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  • Long COVID: a crucial reason for vax, mask, and distance

    … social measures. Introduction In the earlier PHE blogs 1,2 on long COVID – now increasingly also called Post-Acute … Alliance to undertake a retrospective analysis of the medical history of 240,648 COVID-19-infected persons 79 . … diagnosis with COVID-19 were 7-10 times less likely to report two or more long-COVID symptoms than unvaccinated …
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  • Daily nicotine use increases among youth in Aotearoa NZ: The 2021 Snapshot Y10 Survey

    … aged 14-15. The survey provides important information on vaping and smoking among an age group where dependence on … assess the impact of different policies.  While the survey report reveals declining daily smoking, it also shows … products are not able to be sold legally to people aged under 18, it is very concerning to see the survey found that …
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  • Poor ventilation in public transport settings in Aotearoa NZ: New data for buses and trains

    … Summary In this Briefing we report on carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) levels in public transport … NZ Ministry of Education in 2022 distributed more than 12,500 portable CO 2 monitors to all state and state-integrated …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Addressing Māori health inequity

    … major parties with a set of questions about their position on five areas relevant to public health: managing future … out its objects and functions…”. The health system changes under Pae Ora have the potential to make lasting difference … transform Working for Families by creating a Family Tax Credit of $215 a week for the first child and $135 a week for …
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  • Where do the parties stand? A low carbon, healthy transport system

    … survey of political parties in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) on the topic of transport policy. Three parties in the … consequences of the transport system and/or are placed under significant financial strain to pay for essential … Victoria University Wellington Dr Kirsty Wild , Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, …
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  • What we would like to see on the Ministry of Health’s website to better inform progress on COVID-19 elimination

    … and display a key graph that we think should be routinely on that website. We also detail a potentially more useful way … public and research community can better track progress on the path to COVID-19 elimination. Both the graphical and … travel variable blank (13) have a similar distribution of report dates to those with the overseas travel variable as …
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  • Minimum pricing of alcohol: what does the evidence say?

    … internationally around the setting of minimum prices on alcohol. In this blog we review a paper just published in the Lancet on this approach. We also consider the potential implications … delayed decreases in alcohol-attributable mortality . The Report prepared by the NZ Ministry of Justice (that Minister …
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  • In the news: Public Health Priorities Series

    … coverage of the Public Health Priorities Series published on The Briefing,  coinciding with the launch of the  Public … Doctor . Marnie was also interviewed for a podcast played on 95bfm . The full Briefing was republished by Water NZ in … Priorities series featured in a shorter form in Newsroom on 8 March. In the piece, Louise Delany argues doing …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks

    … major parties with a set of questions about their position on five areas relevant to public health: future risks, tax, … not days. Managing the impact of a warming climate on our health, environment and communities requires looking … environmental health concerns where the burden falls on those living in coming decades. Short-term policy horizons …
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  • The Havelock North drinking water inquiry: A wake-up call to rebuild public health in New Zealand

    … are now common knowledge. The outbreak was recognised on 12 August 2016 and resulted in an estimated 5,500 cases, 45 hospitalisations, and 3 deaths by the time it … public health function to the point that it is now under serious threat. It may surprise many to know that there …
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