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Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19
… repeated PCR tests. Arrivals are also required to submit a negative PCR test result carried out 72 hours or less prior … for areas outside Auckland, not all Aucklanders need to show a negative test to cross the boundary into other parts … case rate in the vaccinated (unadjusted for testing rates) can be estimated to be 15 cases per million people per day. …
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Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change
… water infrastructure in this disaster and find evidence of a low level of resilience. It is clear that both central and … disadvantage. 14 Inability to access safe drinking water can be another stress on already fatigued, flood-weary … … Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change …
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Media release: Growing evidence linking plastics to serious health risk
… has grown substantially over the last five years. A Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre … are multiple exposure routes, for example, these chemicals can leach from packaging into food, or it may be through … into human tissues like the liver, brain, placenta, and blood, with potential impacts still under research,” she …
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Worth its weight: Building insulation in New Zealand
… to occupants, saves energy, enhances energy security, and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This blog looks at these … performance and insulation standards when it is such a good investment. The recently proposed changes to the … “incremental” heat loss reductions by improving insulation can all add up so that at a national level the country might …
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NZ falling behind on international rules to protect kids from food marketing
… connects us to people, cultures and the environment, and can be a source of great enjoyment. These benefits are interrupted … to global plastic pollution 3 . Recently WHO released a new set of guidelines on policies 1 needed to protect …
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Weekly deaths declined in NZ’s lockdown – but we still don’t know exactly why
… lower in 2020 than the three preceding years. There are a range of plausible reasons for this reduction (eg, fewer … evidence that the overall impact of recessions on health can be beneficial [11], since lives are saved by reduced road … injuries, and reductions in air pollution. Yet this can only be assessed over longer time periods and as argued …
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Expanding the Definition of Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Mindset Change to Help Achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa
… to tobacco/nicotine use. Hatsukami and Carroll proposed a commonly applied conceptualisation of harm reduction in … Aotearoa NZ, recent data reporting on smoking and vaping show rapid declines in smoking, 5 a finding that some have … failure to identify means by which smoked tobacco products can be made less harmful – though when addiction is …
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Media release: Aotearoa New Zealand is flying blind on misinformation
… A new Public Health Expert Briefing warns that Aotearoa New … a genuine threat to public health. Misleading information can lead to people taking potentially harmful bogus cures, … being shared. Public surveys over the last three years show that most New Zealanders are concerned about …
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Vaping prevalence and trends: Important findings from 2023-24 NZ Health Survey
… products and also support people who smoke to switch to a nicotine source that poses fewer physical harms. Vapes … to reduce smoking prevalence by offering people who smoke a less physically harmful alternative to smoking. However, vaping products are not harmless and can be highly addictive. Recent rapid increases in vaping …
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Media release: Good firearms law needs multiple defensive layers
… . Recent research has shown that the combined effect of a strong restrictive set of firearm policies is associated … deaths by 20% compared with individual policies which show only small or uncertain effects. Briefing co-author, … the “Swiss cheese” model for preventing system failures is a useful tool for considering firearms policy. “The Swiss …
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