people were reported, and the most common cause of death was … for the period 1950-2022 in NZ 1 The totals given for each impact represent the number of events for which the …
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  • Queenstown outbreak highlights future challenges for clean drinking water

    … findings, there needs to be more public discussion on how to keep communities’ drinking water safe and more … of Queenstown and Frankton. The warning came after several people were diagnosed with cryptosporidiosis; a …  buffers to help reduce the prevalence of pathogens in many waterways.” Improving the treatment of drinking water …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … product : the cigarillo “Chesterfield Leaf”, has led many to ask how launching a cheaper cigarette-like product fits with … the American public, including smokers and the  young people they avidly sought as ‘replacement smokers,’ about the …
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  • Glass half full: Alcohol’s health benefits for cardiovascular disease still controversial, and likely vary by context

    … on population health, or death rates here, depends also on how the population is distributed by alcohol consumption – … up’ of the population distribution such that more people are in the moderate alcohol consumption groups. … hold for alcohol-related cancers, of which there are many (e.g. esophageal and breast cancer), but rather increase …
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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … As part of influenza pandemic readiness, NZ has a 32 million dollar … The Cochrane reviewers also noted that there were many limitations with the trials they reviewed: “Inadequate … of NZ doing stockpiling might now be outdated). How do any of the above cost-effectiveness estimates compare …
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