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  • Carcinogen exposure in Aotearoa workplaces is unacceptably high

    … and creating an Aotearoa Occupational Health Service, with a focus on establishing lifetime access to screening and … counts from the 2018 Census. 2 Further details on sampling can be found in the Appendix below . Widespread Exposure, … the findings suggest that preventive efforts should start with the most common carcinogens and the identified …
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  • Queenstown outbreak highlights future challenges for clean drinking water

    … safe to drink. While authorities continue to investigate a range of potential source of this outbreak, they have … people, as described in the Appendix .  Cryptosporidium can be transmitted by direct contact with infected animals or … in Queenstown that occurred last week (though after the start of this outbreak).  Rising temperatures also affect the …
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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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  • Modelling tobacco tax – implications of BODE3 paper just out, and personal reflections on the research journey

    … Yesterday we published a paper in PLoS Medicine that estimates the health gains, … Policy-makers need the best information researchers can provide to realise this goal. We have previously … Lifetable is run in Excel. The basic idea is quite simple – we simulate the whole population through one main …
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  • Running into Trouble: COVID-19 in Japan during the Tokyo Olympics

    … to hold the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the middle of a global pandemic. These impacts include direct effects on … 2020, the number of cases began rising again, marking the start of the second wave (see Figure 1), which peaked in … at the time of the Australian Open than Japan had at the start of the Olympic Games. The Australian Open drew around a …
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  • From across the Ditch: How Australia has to decide on the least worst option for COVID-19

    … Australia owes a debt of gratitude to its pandemic modellers, public health … are not increasing (much) in the past week. If those cases start to track up, and double quicker than every eight days … services avalanche. We have three choices. First, we can go for the moonshot of elimination (and hunker down until …
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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 … and efficiency and to show that these two relatively simple measures – insulation and heating - reduce electricity …
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  • Updating the role of the state: the case of housing in New Zealand

    … longer. The challenge Healthy, safe, affordable housing is a critical foundation of population health and wellbeing. … Ora. State investment in housing The current Government can be characterised in Mariana Mazzucato’s terminology as an … for sale under Kiwibuild. Kiwibuild got off to a slow start, partly because of the shortage of builders and …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … methods to determine causal relationships that can shed light on policy-relevant questions.  A half or more of Māori:European/Other inequalities in … 1981, 1996 and 2006 censuses.  For smoking, we used the simple current, ex and never categorization at these same …
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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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