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  • Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … Providing healthy, secure, affordable housing is essential to creating an inclusive, more equitable society. The … reminds us, short-term corner-cutting is expensive in the long run.  The public housing stock, in particular, needs to … the Public Housing Waiting List and therefore determines how many public houses there can be and who will or will not …
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  • SARS-CoV-2: A modern Greek Tragedy?

    … remains inconclusive. The WHO investigation concluded in favour of a natural origin, being satisfied that ‘asking … whatever questions we wanted’ and obtaining answers to these questions ruled out a laboratory leak. Researchers … of an Institute of Virology that is conducting work on how to modify coronaviruses so that they more easily infect …
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  • Public health and Budget 2024

    … protection, and law and order, shrinking relative to GDP over the next three years.  Public health, which requires long-term investments in areas like child poverty and housing … it doesn’t give us much detail of what will be funded and how it will be spent.  Each budget also sets allowances for …
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  • The growing burden of dementia in Aotearoa: Scope for prevention

    … the number of people living with dementia is expected to double in the next 20 years – a major health and economic issue. … dementia and there’s currently no cure, there is a need to focus on reducing risks for dementia. The Lancet …
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  • The need for a robust scientific definition for the elimination of COVID-19 from New Zealand

    … its elimination goal for COVID-19 at the country-level. In this blog we present the case for a scientific definition of elimination to help guide our national COVID-19 response. The definition … opening NZ to international tourism in the medium to long term. Indeed, similar arguments have been made for the …
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  • Evidence supports a proposed Parliamentary Bill to reduce harm from alcohol sponsorship of sport

    … Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick recently announced a Member’s Bill to end alcohol sponsorship of sport, acting on … benefits for all New Zealanders and is an important step in the right direction to improving health equity. Green MP … alcohol in Māori communities. 11 Alcohol Sponsorship – how does it work? Sport is emotionally captivating, highly …
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  • The long shadow of war on the health of military personnel

    … participating in war – and suggests that such issues need to be considered carefully by governments before … comparison group is used. So what is known about long-term health impacts of combat experience? For veterans … If the latter is a true effect then this is an example of how the damage to veterans can result in wider harm to others …
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  • An Official Inquiry into the Covid-19 Pandemic Response – It’s Time and it’s Vital

    … of the Covid-19 pandemic response. In this blog we explain how it is now time to announce the process and timetable for such an official … pandemics 8 (for which NZ is relatively well placed to survive compared to other island nations 9 10 ). Findings …
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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … NZ scores approximately half marks (54/100), coming in 35 th in the world rankings – far behind Australia. This poor result suggests that the NZ Government needs to act promptly to upgrade the country’s defences against … unprecedented scale, that might even undermine humanity’s long-term potential for progressing civilisation). Public …
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  • Perspective: The NZ Health Research Strategy Discussion Document – much scope for improvement

    … needs a firmer strategic outlook with greater coherence. In this Perspective Blog a simple SWOT analysis is conducted … is proposed. It makes a lot of sense for a country to have a health research strategy. It should make it easier for prioritising how best to target limited research funding and for the …
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