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  • How should we manage the harm caused by tobacco product waste?

    … the market share of filtered cigarette brands grew rapidly from 1955 onwards, while the share of non-filtered brands … mistaken belief that filters reduced the risk they face from smoking, nearly all cigarettes smoked now contain … of smokers , and relocating responsibility away from tobacco companies. Recent debate has refocussed …
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  • The Havelock North drinking water inquiry: A wake-up call to rebuild public health in New Zealand

    … managing at the national level, for example the following: Food safety – managed by the Ministry of Primary Industries … of the pesticide glyphosate despite opposition from the Ministry of Health (see this previous blog ). This … acknowledged the importance of protecting source water from such threats and includes some recommendations on …
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  • Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive

    … (non-Māori) had the highest life expectancy in the world from 1870 to 1940? Or that life expectancy for Māori rose by … to shared risk factors. Overall we have seen a major shift from cardiovascular causes to cancer deaths. Ask most people … leukemia, but decreasing for stomach cancer. But mortality from all cancers combined (age-standardised) has been falling …
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  • COVID-19 in Aotearoa: what does public health do now?

    … stretched. We will see people becoming seriously unwell from their life-threatening long-term conditions, presenting … and diagnostic services will exacerbate the burden from cancer, avoidable child health conditions and mental … health benefit as possible – whether that means providing food, phones, vaccination or diabetes medication. Referrals …
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  • Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … for the extreme hot and cold temperatures resulting from climate change. Our Building Code standards are below … not least because the costs of the burden of disease from poor housing are substantial. 3 Good systems planning is … to find their way through the system to find a home. Aside from K ā inga Ora, the Ministry of Housing and Urban …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … Dr Matt Boyd (syndicated from the blog site of “ Adapt Research ” ) WHO? The Emergency … get the extinguisher. It’s OK to close borders to arrivals from a disease epicentre. It’s OK to put masks on in public. … a strong case for multilateralism and the world needs to remove obstacles to a precautionary approach that were …
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  • Covid-19 was no black swan, but a paradigmatic black elephant

    … 201 ’ pandemic exercise. This exercise involved leaders from a number of public and private global organisations … happens. Usually the experts who had predicted the event – from the economic crisis to pandemic flu—go from being marginalized to being lionized when the problem …
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  • The COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa/NZ: A brief photo-essay with 10 photos

    … Government listened to science input and changed direction from the mitigation approach of its pandemic influenza plan … built at a place like Ōhakea air base for people coming from high risk countries. 16 For example, Australia is making … Kōkiri Marae with an example of cold goods included in food packages (8 April). This Marae distributed the packages …
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  • The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree

    … of the Child (UNCROC) to ensure children are protected from the harms associated with smoking. In recent years, the … influenced study conclusions (10). Photo: Elsa Olofsson From: Unsplash KIDS EXPERIMENTING OR TOMORROW’S HEALTH INEQUITY? Data from the 2018 Youth Insights Survey (11) show that the …
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  • Vaccination is often cost-effective but not (currently) HPV vaccination for boys in NZ

    … PHARMAC has now taken over the role of price negotiating from the Ministry of Health (since PHARMAC can negotiate … prices at the same time as contracts for other products from the same vaccine/pharmaceutical manufacturers). A lower … boys and young men who are gay to get the HPV vaccination from their GPs or sexual health clinics. Advertising on …
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