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Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’
… 1900. But fatalities are just one aspect of the wider harm to health and wellbeing from Gabrielle – which includes … in the context of these other events, and reflect on how we, as a country, might avoid the list getting longer. … are some key potential measures: A major shift to long-term thinking by governments with the appropriate …
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What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective
… scenarios that can help us decide what’s the right risk to tolerate. As Australia inches up its vaccine rollout , … 4 when life becomes relatively normal. It’s the transition to Phase 2 that’s critical – as it’s supposedly underpinned … of the virus. During Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19 in 2020, our team created an agent-based model which …
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The case for banning cigarette filters
… measures set out, the plan includes proposals to “make smoked tobacco products less addictive and less … the appeal and addictiveness of smoked tobacco products. How did filters become an integral component of cigarettes? … filters would leave unaddressed both the decades-long consumer fraud that tobacco companies’ promotion of …
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Can we manage dual use of smoking and vaping more effectively?
… Although most smokers want to quit, many of those who begin vaping continue to smoke. We … and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) [1]. In this blog, we summarise our findings and consider … due to feelings of embarrassment over their ENDS use. How can full transition to vaping be supported in NZ? Our …
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Flooding, public health – and the need for more emphasis on prevention
… Floods in Invercargill in 1984. Source: Otago Daily Times Recent … preventive action by central and local government so as to better reduce the health and economic impacts of flooding … in Europe (9), and there is also experimental work on how tree planting reduces water run-off (10). Research in NZ …
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Social advantage associated with greenhouse emissions from transport in Aotearoa
… transport greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe) is essential to meet climate targets and prevent the adverse health and other consequences of climate change. However, we need to make sure emissions reductions are fair across the … household travel survey to examine existing inequalities in household transport GHGe in Aotearoa New Zealand: this …
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Three Waters reforms are needed to protect public health and ensure changes are economically sustainable and efficient
… the fundamental problem statement justifying the reforms. In this blog, we re-focus the discussion on the critical need to reform the management of drinking water resources which is … agriculture, and awareness about the health effects from long-term exposure to water contaminants (eg, nitrate). 16,17 …
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When can COVID-19 be Declared Eliminated from NZ? New Modelling Study
… This blog details a recent modelling study we conducted. In it we estimated that it would take between 27 and 33 days of no new detected cases of COVID-19 for there to be a 95% probability of epidemic extinction in NZ (at … of epidemic extinction, the equivalent time-period was 37 to 44 days. So now the country urgently needs the Ministry of …
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Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research
… of the public health community hold divergent views on how access to vaping products or electronic nicotine delivery systems … currently the case and propose that only retailers skilled in supporting smoking cessation should sell ENDS. In this …
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Wellbeing in public housing vs. private rentals: Quality and security make the difference
… children whose current and future wellbeing is likely to be impaired by living in precarious housing conditions. … based on a specially commissioned survey, investigates how tenure status and housing and neighbourhood quality … by public housing tenants. Private renters who have had long-term tenure in their current house have similar …
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