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  • Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive

    … mortality have been in the last century. We are publishing a book later this year ( The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in New Zealand ; AUP) that looks … Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely are publishing a book The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in …
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  • COVID-19 and Māori health – when equity is more than a word

    … within our society, frame equity as an add-on to a substantial list of other ‘equally’ important principles, … by oppressive systems. These include increased risk of infection for Māori, greater risk of negative COVID-19 health … which person gets what resource. These approaches often reflect judgements about which patients have the …
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  • Keeping public health on the agenda for the new government

    … highlighting evidence-informed public health solutions in a new series: Briefings to the Incoming Government . With a new government come new plans, new commitments, and new … are the health and sustainability challenges we face as a country. New ministers and policy agendas will not make …
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  • How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    … and the National Ethics Advisory Committee has released a final report [3] on Resource Allocation and Covid-19 that includes a section on vaccine prioritisation. The NZ Government has also developed a Covid-19 Vaccine Strategy [4] but without any detailed …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Mental health services can’t solve a mental health crisis: public mental health priorities in Aotearoa

    … rāhui/lockdowns exacerbated mental distress for those with a history of mental illness .   Despite increased investment … as reducing demand for child health services as noted in a previous blog in this series.    Increasing physical … of addiction which require treatment, such as overdose and infection. We know the benefits of a health-based approach to …
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  • Government struggling with evidence: HTPs, addiction levels, and Smokefree 2025

    … prevalence, it should re-introduce denicotinisation, a measure supported by Health Minister Dr Shane Reti, and … Minister’s recommendation, which drew on arguments from a mystery document 1 and “ independent advice ” that did not … smoking has become more entrenched and thus requires a targeted approach. While it may seem commonsense that …
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  • Ready or not? Pandemic preparedness index and implications for NZ

    … in the future. The ri sks include pandemic influenza or a new infectious disease, as well as deliberate biological … The world may have learned some lessons from Covid-19, but a recent international scenario exercise indicated there is still work to do. In the fictional scenario, a state-sponsored agricultural attack led to a human pandemic …
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  • Happiness surveys, & can health sector interventions improve well-being?

    … (Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University) is a world renown economist, and it is published by the United … Development Solutions Network. There has also been a growing (re)focus on happiness as the goal of living and … were the second most important cause of health loss after coronary heart disease. Actually for New Zealand women …
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  • New Zealand’s hard-won improvements to our Building Code must be retained: Here’s why

    … the building code standards that were brought in last year after extensive consultation and with almost universal … has been geared around the new standards, but the cost of a rollback would not just affect industry, it will impact … The current “H1” building code standards were introduced after extensive and exhaustive consultation. The consultation …
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  • Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis

    … Dr Stefanie Vandevijvere, Professor Boyd Swinburn A panel of 71 independent and government experts have … in tackling the child obesity crisis.   According to a 2017 OCED Report New Zealand is still the third fattest … in New Zealand in April-May 2017. The Food-EPI as a rigorous tool and process to measure implementation gaps …
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