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  • Emphasis on indigenous forests in ETS would benefit public health

    … to the review . We touch on the impacts to human health from climate change and then outline the problems for public health from landscapes dominated by monocultural forestry. We highlight the public health and other co-benefits from redesigning the ETS to …
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  • Concluding the Public Health Solutions Series 

    … Over the last five weeks, Public Health Expert blog has published ten invited blogs on the best public health interventions the G overnment can put in place to reduce pressure on the health system.        As highlighted in the media this week, …
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  • Public Health Communication Centre strategic outline

    … Our purpose To effectively communicate public health research evidence in order to protect and improve the health, well-being, and equity of the people of Aotearoa New Zealand and the health of the environment in which we live. Primary Charter …
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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

    … in several high-income Asia-Pacific jurisdictions: Australia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and … for the NZ Government around strengthening existing public health measures to reduce the immediate and long-term impacts … shift has resulted in a significant reduction in public health protections and critical pressure on the health system …
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  • More courage needed from our political parties—reviewing our election series

    … where political parties stand on issues that impact the health and wellbeing of our population. In this article we … parties stand” series, in which we put a range of public health issues to the five parties currently in parliament. We … speed limit reductions, and build more roads with public/private partnerships. What will be the fate of Te Aka Whai …
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  • Australia’s Quarantine Systems Failures: Lessons for NZ

    … control. In this blog we consider potential lessons from Australia’s 17 quarantine systems failures for NZ.   Overall, … We defined a quarantine system failure as where a border/health worker or person in the community with a link to the … (eg, in February 2021 there were still concerns by NZ health workers about staffing inadequacies in these …
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  • Where do the parties stand? – Introducing our election series

    … representatives make choices that impact the long-term health and wellbeing of every New Zealander. These decisions are not confined to the health system but range across all parts of our society. To … offer better outcomes and value than a series of public-private partnerships. The general election is the time when …
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  • NZ Health Strategy Consultation Draft – are the big prevention programmes really in there?

    … second time this week on the consultation draft of the NZ Health Strategy, focusing this time on preventive … that actually would make a meaningful difference to health in Aotearoa NZ. The draft Strategy has many strong … prevention activities that would have the biggest health impact (a goal of the strategy), reduce health …
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  • Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options?

    … as a replacement for tobacco smoking, will improve the health of the NZ population. The estimated health gain is … see the 29 tobacco control interventions for NZ and Australia that are listed in our online league table at: … further NZ currently has the opportunity to build on its history of successful regulation of many aspects of tobacco …
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  • A new online calculator for estimating how much a society might spend on life-saving interventions

    … investment society might consider spending on life-saving health interventions, while remaining cost-effective. For NZ, … gained and the person is returned to the expected health status of the average NZ citizen. These results are … proportion of their gross domestic product (GDP) on health, e.g., at least 10% in countries like as NZ. …
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