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  • Severe domestic squalor in Aotearoa New Zealand: A preliminary survey

    … Summary A preliminary survey of local Age Concerns and district and city councils … squalor? In every community there is a small subset of people who live in homes so unclean, messy, and unhygienic … Territorial Authorities) and make recommendations on best practice service delivery based on the feedback from …
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  • Tobacco industry interference: Is the new Government meeting its international obligations?

    … narratives to oppose evidence-based policies. Use of these narratives by members of the coalition Government makes it timely to remind … smokefree generation policy would also be unworkable in practice.” Even more importantly, these examples raise …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … But to do so means understanding the maths and ethics of both these strategies. In this blog we adapt our work for … ratcheting up its control measures to deal with the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in our view at least, there is … piece published in The Conversation by Prof John Daley of the Grattan Institute, he argues that there is a need in …
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  • Severe weather events linked to outbreaks of crypto in Aotearoa – New study

    … into the link between severe weather events and clusters of the gastrointestinal disease cryptosporidiosis in Aotearoa … rainfall or flooding may play a role in the development of some outbreaks of this infectious disease. This finding is … infection rates in humans. Implications for policy and practice More research is needed in NZ to better understand …
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  • Digesting things further: High dietary salt intakes are almost certainly problematic

    … concerns regarding other aspects). Here we update some of our thinking and conclude that the totality of the available evidence is sufficient for health authorities to continue taking a range of evidence-based actions to reduce the hazard of high salt …
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  • World Ventil8 Day – How do our buildings measure up?

    … is World Ventil8 Day. This day aims to raise awareness of the importance of ventilation as a crucial part of … fans to remove moisture and pollutants. The NZ Building Code lags behind other comparable countries, with new … health, health is not placed at front and centre of the Code. The NZ Building Code has minimum requirements for …
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  • A public health perspective on taxing harmful products

    … has set up a Tax Working Group to consider reforms of the tax system. In this blog we briefly discuss some of the opportunities for tax reform that will potentially … and enhance environmental sustainability. Regular reviews of the tax system are important given that taxation has a …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … Authority (EPA) chose not to accept the assessment of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) … attempt to justify what happened gives a muddled account of risk assessment, and misrepresents her own Authority’s … as the EPA is about to undertake an expanded review of hazardous substances in New Zealand. Figure 1: 3D …
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  • Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options?

    … a replacement for tobacco smoking, will improve the health of the NZ population. The estimated health gain is about the … cancer screening programme. Considering all sources of uncertainty, our study supports cautious liberalisation of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes – as NZ is doing. In this …
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  • Can pandemic threats justify border closure for island nations like NZ?

    … Countries prepare for future pandemic risks because of pandemic influenza, novel emerging infectious agents and … published in a journal, we explored the costs and benefits of complete border closure in NZ in response to new pandemic … some very severe pandemic scenarios where rapid closure of NZ’s border could provide overall societal benefit – even …
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