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  • World Ventil8 Day – How do our buildings measure up?

    … importance of ventilation as a crucial part of enabling health and wellbeing. Breathing clean air is so often ignored … day indoors, the air we breathe has a direct impact on our health and wellbeing. As well as having indoor sources of … every three hours). This represents the first time in history that the agency has set a ventilation target to …
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  • Running into Trouble: COVID-19 in Japan during the Tokyo Olympics

    … the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we consider the many public health implications of the decision to hold the Olympic and … and staff themselves, and the indirect effects on global health and equity. Lessons from this event are also … were voluntary (unlike Aotearoa New Zealand [NZ] and Australia where mandatory lockdowns have been used for …
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  • Potential impact of an Omicron outbreak: A look at the IHME modelling for NZ

    … variant outbreak of Covid-19 in NZ by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. This work suggests that in an … we look at the results of modelling by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of … period of “extreme stress” for ICUs is a bit shorter for Australia, presumably due to higher ICU bed capacity per …
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  • Action needed to halt New Zealand’s obesity epidemic: Themes from Big Food Symposium

    … International and national public health experts and delegates met on Monday this week to … initiative recently announced by the Minister of Health, they stress the critical need to focus on upstream … controls on loan sharks such as a cap on loan rates as in Australia,(15) and providing fruit and vegetable discount …
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  • Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking

    … environment, strengths we can build on. Consider the health data.  All mortality and hospitalisation events, … and so on, can be linked anonymously through the National Health Index number (unique patient identifier).  Moreover, … centralized system governed and managed by StatsNZ. In Australia, there are multiple state and federal based data …
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  • The Smokefree legislation is evidence-based, removing it is not

    … continues to cost thousands of lives and millions of health care dollars. Prime Minister Luxon could yet display … time, as smoking prevalence falls, the number of lives and health care costs saved, will increase greatly. However, … would recognise that the smokefree legislation will reduce health costs from smoking-related diseases and improve worker …
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  • Covid-19 Case-Fatality Risk & Infection-Fatality Risk – important measures to help guide the pandemic response

    … who have used elimination approaches in the past, such as Australia, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The cumulative … previously , NZ has managed through a range of public health   measures  to maintain a relatively low Covid-19 … (further supported in a May 2022 Report by the World Health Organization [WHO]). In this blog, we briefly look at …
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  • Improving the health of our children: Project Energize bang for the health $

    … in which she overviews the recent Budget from a child health perspective, and then lays out the case and evidence f … and exercise more. This is modelled on the Australian Health Together Victoria Programme which encompasses more … – Project Energize . Funded by the Waikato District Health Board (DHB) and delivered by a team of Energizers with …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … Tiriti o Waitangi the Government is obliged to protect the health and wellbeing of Māori. It is further obligated under … evident for women aged 15 to 24 years. In the 2015/16 NZ Health Survey 34% of Māori in this group smoke compared with … knows what it’s doing! The big tobacco companies have a “history of factual misrepresentations, strategic use of …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’

    … But fatalities are just one aspect of the wider harm to health and wellbeing from Gabrielle – which includes impacts … lead to a sustained loss of life over months or years. The history and epidemiology of Aotearoa NZ’s mass fatalities … extreme weather event on record for Aotearoa NZ in insurance claims terms , with total damages estimated to be …
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