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Three Waters reforms are needed to protect public health and ensure changes are economically sustainable and efficient
… discussion on the critical need to reform the management of drinking water resources which is currently: 1) … outbreak made much of an entire town sick (~8,000 people), with 58 hospitalisations and four deaths. 1,2 The … drinking water testing and reporting requirements for many contaminants are largely based on a national testing …
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Public Health at the Movies: A Selection of 35 Top Movies
… We have assembled a collection of 35 high quality movies as part of public health teaching … include And the Band Played On (1993), Contagion (2011), How to Survive a Plague (2012), Milk (2008), and Miss Evers’ … And the Band Played On remains a great movie and it shows many of the important aspects of how a society grapples with …
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Public Health Solutions Series: Improving the cost, composition and availability of foods can save lives
… system: reducing the cost and increasing the availability of healthy food and reformulation of processed food. This … were attributable to dietary risk factors within one year (2017). High intake of sodium, low intake of whole … risk factors for these deaths . Locally, Māori and Pacific people experience higher exposure to diet related disease …
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Sustained Resilience: the impact of nuclear war on New Zealand and how to mitigate catastrophe
… production and distribution of this supply assumes that people understand there will be enough, that there is … the possibilities of such challenges. We need to calculate how many can be fed. En masse arrivals may be unlikely in a world …
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Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ
… the current nitrate levels in NZ drinking water showed as many as 800,000 people could be on water supplies with nitrate above 1 mg/L. … accelerated the rate of groundwater degradation. 11 How might nitrates be linked to adverse birth outcomes? The …
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Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research
… of the public health community hold divergent views on how access to vaping products or electronic nicotine delivery … switching from smoking to vaping may be more complex than people expect. Participants in our earlier studies reported … cases, reported providing information that was incorrect. Many participants saw their role as strictly commercial, …
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Urgent action needed to help eliminate cervical cancer in Aotearoa
… of abnormal cervical cell changes. If all women and people with a cervix can access these three things, cervical … in NZ are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 55 people die from it. 1 Almost all cases of cervical cancer are … and creates confusion among service providers, so many people miss out. Previous Parliamentary Review …
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Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution expected
… local authorities have reduced urban speed limits across many of our cities, and expressed strong support for … and wellbeing? Deaths and serious injuries In 2023, 341 people died in road crashes in NZ . In around a third of … in urban areas. 14 There are also questions about how travel time savings are used. Any benefits are based on …
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A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?
… smoked tobacco products are virtually nicotine free is one of the key proposals included in the Smokefree 2025 Action … 2025 Impact of VLNC policy on quitting From 2023, 33% of people who smoke would quit each year and the remainder would continue to smoke using …
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Front-of-pack nutrition labels improve understanding but don’t improve healthy food choices; Starlight Trial just published
… from our HRC-funded DIET Programme based at the University of Auckland. This is important evidence for policy. We had … Panel label, although they appear useful for a subgroup of people who use labels a lot. Figure 2: Forest plot of … study results. Our study did not, and could not, assess how the food industry reformulates food in response to …
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