600 Results

  • Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts

    … has estimated GDP losses from Long Covid during 2024 to be 0.5-2.3% (mean 1.0%; median 0.6%) across eight high-income … Australia’s GDP . Importantly, this estimate is likely to be conservative ( see Appendix ). Potential cost to NZ Given … and economic burden from Long Covid in NZ are likely to be large. Ongoing high infection rates mean that each week, …
    Briefing

  • Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

    … experiences of housing instability.  Housing needs to be viewed as a human right.  At a minimum, we need political … to also look upstream to explore how the phenomenon can be prevented in the first place. Building on this, recent … to house viewings as a couple so they could pretend to be straight; delaying their gender transition; not …
    Briefing

  • FoodSwitch. Smartphone consumers beat industry to better labeling

    … or even spouse that some food is unhealthy crap?  It would be so much easier if food labels were easy to read and simple … food traffic light labelling system in New Zealand would be the best option.  But this is also a research question, … labelling is (just like tobacco packaging was) likely to be a major point of contention between the food industry, …
    Briefing

  • The rise and rise of specialist vape stores: Time for the Government to act

    … supports the need for accessibility to vaping products to be carefully controlled… [noting that] VIANZ has repeatedly asked for stronger steps to be taken by Government to protect our rangatahi.” Given VAPO … are problematic and believe existing penalties should be applied. Further, we suggest these penalties should …
    Briefing

  • Public health priorities in this election year

    … policies, we are world leaders. This illustrates what can be achieved by the wonderful fusion of public health evidence … of them. This is an election year. We don’t know who will be in government come October. But we do know that the … the path we take.  The list is not exhaustive; we will be covering many more public health issues in the coming …
    Briefing

  • What does the novel coronavirus epidemic mean for New Zealand?

    … of cases. The biggest unknown is how controllable it will be. This is the extent to which transmission can be prevented by easily available methods such as case … it’s a coronavirus and, if it behaves like SARS, it can be controlled with basic public health measures. Another …
    Briefing

  • Media release: Money down the drain - The high cost of leaking water pipes

    … Leaking water pipe across Aotearoa New Zealand could be costing the country upwards of $122 million a year … reticulated water from leaky pipes. In some centres it can be far more than this, around 40 to 50%, as in Wellington,” … Studies from the United States show that there can be disease outbreaks with deaths when water pipes have cracks …
    News

  • Would reducing the number of tobacco retail outlets achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal?

    … used. Therefore, outlet reduction would probably have to be but one component of an overall programme of activity to … goal. Nevertheless, these estimated impacts are likely to be conservative and under-estimate the true impact, as there would likely be additional denormalisation of smoking from such …
    Briefing

  • How the tobacco industry targets young people to achieve a new generation of smokers

    … promises to stop selling tobacco products, should these be proved harmful.[1] Analysis of industry documents and … Most of those whose health and longevity will be harmed by smoking begin using tobacco as young people, … with the all-important peer group. In adulthood, it may be used to ease the feelings of stress created by the pursuit …
    Briefing

  • Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones

    … This type of downward counterfactual analysis should be conducted for other disasters to better inform a wider … in which the outcome of a disaster event is imagined to be worse than what actually occurred. It is a form of … for less common disasters for which there may only be a small dataset of historical events. This approach has …
    Briefing

Subscribe

Briefing CTA

Public Health Expert Briefing

Get the latest insights from the public health research community delivered straight to your inbox for free. Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest research, analysis and commentary from the Public Health Expert Briefing.

PHCC logo PHCC

The PHCC is funded by a philanthropic endowment from the Gama Foundation and hosted by the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington.

Contact

Email phcc@phcc.org.nz
43 Hanson Street, Mt Cook, 
Wellington | Te Whanganui-a-Tara
PO Box 7343, Wellington South 6242
New Zealand | Aotearoa

 

Public Health Expert Briefing (ISSN 2816-1203)