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  • Aotearoa’s perinatal and maternal death rates remain inequitable and unjust

    … adds: Detailed data collection and analysis enables the health and social sectors to understand mortality and health inequities for whānau in the perinatal period in … Professor Liza Edmonds - National Centre for Women's Health Research Aotearoa, Te Tātai Hauora o Hine Victoria …
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  • Climate Change and Recent Actions of NZ Political Parties

    … A/Prof Ralph Chapman, Prof Philippa Howden-Chapman The health organisation OraTaiao convened a group of experts to … with both opportunities for advancing development and health [1] and also a range of possible disastrous outcomes … the retrofit programme in the middle of 2018 (despite the health and economic case for this investment being very …
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  • Is NZ a laggard in responding to climate change?: Results of a Global Index

    … citizen” in terms of the global environment and global health. The latest version of the “ Climate Change … European Union countries. But it was ahead of Japan (47), Australia (42) and Canada (40). The specific details of the … NZ food exports and the tourism industry. New Zealanders’ health would probably benefit from the co-benefits arising …
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  • Can we manage dual use of smoking and vaping more effectively?

    … accelerate smoking cessation, and therefore improve the health of many New Zealanders. It could also support the … exclusive vaping, means smokers continue to face serious health risks from coronary heart disease and stroke, even if … misconceptions that reduced smoking will bring large health benefits need to be challenged. Again, clear advice at …
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  • Media release: Another Havelock North? Govt undoing protections for drinking water safety

    … Public health experts are warning that by dismantling protections … and thousands ill. The latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre— Another Havelock North? Govt … interests (Te Mana o te Wai). This was a major public health gain. Additionally, the Resource Management Act (RMA) …
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  • Media release: Can we move to a low carbon, healthy transport system?

    … country according to results of a survey by the Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC). This is the third in our … pricing and shifting Aotearoa NZ to more sustainable and health promoting transport. Lead author Associate Professor … promising in terms of reducing emissions and improving health but still has gaps.” says Dr Shaw. The results of the …
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  • Do Aotearoa’s new vaping regulations go far enough?

    … day (data were not reported by ethnicity). Analyses of NZ Health survey data show that current (at least monthly) use … uptake of a highly addictive product. 2   A Ministry of Health statement noted that Cabinet had approved measures to … in the last year. However, during the same period, the NZ Health Survey reported that 119,000 young people aged 15 to …
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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … that diet and the association of saturated fat with health is not complex, not nuanced, and does not vary over … disease and stroke.  But the effect of saturated fat on health will vary by things like: the ratio of polyunsaturated … in the BMJ – meeting with rebuttal at The Conversation in Australia.  This side of the ditch, Professor Grant Schofield …
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  • A 100 years ago today – the likely first NZ death from the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … highlight the importance of continuing to invest in public health infrastructure and pandemic preparedness and planning. … single natural disaster to kill New Zealanders in recorded history. Around 9000 NZ citizens died – as per the updated … salt in processed foods [19-21]). Strengthening public health capacity of the Ministry of Health – which has been …
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  • Media release: Increasing speed limits defies the science - more deaths and pollution predicted

    … to experts.  In  the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre the University of Canterbury’s … Angela Curl of the University of Otago, have examined the health impacts of raising speed limits. They say the … higher speed limits have a significant negative impact on health and wellbeing and will cost the country financially.” …
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