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  • The Island Bay cycleway – Terribly important and nothing new

    … essence, this is a debate about the best use of a limited common resource. In Wellington and in many other cities the … is: how does the public road accommodate change?   What a mundane, boring story, you might think. Dedicated lanes for cyclists are being installed along The Parade in Island Bay, …
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  • Severe domestic squalor in Aotearoa New Zealand: A preliminary survey

    … squalor exist throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. There are significant health risks for these individuals as well as … suggestions for helping these people in their area. What is severe domestic squalor? In every community there is … has been defined as ‘severe domestic squalor’. 1  Common features for people living in these conditions include …
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  • Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic

    … diseases such as COVID-19 require us to draw on our common humanity and be explicit about our values. Recognising … health expertise in making the difficult decisions that are needed.   We are at phase 1 and 2 of the New Zealand … how we make decisions (see Table 1) and those informing what decisions we make (Table 2).  At each phase of our …
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  • Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking

    … consider these opportunities and barriers.  We believe we are at a moment in time when a major centralized investment … the benefits we can get from our data resources. So what are the barriers and gaps? First, researcher capacity … with many colleagues that there is a reasonably common view of the problems and opportunities across …
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  • Fast-track Bill puts NZ on wrong track, threatening public health

    … including mining and major roading projects, are highly likely to increase the country’s greenhouse gas … Parliament’s website until 19 April 2024.   Faster, but in what direction? The Coalition Government recently introduced … got a slow-growing economy; we've had productivity growth problems for 30 years. It's too hard to do things in this …
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  • The Omicron waves – Comparing Aotearoa NZ and Australia in four key graphs

    … NZ. However, when examining the Auckland region compared with the rest of NZ, Auckland’s experience of the first … and for future variants of concern. Priority areas are increasing vaccination coverage and improving mask use … transmission first reported in mid-January 2022 . What followed in both countries after the more highly …
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  • Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action

    … and the lowest death rate in the OECD. But there are ongoing risks – which may even be increasing with larger … status. It clearly needs to be strengthened given the problems identified with border control failures and rule … a vigorous, but highly disruptive, public health response. What still needs to be done by the NZ Government Reducing the …
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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … League Table , and focused on how it is important to know what you are comparing – the intervention description, and what it is … and research prioritisation could be improved with not only stand-alone simulation studies and cost …
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  • Tax reform pros & cons: A brief look from a Public Health perspective

    … more than others. In this blog we take a brief look at what potential there is for revising the NZ tax system from a … health, well-being or the state of the environment really are, the extent to which the system should be redistributive … for additional taxes to be used to address health problems. Similarly for using taxes to lower carbon emissions …
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  • Five actions to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, with a focus on Auckland

    … or transitions to a suppression approach, there are critical actions that can be taken to strengthen pandemic … high vaccine coverage; and increasing connections with the world to allow larger numbers of New Zealanders to … spent on efforts to manage Covid-19 transmission and the associated health and economic cost of both the pandemic and …
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