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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 … quintile. Transport policy must focus on measures to reduce emissions that are effective and reduce inequities. … while reducing transport emissions is not a “nice to have” but integral to achieving the required reductions and …
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  • Using a fun “Mask Day” at school to promote pandemic protection in the NZ community

    … using face coverings or fabric masks as a strategy to contain COVID-19 pandemic virus transmission, the uptake … ages of 5-11 years. The activity was not compulsory, but children were encouraged to wear a mask to school. An … which can lessen the fear of the pandemic and help reduce infection rates [9]. The initiative showed an around …
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  • Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … as well as large budget allocations for infrastructure, but there is still a shortage of habitable safe housing for … Providing healthy, secure, affordable housing is essential to creating an inclusive, more equitable society. The … unsuitable for swimming and fishing. These are some of the important environmental impacts . Many of the more densely …
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  • Improving ventilation in schools: a key protection against Covid-19 outbreaks and an enduring legacy for healthier learning

    … country moves down Alert Levels, children are returning to in-person learning with little or no protection against … are combined. The approach of layering up mitigations to reduce transmission in schools is recommended by major health … such as the ECDC and CDC. 10 11 Ventilation plays an important role here and has the advantage that many changes …
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  • Public health priorities in this election year

    … health challenges linked by a need for decision-makers to act.  These are all areas where we as a society have a … We don’t know who will be in government come October. But we do know that the decisions made by those in power will … of our environment. It will also publish articles about important and topical public health issues, such as …
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  • The marked decline of sudden mass fatality events in NZ (1900 to 2015)

    … events than reported in a previous study (2), partly due to the identification of less well known ship sinkings. A … substantially in the decline in shipping-related events, but also for train crashes and aircraft crashes. This … inexpensive (6). But what about building standards to reduce earthquake-related injuries – are they cost-effective? …
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  • Why NZ should consider adopting “mass masking” as an additional step to speed elimination of the Covid-19 pandemic

    … should be given serious consideration by the NZ Government to speed progress towards the elimination goal. There is no doubt that surgical masks can be used to reduce the spread of respiratory infections [1]. In health … and fortunately it is relatively low cost. The first steps to assess feasibility in the NZ situation might be to …
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  • Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ

    … whether on-pack or mass media – must be salient and timely to have strong and continuing impact on supporting quitting. … to the introduction of this important policy, which will reduce the appeal of tobacco products to young people and … are available to analyse existing studies, such as the Youth Insights Survey run by the Health Promotion Agency …
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  • Comparing two pandemics: A century apart

    … also emphasises the importance of learning from the past to inform current and future pandemic management, focusing on … observed during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic but not for Covid-19 ( Figure 2 ). 6, 7 Instead, Covid-19 … in New Zealand increased exponentially with age. An important similarity across these pandemics was the …
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  • Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?

    … explanation and (lack of) solution to the obesity epidemic. She then points to the market … The views in this blog are expanded in greater depth in a book Dr Toomath is launching in Auckland and Wellington … that you get fat from over-eating and its no-one’s fault but your own. This is not just due to imperfect understanding …
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