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  • Food poverty for NZ teens creating an achievement lag of up to four years

    … is taken into account. Furthermore, the 2022/23 NZ Health Survey revealed the largest jump on record for … run out of food sometimes or often in the last year (NZ Health Survey) One effective intervention and a major safety … and remove this barrier to learning are required, with Health Coalition Aotearoa calling for the number of schools …
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  • A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development

    … and people, and are therefore critical for supporting health and wellbeing by reinforcing identity, belonging and … Are kāinga and urban planning, design, development and management informed by the views of mana whenua and m … to create spaces that enable Māori wellbeing. (For more information see the published paper ). We acknowledge that …
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  • Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic

    … public. However, its real importance may not be the modest health gains that result from controlling the availability of … hazardous products with a much greater impact on public health. Consider this new law in more detail. A key principle …
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  • Climate change and cherry blossom

    … Alistair was Convening Lead Author of Chapter 11 (Human Health) in the 5 th IPCC Assessment Report. A commentary on … are moderated by other factors (living conditions and health care, for instance). AR5 drew on studies that modelled for the first time the potential health consequences of changes in climate alongside projected …
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  • Cyclone Gabrielle by the numbers – A review at six months

    … from media reports, government statements, Official Information Act Requests, and data provided by private … injuries, such as concussion, can result in months of poor health. These reported injuries do not take  account of the … improvements in resilience. Implications for public health policy and practice Protecting public health is a …
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  • The marked decline of sudden mass fatality events in NZ (1900 to 2015)

    … there is a need to put these in a wider context of health loss for the country. For example, if these premature … This suggests that addressing the major causes of health loss in NZ (eg, from the obesity epidemic and the … ideally, factored into such comparisons should also be non-health variables; eg, events like earthquakes can also …
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  • A policy and research agenda for roll-your-own tobacco

    … TM cigarette smokers to have co-morbidities such as mental health illnesses, illicit drug addictions, and risky drinking … stereotypes (15). We identified two strategies: the association of beneficial attributes with RYO tobacco and the … RYO rolling papers and filters currently have no warning information and could be required to use the standardised …
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  • The Island Bay cycleway – Terribly important and nothing new

    … the city safer and more attractive for carbon-sparing, health-promoting bicycling, according to some. Unnecessary … shapes how we live, and consequently determines the health and well-being of populations. But it is nothing new. … * Professor Alistair Woodward, School of Population Health, Auckland University … The Island Bay cycleway – …
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  • SARS-CoV-2: A modern Greek Tragedy?

    … lab leak must be massively increased given the additional information contained in (5). Furthermore, if we do not find … then, in research funded by the US National Institute of Health, taking place at the Wuhan Institute of Virology: “Dr. … advance ‘funeral by funeral’. Greek Tragedy As one public health physician has recently put it: “The irony is that it …
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  • Note to the Havelock North Inquiry – Think Big

    … not just for reasons of taste, but also, possibly, for health reasons (such as risks associated with chlorinated … average. Environmental pressures are evident also in the health statistics. New Zealand has very high rates of endemic … entitled “From hazard to habitat: rethinking environmental health” (McMichael 1999). He argued that the arrival of …
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