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Charting our way back to normal
… A new web tool, COVID-19 Pandemic Trade-offs, allows people to weigh the costs and benefits of different policy responses as Australia rolls out vaccines … from Pursuit The burning COVID-19 question this year is – “When can we get back to normal?” Or more …
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Media release: A new voice to boost New Zealand’s response to major public health challenges
… Health Communication Centre (PHCC) will boost the impact of research to improve health and equity in Aotearoa New … that success. “At the same time, we are lagging behind many high-income countries in some areas such as infant … of articles on key public health issues this election year. They will look at areas such as planning for the long …
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Obesity at last on Government agenda, but will Healthy Families NZ be good enough ?
… are available, it is pertinent to ask – what is HTV, how could it be adapted for New Zealand, and will it work? … Australia’s one in four), it is steadily increasing (while many OECD countries, including the US, are flattening or … always been part of traditional health promotion, training people to predominantly ‘see and think’ systems and work ‘in …
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Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?
… at Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred out by Google’s algorithm for … “Tobacco Control”. In this blog we briefly consider some of the research possibilities of this tool of relevance to … of building features that reflect guidelines for people with disabilities (ie, as per the Americans with …
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Introducing the Public Health Solutions Blog Series
… one author put it “the rules of engagement” underpinning how the health system works have changed . Covid-19 has … or train our way out of this. Health professionals take many years to train and almost every high-income country is … seemed to reduce in Māori (but not non-Māori/non-Pacific people) during the 2020 lockdown. This is a grim …
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FoodSwitch. Smartphone consumers beat industry to better labeling
… to understand. Our colleagues at the National Institute of Health and Innovation (NIHI), University of Auckland, are … has just taken the bull by the horns, and announced a two-year phase in period for a front-of-pack star labelling … innovative, and with options? We are likely to see many Australasian food products with a star label as per the …
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What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.
… Tony Blakely The New Zealand Government has a goal of a Smokefree Nation by 2025, often interpreted as a smoking … Essentially, 10% of non-Māori smokers need to quit each year to achieve 5% smoking prevalence by 2025 for … far reaching, and markedly drive up cessation How can we do it? One possibility comes from work from the …
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Media release: International experts say abandoning denicotinised cigarettes will cost lives
… say abandoning denicotinised cigarettes in the repeal of the smokefree legislation in Aotearoa New Zealand will … risks seeing around 5000 New Zealanders continue to die every year from smoking and a persistence of associated … satisfaction with smoking, and dependence, while helping people quit. Modelling studies also show denicotinisation …
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Proposed Emissions Reduction Plan: A weak response to a weak target
… emissions trading and technological advances, the latter of which are highly speculative and uncertain. Even if the … the international community’s efforts to reduce the impact of climate change. 1 The NDC, endorsed by successive NZ … and from 2030 for the petrochemical industry. But CCS is many times more costly than reducing emissions in the first …
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Media release: Our fourth wave of Covid-19 and why we should care
… says New Zealand is clearly experiencing a fourth wave of Covid-19 and health authorities should be reminding us … two months. But other factors such as waning immunity and people spending more time indoors in autumn may be … markedly more likely to be admitted to hospital and die from this infection.” The Briefing authors stress …
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