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Youth vaping addiction: How it happens and why it matters
… harm. The Government should assist schools to take a health approach to youth vaping, and fund youth-specific … vape, and drives increasing frequency of use. 5 Cravings can become difficult to resist within a few weeks, although … 15-17 These far-reaching impacts of nicotine addiction can have cascading effects on adolescents’ life trajectories …
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Severe weather events linked to outbreaks of crypto in Aotearoa – New study
… weather events with heavy rainfall or flooding may play a role in the development of some outbreaks of this … Cryptosporidium are microscopic parasites that can cause gastrointestinal pain, diarrhea, vomiting and fever … rainfall 2-4 and temperature. 2 3 5 Heavy rainfall events can increase surface runoff of Cryptosporidium in the …
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Media release: NZ could eliminate the deadly meningococcal disease
… epidemiology. “If we combine that infrastructure with a strategic increase in funding and availability of … that often, the families who need these vaccines the most can’t afford them.” “Remarkably we saw meningococcal cases … removed. That tells us that simple public health measures can help to eliminate this preventable disease.” Dr Kvalsvig …
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Protecting children in cars from tobacco smoke: The inconsistent case of new mandatory child restraints while optional smoking persists
… regulation that protects children in the event of a car crash, but are unwilling to protect them from known … seventh birthday, and seven year olds must continue to use a child restraint if one is available. 1 The NZ Transport … in cars not only poses an immediate health risk, but can probably induce nicotine dependence 11 and is an …
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Surviving winter: NZ’s journey through 145 years of seasonal survival – New study
… Winter Mortality (EWM) in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) for a 145 year period (from 1876 to 2020). We found that the … to 1.14 in the 2010s. In percentage terms, there was a favourable decline in winter excess deaths from 7.9% of … deserves further investigation to better understand how we can intervene to reduce this annual excess of deaths. 6 …
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Media release: What can we do to reduce the number of babies dying before, during or soon after birth?
… more than 700 fetal and neonatal deaths in 2021, that’s a rate of 11.2 per 1000 births according to the Perinatal and … access to scanning, the opening of the uterus (cervix) can be monitored in early pregnancy and treatment to support the cervix to stay closed if needed can lower the risk of early birth.” She lists other measures …
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Consumer Care Guidelines for electricity retailers must be mandatory
… for electricity retailers mandatory to protect health. A new report shows up to 55% of residential consumers are not … Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 – and the EA can propose amendments to the Code so that it delivers better … everyone has access to warm, dry, healthy housing; We can’t wait another winter without basic standards of care …
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Public Health Solutions Series: Two Injury Prevention Strategies to Reduce Pressure on the Health System
… been modelled for the NZ setting where we considered a one-off 15 cent ($0.15) increase in tax per standard drink … over is   50 milligrams (mg) per 100 millilitres (ml) of blood (equivalent to a 0.05% blood alcohol concentration [BAC] by volume). For NZ …
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Do Aotearoa’s new vaping regulations go far enough?
… reported by ethnicity). Analyses of NZ Health survey data show that current (at least monthly) use of electronic … products to have removable or replaceable batteries, a measure that should limit sales of cheap disposable vapes … have become addicted to nicotine through vaping so they can become vape-free. We welcome steps to protect rangatahi; …
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The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review
… health impacts. Impact for military personnel who left NZ A summary of the health impacts for military personnel who left NZ for the war is detailed in Table 1 (a simplified version of the one published in our article [1], … payments to veterans in 1921 (32,000). The war also cast a very long shadow and NZ military personnel kept dying from …
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