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  • Smokefree outdoor areas: A missing part of Government’s new Smokefree 2025 proposals

    … Great NZ Government Smokefree 2025 proposals, but needing a vital addition The NZ Government is to be congratulated … policies a matter of law for all Aotearoa, so all citizens can benefit. This should include buffer zones, such as the … available for people to use and enjoy, and that we can set a good example for our children and youth by …
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  • A Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan: Why this could eliminate smoking disparities for Māori

    … The recent release of the Government’s “Proposals for a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan” (the  Plan) represents … bill to make tobacco sales illegal. …the tobacco companies can go to hell. We will no longer sacrifice our generations so you can make profits… 5 Shortly after the bill was presented to …
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  • Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?

    … Looking at Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred out by Google’s algorithm for … in childrens’ playgrounds. But GSV is often only able to show features of parks and playgrounds that are near roads …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … In Aotearoa/NZ, Getting Through Together already provides a statement of shared values which can be used to guide a wide range of responses. In response … and fewer complaints. … Good decision-making processes … show respect for people and ensure procedural fairness…Where …
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  • (Un)licensed to kill: do we need to regulate how tobacco is sold?

    …   Example of a tobacco free retailer in Northland (Source: Northern … death on a scale unprecedented for a consumer product, can be sold anywhere in New Zealand and by anyone. Currently, … type of scheme are multiple: revenue raised through fees can be used to fund enforcement, the licence can be revoked …
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  • Strengthening Omicron mitigation strategies in Early Childhood Education settings

    … Aotearoa New Zealand is in a major Omicron outbreak. With Covid-19 cases doubling every … who remain unvaccinated. Very large Omicron outbreaks can lead to a substantial rise in children requiring … effects of Covid-19 infection are ongoing. Young children can also transmit the pandemic virus within households, …
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  • What does the novel coronavirus epidemic mean for New Zealand?

    … This blog post reproduces a Sunday Star Times opinion piece (26/1/2020) by this author … what this event might mean for New Zealand, and how we can reduce its potential impact on this country and our … it will be. This is the extent to which transmission can be prevented by easily available methods such as case …
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  • Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

    … Aotearoa New Zealand. K ā inga Ora – Home and Communities, a Crown agency, has been funded in the Budget to build an … K ā inga Ora has so far built 11,830 public homes with a further 4,500 under way. T here was a welcome reduction of … Programme to check its effectiveness and efficiency and to show that these two relatively simple measures – insulation …
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  • Smokefree cars – an important step towards protecting children from the hazards of smoking

    … harm in Aotearoa. Secondhand smoke (SHS) is a health hazard for children and causes serious diseases, … a law is finally being enacted in Aotearoa, what effect can we expect and how can we maximise the positive impacts of … of regular smoking among children. Studies from Aotearoa show that exposure to smoking in the home and in cars is …
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  • Flooding, public health – and the need for more emphasis on prevention

    … notably in Christchurch in March 2014. This risk is a consequence of high rainfall and the steepness of the hill … sewerage systems from these particular floods. The latter can also have adverse health impacts though any subsequent burden of enteric diseases can be difficult to detect with current surveillance systems …
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