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  • Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change

    … Summary When Cyclone Gabrielle swept across large parts of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) in February this year, it … water infrastructure in this disaster and find evidence of a low level of resilience. It is clear that both central and … welfare impacts of these disruptions The toll on people’s mental health from storm-fuelled flooding is well-documented …
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  • Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones

    … scenarios include higher storm severity (as per aspects of some previous cyclones), worse timing, hitting Auckland … should be conducted for other disasters to better inform a wider range and depth of future disaster mitigation … terms of the highest amount of rainfall on one locality (eg, Bola), and top wind speed (eg, Giselle and Bola, see …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … Aotearoa New Zealand has been a world leader in the smokefree arena and is doubling down on … Government is obliged to protect the health and wellbeing of Māori. It is further obligated under both the United … fashionable or on-trend settings. These images have been used to promote vaping in Aotearoa NZ (6) and specifically to …
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  • Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data

    … Zealanders (1). Also four times as many Māori women die of lung cancer than their European/Pakeha counterparts (2). … this important data closer to users we have developed a user-friendly interactive online graphing tool . Below we … tool. High quality data publicly available online The data used to monitor these inequalities comes from the NZ Census …
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  • Covid-19: A planetary disease

    … This blog focuses on the underlying environmental causes of Covid-19 (Covid) and the role of international law in … by new international law. What caused Covid? Covid-19 is a planetary disease and we humans are its cause: ‘The animals … Environmental Programme: https://www.unenvironment.org/ (eg, see their excellent though anthropocentric report …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … is growing evidence that nitrates in drinking water are a risk factor for bowel cancer, there is also emerging … new evidence and puts it into a NZ context. Nitrate is one of the most common drinking water contaminants in NZ, largely … basis of the current drinking water standard of 11.3 mg/L used in NZ. What is the impact of adverse birth outcomes? In …
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  • Home modification to reduce falls – appears cost-effective in NZ

    … We have just published a modelling study on a home safety and modification programme … possible implementation options and the desirability of also considering group exercise programmes, which have … health sector policy-makers could target this intervention eg,: Targeting to adults aged 65+ or aged 75+ with a prior …
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  • Transport, carbon emission reduction and health- the possibility of a virtuous circle?

    … and environmental co-benefit. They have recently published a systematic review “Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Policies in the Transport Sector … to these in the last few years and a number of papers have used modelling to estimate the health benefits of these …
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  • Calculating cardiovascular risk with online calculators – scope for improvement?

    … It is now possible to readily estimate individual risk of future cardiovascular events with a large number of online calculators – including a … exist (e.g., see these reviews (3,4)) and these can be used by citizens and in discussion with their GPs to make …
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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 to …
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