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  • An Official Inquiry into the Covid-19 Pandemic Response – It’s Time and it’s Vital

    … contribute to improved preparedness for other major public health threats such as climate disruption and natural … Some official inquiries in NZ have helped advance health in the past In recent work by two of us, 11 we found … systems for hazard scanning, risk assessment, and risk management decision-making. Government systems for capturing …
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  • Rising congenital syphilis in Aotearoa New Zealand needs a strong response

    … syphilis in the last 5 years, notably in African American populations in United States and Indigenous … 9 Lead maternity carers need to be aware of the NZ Sexual Health Society recommendation to re-screen in third … advanced trainee, Te Toka Tumai e Whatu Ora Appendix  Information on categories presented in Figure 4 No/ late …
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  • Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … housing deprivation often experience further debilitating health consequences, with impacts on their education and … these factors are known to increase peoples’ wellbeing and health. As the OECD constantly reminds us, short-term … requires a consistent multi-partisan approach.  The public health response We have high-quality public health and …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 2)

    … Professor Diana Sarfati What do we do with the conflicting information on breast cancer screening? Assoc Prof Diana Sarfati and Dr Caroline Shaw Sorting through the information about breast cancer screening is difficult. There … screening to women in this age range . Communicating information to women Coming back to women who are thinking …
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  • Bioethicists, scientists and politicians; decision-making in a pandemic

    … 2017 4 and thus the public servants advising government on management would have been aware of it. At the time that a … from the Prime Minister and the Director General of Health and mapped the extent to which the approach they took … decisions based on the ethical framework and scientific information, while building and maintaining the trust of the …
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  • A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’

    … for some smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’. In this blog, we discuss what a new network of … we want to pave a clear way towards creating appetite for health through the solutions outlined in this new book by … including New Zealand, the implementation of strong public health policies is lagging, mainly due to powerful industry …
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  • The case for denicotinising tobacco in Aotearoa NZ remains strong: response to online critique

    … would likely profoundly reduce smoking prevalence and health inequities. The key criticism – that we relied mainly … policy to dramatically lower smoking prevalence and reduce health loss and inequalities when implemented in the … and recommendations for future research and data management practices. Given our paper was focused on Māori …
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  • Key findings in the 2021/22 NZ Health Survey: Continued rapid falls in smoking prevalence and increases in vaping

    … New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data was released in late November. In … smoking and vaping. 1 2 This blog provides updated information on patterns and trends in smoking and vaping … the contrasting evidence in the NZHS figures about the association between increasing EC use and declines in smoking …
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  • NZ Health Survey data released today reinforce Smokefree Legislation is crucial to reduce smoking inequities

    … Newly released New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) data for 2022/2023 show that smoking … the ramifications in the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . The Health Survey estimates that daily smoking has reduced from …
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  • Queenstown outbreak highlights future challenges for clean drinking water

    … Safe, good quality drinking water is crucial to public health. The Queenstown cryptosporidiosis outbreak highlights … regulatory head Steve Taylor told RNZ that: “on the information available at the moment there is a material risk … of the water they provide and for writing Source Water Management Plans (though not the implementation of the plan). …
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