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Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant
… ignored all these warnings SARS-CoV-2 emerged in 2019 with dire consequences The fact that all these warnings were … has shown that these kinds of rare but devastating events are exactly the ones humans tend to overlook. As if to drive … tens of millions of dollars thrown at understanding these problems, in order to draw the possibility space of …
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Public Health Solutions Series: Achieving a Smokefree Aotearoa
… Plan and Bill recognise that Māori should be fully engaged with leadership and oversight of implementation. Mandated … , including from Aotearoa, find that people who smoke and are provided with denicotinised cigarettes find them less … smoke LESS (not more as critics often falsely claim ), and are more likely to make quit attempts and stop smoking. Young …
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Engaging online simulator of measles outbreaks (& how NZ needs to do better in eliminating measles)
… again” button a few times and see how the communities with relatively high vaccine coverage will tend to avoid … that the vaccines in the childhood immunisation schedule are all for diseases that can have serious consequences (2). Measles for example is the most common vaccine-preventable cause of death for children …
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Media release: Rise in congenital syphilis requires action – experts
… could help. Congenital syphilis occurs when a mother with syphilis passes the infection on to her baby during … analysis. “Although infants with congenital syphilis are born to women who are less likely to have received … skin rashes and those with no initial symptoms may develop problems over years including deafness, eye disease, …
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Tackling child poverty: will the nation’s political leaders honour Richie Poulton’s legacy?
… as they grew into teenagers, then adults. The participants are now in their early fifties and the study continues. And … And these can help illuminate the causes of societal problems such as crime, violence, low educational attainment, … Poulton stressed this point : ...you can't really undo what happens during childhood… experience of intense or …
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The need for an expanded national smokefree law – just got more critical
… of buildings (where smoking is permitted in New Zealand) are determined in practice. In this blog post we consider the … Environments Act. The view of these organisations equated with our own experience where we have observed very enclosed … be difficult to do and that there would continue to be problems. This is because the Smoke-free Environments Act has …
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Tobacco Excise Taxes and the Smokefree 2025 Goal: Some Ways Forward
… inequalities, 7-10 as the people most likely to quit are those with fewer financial resources (and thus greater price … smoking had not changed among Pacific peoples (24%). So what should we make of calls to abandon tobacco excise …
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Evidence for free school lunches: The impact of hunger on learning
… factors. By definition, schools that receive the lunches are lower advantage than schools that don’t and accordingly, … students in food poverty (overall and for Māori) and associated PISA maths achievement from regression model after … hunger 8 and less hunger improves school achievement. What’s new in this briefing? We report high rates of food …
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A call for smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’
… In keeping with the issues covered in this week’s new book “ Appetite for Destruction “, we are calling for some smart food policies to create an ‘appetite for health’. In this blog, we discuss what a new network of university researchers and NGOs are …
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Politicians in Aotearoa NZ live longer than other Kiwis and the gap keeps widening
… In some of the studied countries, relative inequalities “are at the greatest level in over 150 years”, with the US standing out in this regard. There were 889 NZ … Politicians and General Populace in 11 Select Nations What may account for politicians living longer? One of the …
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