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  • The policy bonfire of environment protection: 10 examples that threaten public health

    … Summary Examined together, the new Government’s approach to environmental policy shows a clear pattern towards … be harmed by drinking contaminated water [1-3] , breathing in polluted air [4] or being displaced, injured or killed as … communities [16]. A key role for governments is to take a long-term perspective and move beyond short-term crisis …
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  • The Island Bay cycleway – Terribly important and nothing new

    … This is a sensible move to make the city safer and more attractive for … is important because the way we build our streets shapes how we live, and consequently determines the health and … nothing new. The Island Bay story has unfolded previously in other places. In essence, this is a debate about the best …
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  • Queenstown outbreak highlights future challenges for clean drinking water

    … Summary Safe, good quality drinking water is crucial to public health. The Queenstown cryptosporidiosis outbreak … findings, there needs to be more public discussion on how to keep communities’ drinking water safe and more … 42 hospitalisations, three people developing long-term health conditions, and four deaths. 2 Since then …
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  • Preventing diabetes: What does the latest modelling evidence tell us about health gains and cost savings?

    … 5.5% of NZ adults have been diagnosed with diabetes. In this blog we summarise our recent modelling work that … investment in interventions of proven effectiveness to prevent type 2 diabetes could substantially benefit … the NZ Government could be confident that overall long-term cost savings would occur as a reduction of this …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … In this blog we ask what the tobacco ‘carve out’ from the … settlement (ISDS), the TPP agreement as a whole applies to tobacco, and breaches of the TPP might, in principle, be … tobacco industry over tobacco control measures. No matter how ill-founded industry legal arguments may be, they may …
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  • Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - where the parties stand: Election 2023

    … ideological grounds. This is despite the evidence pointing to the savings in lives and health dollars from prevention measures. These … opposed both action areas, but made no comment about how they would tackle these serious harms. National supported …
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  • Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action

    … Aotearoa NZ has responded very successfully to the COVID-19 pandemic by achieving elimination and the … to learn from the “science of superspreading” [21] and how such settings have contributed to recent deterioration of … to achieve the necessary level of protection for NZ?), (b) long-term strategic benefit (ie, is this investment building …
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  • Unaffordable home heating increases risk of severe mental distress

    … crisis is placing more people at risk of being unable to afford to heat their homes. We know living in cold housing contributes to many negative physical health …
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  • COVID-19 and Māori health – when equity is more than a word

    … worried by the inadequate focus on Māori health equity in pandemic planning within the health and disability system, … inequities within our society, frame equity as an add-on to a substantial list of other ‘equally’ important … to die from COVID-19. 19 However, it remains unclear how age works to increase risk. Older age may lead to worse …
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  • Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable

    … explores the tension between international attempts to increase road safety and the speed limit increases in the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024. The … cannot happen in narrow sector silos and must take a long-term view that fosters public good. Setting road speed …
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