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  • Urgent measures needed to allow the safe re-opening of Auckland schools

    … to further transmission of COVID-19, with devastating health and wellbeing outcomes for children, young people and … and parental stress. We request that the Ministries of Health and Education urgently prepare and disseminate clear … required for younger children. 8. Clarification of public health responses and the approach to identification and …
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  • Fast-track Approvals Bill a threat to public health, warn researchers

    … Public health researchers are raising concerns over the implications … protections for the environment and threatening public health. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, researchers highlight the …
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  • Is funding Euthanasia a health priority for Aotearoa New Zealand: Part 2?

    … The objective of the Crown providing funding for health practitioners to deliver assisted dying services is to … objective is that: CA1 Entitlement to Make a Claim b. the health practitioner must not: i. be providing the assisted … other services provided in General Practice and Specialist Private Practice in that it is fully-funded by Government. …
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  • Another Havelock North? Govt undoing protections for drinking water safety

    … interests and other activities that could harm people’s health through contaminated, or otherwise degraded, drinking … drinking water each year. 4   As well as human health costs, Havelock North’s outbreak was estimated to have … was especially clear that communities on smaller or private supplies should not be at greater risk and that …
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  • Energy poverty: The lowest-income households pay more in Aotearoa

    … their energy needs and as a result experience negative health and wellbeing consequences from cold housing.  It is … to meet their needs at home, remains a critical public health concern. The health consequences of energy poverty cost the health system …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … Jennie Connor, University of Otago, researches the public health impacts of alcohol policy in NZ   Last month Justice … minimum price policy on alcohol prevents harm (and reduces health inequalities) appears to be stronger than Collins … in terms of quality-adjusted life-years.” In the public health field, we seldom see policy packages that have such a …
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  • Social Marketing for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Reminding, Reinforcing, and Changing Social Norms

    … social norms, which also support long-term improvements in health outcomes. In this blog, we consider the role of social … policy measures. Third, in line with the Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion, social marketing may help build supportive … social marketing’s potential contribution to public health outcomes, NZ’s expenditure on smokefree social …
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  • Digesting things further: High dietary salt intakes are almost certainly problematic

    … We recently did a blog post on dietary salt and health , particularly with regard to a new large prospective … the totality of the available evidence is sufficient for health authorities to continue taking a range of … also had the highest: LDL levels, prevalence of a history of CVD, prevalence of diabetes, alcohol intake and …
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  • Limiting the size of single serve sugary drinks: New NZ study on health and cost impacts

    … Through these two mechanisms we predicted the resulting health gains in quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) and health system costs over the remaining life course of the NZ … https://league-table.shinyapps.io/bode3/ (particularly for Australia, but with a growing number of NZ studies of NZ …
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  • Beyond unhelpful dichotomies: a co-regulatory approach to protecting children from junk food marketing

    … The Health Minister is currently deciding how to best address … or no true ‘regulation’ (6,7). In fact, many public and private stakeholders see great potential for co-regulation to … were battling for either voluntary or mandatory FoPL. In Australia, the Government had enough of this head banging and …
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