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  • A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development

    … Consequently Māori make up a significant proportion of public housing tenants. Developing and managing housing … associated neighbourhoods that support Māori wellbeing is of critical importance. To help the movement toward … wellbeing of Māori. Implications for public health: The practice of whakawhanaungatanga, with its foundation in te ao …
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  • Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream

    … increasingly difficult decisions as nitrate pollution of drinking water sources worsens. Some water supplies in the … follow.  Last year, Canterbury saw its highest-ever number of dairy cattle, the primary source of nitrate pollution in … not ECan or polluters.  Implications for public policy and practice Regulators, especially (but not only) regional …
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  • Tobacco Excise Taxes and the Smokefree 2025 Goal: Some Ways Forward

    … In this blog, we explore how allocating a proportion of tobacco tax revenue to assist smokers, and funding other … help avoid unintended outcomes and support continuation of an effective policy intervention. As the last scheduled … called on the Government to stop increasing the cost of tobacco, a measure they argue causes unacceptable hardship …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … means for public health. Despite the partial exemption of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), the TPP agreement as a whole applies to tobacco, and breaches of the TPP might, in principle, be alleged in relation to … 28 allows one state to pursue a dispute with another. In practice complaints taken by governments are often driven by …
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  • Vaccination is often cost-effective but not (currently) HPV vaccination for boys in NZ

    … for boys. Here we put these results into a wider context of vaccination – which is often, but not always, a good use of limited health sector resources.   Similar to many … NZ setting. Our model involved simulating an annual cohort of 12-year-old girls and boys in 2011 in the context of …
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  • A new online calculator for estimating how much a society might spend on life-saving interventions

    … age: NZ$ 1.2 million for an intervention to save the life of a child, NZ$ 0.7 million for a 50-year-old, and NZ$ 0.2 … and the person is returned to the expected health status of the average NZ citizen. These results are very sensitive to the choice of discount rate and to the selected cost-effectiveness …
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  • New Zealand’s hard-won improvements to our Building Code must be retained: Here’s why

    … that the Government is  considering reducing the thickness of insulation required in new homes . This would mean rolling back the building code standards that were brought in last year after extensive … across most building elements. Implications for policy and practice We recommend current H1 standards be retained to …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … Policy-makers need to know how much of ethnic inequalities in health are due to socioeconomic … shed light on policy-relevant questions.  A half or more of Māori:European/Other inequalities in mortality are due to … Māori and European/Other by a quarter. It is hard to think of another intervention that will reduce inequalities by as …
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  • Covid recovery or sustainable transformation?

    … provides an opportunity for a sustainable transformation of our society and economy, addressing the climate crisis and … recognised. Not only do we now better recognise the shape of risks such as pandemics, environmental and financial … these risks for too long. They need to be confronted. One of the most profound risk s ahead, as we recover from Covid, …
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  • How might NZ expand community water fluoridation?

    … The recently published Report on the safety of water fluoridation (Royal Society of NZ & the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor) gave a green …
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