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  • Smokefree cars legislation: Should the new government make this a priority?

    … calendar will be packed with efforts to catch up on matters that have been left largely to market forces. … that suggests that over 100,000 children aged 16 and under travel in smoky cars every week. Over 30% of Māori Year … of Pacific students. Māori students were more likely to report frequent exposure (over 3 times in last week).[6] A …
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  • Smoking prevalence and trends: key findings in the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey

    … the Action Plan and Smokefree legislation  and information on the repeal  are on our website. In November 2023, Aotearoa’s new coalition … every year. Full details of the methods and a methodology report are available on the Ministry of Health website . Data …
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  • Stubbing out democracy: no Government mandate for smokefree repeal

    … in its manifesto. None of the parties campaigned on the issue (even NZ First) and, to our knowledge, repeal … is considering introducing the repeal and other measures under ‘urgency’, and curtailing the regulatory impact … deep concerns expressed by numerous groups, including 105 medical, health, education and social service organisations …
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  • Shifting all isolation/quarantine facilities to a single air force base: The need for a critical analysis

    … worker in August was infected from a returnee, based on genetic sequencing of the virus [2]. As the suspected mode … (some of which are high-end) is estimated to be almost $ 500 million until the end of the year for the 32 hotel … facilities at Ōhakea is likely to be far less than the $500 million expected for hotel-based facilities by the end of …
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  • An upgraded Alert Level 2 is urgently needed to address the Delta Variant threat

    … is elevated.   Photo by  Anna Tarazevich  from  Pexels On 17 August 2021, a community case with Delta variant … not adequately address the risk of airborne transmission. Under the proposed Alert Level 2+, people should be required … of 100 people indoors (with this being the number allowed under the current Alert Level 2), but adding a 200-person …
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  • Likely rise in invasive strep infections in NZ requires a strategy

    … reporting increases in cases of iGAS, with children under the age of 10 the most affected group. In Aotearoa New … people suffer from serious GAS disease with an associated 500,000 deaths annually. 1 2 The focus of this article is on invasive GAS disease (iGAS). These are the rare cases …
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  • Public Health Solutions Series: Where the sun enters, the doctor does not

    … at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly.   To keep well, everybody needs … Three ways improving houses can relieve pressure on the health system are home heating, reducing home injury … the home were reduced by 31%. As well as reducing stress on the health system, increasing home safety can reduce …
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  • Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?

    … (Auckland University Press).   If you stop and ask people on the street, nine out of ten (including the overweight … he has lost about 100kg in weight, and put about 95kg back on (2). If motivation and education were the keys to staying … in the US, a woman weighing 30kg above ideal weight earned on average 9% less, equivalent to 3 years of work experience …
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  • Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes

    … to minimally addictive levels. The decision drew on strong scientific evidence that denicotinising cigarettes … this measure (see figure).   Lack of negative impacts on people who smoke Some opponents claim denicotinisation … cigarettes and other combustible tobacco products are on the cusp of dramatically reducing tobacco-related death …
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  • Children and young people and COVID-19: The urgent need for improved guidance in NZ

    … requiring pandemic response strategies to be built on evidence that has uncertain aspects and is evolving. … a quarter (29/108) of the cases in Outbreak 2 have been under 20 years (10% aged 0 to 9 years, and 17% aged 10 to 19 … (at present the WHO does not recommend masks for children under 5 years). The evidence for transmission in primary-age …
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