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  • Why Aotearoa New Zealand needs a Public Health Communication Centre

    … the Public Health Communication Centre. We are dedicated to effectively communicating policies and practices that … and the health of the environment in which we live. How will we do this? Our flagship initiative is the Public … housing and sustainable urban environments Readers can stay up to date on new articles by subscribing to The …
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  • A public health perspective on taxing harmful products

    … The New Zealand Government has set up a Tax Working Group to consider reforms of the tax system. In this blog we … and the environment. In the past, NZ has been smart from a health perspective in using taxes to ensure relatively … addition to harms for the drinker, various NZ studies show how important harm to others from alcohol in this country …
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  • Should smokefree indoor areas = vapefree areas?

    … options that would allow nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be sold legally in NZ. This consultation raises questions about how the wider uptake of e-cigarette use (known as “vaping”) … The potential value of shifting smokers to become vapers From a public health perspective, it might seem preferable to …
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  • New report shows how regional plans could transform freshwater quality

    … quality identified by a new report on the failure to protect high-country lakes from degradation. The new … However, leading farmers are already illustrating how they can work within the natural limits of their land and … of good management practices (GMPs) and actions to stay within the limit. The limitations of the tool relied on …
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  • The Covid-19 experience in Aotearoa New Zealand and other comparable high-income jurisdictions and implications for managing the next pandemic phase

    … used a mixture of elimination and suppression strategies to achieve low infection and mortality rates until the … measures to reduce the immediate and long-term impacts from Covid-19. Covid-19 has become one of the leading causes … the measure of excess mortality as the ‘difference between how many people died during the pandemic, from any cause, and …
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  • Update on Long-COVID

    … that estimates of prevalence are still wide at about 15 to 65% of those initially infected with the pandemic virus, … Patients who were more severely ill during their hospital stay had more severely impaired lung function. In the USA, … some important longitudinal data and emphasises just how persistent symptoms can be. Many of the other studies of …
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  • The changing COVID-19 situation in Taiwan – what can NZ learn from Taiwan’s latest outbreak?

    … an assessment of Taiwan’s extremely effective response to COVID-19 during 2020. However, a recent surge of community cases in northern Taiwan from April 2021 onwards has resulted in an increasing … We have previously made several recommendations for how NZ can enhance its COVID-19 response, 4, 24 and expand on …
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  • Ten things we can learn from new smoking and vaping data about progress to Smokefree Aotearoa 2025

    … smoking prevalence. However, progress remains inadequate to achieve the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal and the government needs to take urgent action, particularly to reduce marked … This blog provides a summary of some key points from the 2018-19 NZ Health Survey (NZHS) data as available on …
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  • Is Euthanasia a health priority for New Zealand at present?

    … This blog discusses what will be needed to operationalise the End of Life Choice Act in the event … enhancing palliative care services. Image by  b0red  from  Pixabay A significant bureaucracy would need to be … and others) would need to develop policies addressing how they will respond to requests for medical assistance in …
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  • Will the Health Star Rating labels improve people’s diets?

    … Consumers have a right to have informative yet easy-to-use nutrition labelling, and … design process involving several committees  with members from government, industry, academia, health and consumer … Association, Steve Hambleton, said he could not understand how the government could cite ”lack of evidence” as a reason …
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