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  • What can we learn from Healthy Housing Initiatives? New evidence from the Wellington Well Homes scheme

    … safety features in the home increase the risk of injury (5). However, the good news is that there are effective … advice on heating and ventilation, and provide items such as beds, bedding, curtains, heaters, draught-stoppers, and … by the Ministry of Health, the interventions offered, such as heaters, are funded by charities, so what’s offered …
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  • Five key reasons why NZ should have an official inquiry into the response to the COVID-19 pandemic

    … an elimination goal 1 and succeeding by achieving it. As such, it appears to be able to return to a “new normal” … phase could focus on the first reason identified below as results could contribute to decisions about ongoing … 6-12 months that could particularly focus on reasons 2-5 below. Factors influencing the scope and timing of the …
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  • Does change in income and deprivation change your smoking risk? Yes, but in different directions.

    … control policy and political debate.  Moreover, not all is as you might expect, and it differs for deprivation and … vastly superior to a simple one-off survey – but still not as good as a randomized experiment of, say, giving people more or …
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  • Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts

    … is likely costing the Australian economy approximately 0.5% of GDP in reduced productivity. In Aotearoa New Zealand … analyses of productivity losses and other costs such as healthcare use to inform the cost-effectiveness of … March 2024 year) faces a 0.5% reduction due to Long Covid, as seen in Australia, that would represent approximately NZ$2 …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Public policy options to address alcohol-related harm in Aotearoa

    … people and alcohol-related assaults and injuries as well as from chronic conditions such as liver damage and cancers. … and Sweden currently sell alcohol ~50 hours per week with ~5 outlets per 100,000 people. Reducing alcohol outlet density …
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  • Cycling and walking in six NZ cities: Where are we at?

    … Many cities with high levels of cycling and walking, such as Amsterdam and Berlin, are exciting and dynamic places to … of harm to health from inactivity-related conditions, such as high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes. In all cities … staff working on cycling or walking issues ranges from 1.5 FTE/100,000 people (Christchurch) to 3.7 FTE/100,000 people …
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  • (Un)licensed to kill: do we need to regulate how tobacco is sold?

    … to the Government’s smokefree 2025 goal.   It may come as a surprise that a product as deadly and addictive as tobacco, which causes death on a … tobacco sales to minors that still occur regularly (5). Lastly, smokers who are trying to quit find the process …
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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … making population incidence rates respectively 83 and 5.2 per million people per day. These rates are still low by … where the requirement for more intensive controls such as quarantine might be justified by their actual risk of … bring this list down to just Austria, Georgia, and Latvia. As a further example of the risk imbalance, let’s consider …
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  • Oral tobacco and nicotine products: Quitting aid or teen addiction risk?

    … in marketing flavoured tobacco-free oral nicotine products as youth lifestyle products, including NZ-specific promotion … therapy and vaping products are already widely available as alternatives for people who smoke, and the safety and … $10,000; or (b)in any other case, to a fine not exceeding $5,000. (5) In this section, oral use, in relation to a …
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  • Can we make better use of a cost-effective anti-cancer vaccine? The case of HPV vaccination in NZ girls

    … intensive school-only vaccination programme (73% coverage as in Australia) would achieve more health gain and still be … viruses. They can cause several types of cancer (such as cancers of the cervix, anus, and oropharynx) and … 3 for 12-13 year old girls (with dose 1 being at 83%) [5]. Furthermore, England has achieved 84% coverage in their …
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