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Fast-track Approvals Bill a threat to public health, warn researchers
… on the wrong track, circumventing legal protections for the environment and threatening public health. In the … environment. This has intergenerational consequences for our health,” says co-author and University of Otago … ill from unsafe drinking water. The Bill would allow for Ministerial decision-making to override the Resource …
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Lime E-Scooters – Avoiding a collision course with public health?
… users themselves, and to taxpayers, who fund treatments for injuries. In this blog, we consider the public health … shared transport (e.g., shared cars and cycles) available for hire to potential end-users. But will shared transport … impacts (i.e., how frequently are they used in winter, for example). Second, Lime suggests their e-scooters promote …
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The high burden from mental health disorders – but also an opportunity for cost-effective interventions
… cause of health loss after coronary heart disease (but for NZ women they were the first cause of health loss, ahead … were the leading cause of health loss (14% of the total for this age group), followed closely by anxiety and … reported that “cost-effective interventions are available for most disorders”. Indeed, some responses would probably be …
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Science-informed policy: considerations in support of judicious, circumspect changes to Aotearoa/NZ alert levels during the COVID-19 pandemic
… through increasing severity of disease to a need for critical care and, finally, death. The asymptomatic and … social contacts most problematic. It speaks to the need for a better understanding of the prevalence of infection in … is currently under investigation as a possible explanation for the apparent behaviour of SARS-CoV-2 19 . Finally, given …
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Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant
… that: Warnings about pandemic disease had been touted for decades Myriad organisations had called for increased health security funding The world ignored all … time Covid-19 struck). No country was adequately prepared for Covid-19 (Dalglish 2021). The risk of coronaviruses had …
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Climate change and cherry blossom
… mark Earth Hour, the mass event intended to show support for global environmental issues. Fortuitous, some suggested, … Convention Centre were turned on again at 9.30 pm, but for a while it looked as though this was not the favourable omen that the IPCC wished for. Delegates talked through the night, many feared the …
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In the news: Public Health Priorities Series
… When the first barrier fails: Strengthening protection for drinking water sources Marnie Prickett and co-authors … the Public Health Priorities series with a call to action for our water regulator to do more to protect our water … was republished in NZ Doctor . Marnie was also interviewed for a podcast played on 95bfm . The full Briefing was …
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Contradictions surround Government’s move to slash tax on heated tobacco products
… heated tobacco products. Tobacco companies had advocated for this change; however, the Ministry of Health had advised … smoking cessation, so the effectiveness of heated tobacco for this purpose remains uncertain”. The Ministry of Health … (MoH) echoed the WHO’s advice in a briefing prepared for Associate Health Minister Casey Costello and advised …
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Worth its weight: Building insulation in New Zealand
… housing from 1978 standards to meet current 2008 standards for new build housing (which are already pretty thin compared … at a national level the country might be spared the need for the ongoing operation of coal-hungry Huntly power station … (see this and this article). If we insulate our houses better now, we’ll need less heating in winter, and …
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Casting a long shadow: Infection drives stomach cancer inequalities in Māori and Pacific peoples
… in NZ. We also discuss a possible next step which could be for one DHB to pilot a ‘test and treat’ screening programme … ). This new study has substantial implications for how we might address excess stomach cancer deaths by ethnicity and how we address stomach cancer risk for all New Zealanders. There has been longstanding interest …
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