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June PHCC newsletter
… we feature emerging pandemics, declining youth mental health, greenhouse gas emissions, extreme weather events, and … a shrinking budget to address the social determinants of health. The newsletter recaps Briefings from the last month …
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Media release: A call for strong leadership to reduce NZ’s dangerously high antibiotic use
… disease physician. In the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre, Associate Professor Mark Thomas … patients with conditions in which antibiotics do provide a health benefit.” While Te Whatu Ora and the Royal New Zealand …
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In the news: Assoc Health Minister considers allowing oral nicotine products
… RNZ's Midday Report on 18 July that Associate Minister of Health Casey Costello is ignoring her Ministry's advice about … the release of the Briefing - Mind the gap: Associate Health Minister’s actions conflict with Ministry advice, … the tobacco lobby's talking points. … In the news: Assoc Health Minister considers allowing oral nicotine products …
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In the news: Concern over changes to insulation standards
… Public health researchers are urging the government not to tamper … with existing insulation standards. University of Otago health research fellow Dr Lucy Telfar-Barnard spoke to Corin …
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Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?
… treatments for obesity in children (despite Minister of Health Coleman’s assertions to the contrary), I share … with its citizens’ best interests at heart (and future health budgets) to change tack? Most of the adult population … case, e.g., in 2012 the annual cost to the New Zealand health system of obesity was estimated at NZ$624 million …
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Why are some preventable cancer deaths in Māori and Pacific peoples increasing?
… from National Nutrition Surveys (NNS) and New Zealand Health Surveys (NZHS) use an obesity definition of a BMI of … are largely driven by the social determinants of health, flowing through to risk factors such as tobacco, … modifiable risk factor mediators of ethnic inequalities in health. If NZ policy-makers are concerned about reducing the …
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Media release: Regulator failure on nitrate in drinking water dumps escalating costs on those downstream
… failure according to the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre. The Briefing reports that while … face escalating costs to ensure their drinking water meets health standards, with some already looking at new water …
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The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ
… and healthy who incur higher infection rates? Under a health gain maximising utilitarian framework, yes. So long as … enough to get very sick deserve prioritisation of critical care facilities over the elderly and people of all ages with … minus 10,000). So these analyses suggest a strong extra health benefit of the eradication strategy over the ‘flatten …
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Five Potential Enhancements of Covid-19 Outbreak Control in Aotearoa NZ
… setting nationwide and has expanded mask requirements. The health work force is conducting extensive contact tracing, … tracing more difficult, slower, and less complete for health authorities. Therefore, QR code scanning should be … details. All authors are at the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington … Five Potential …
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Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa
… family relationship breakdown, sexual abuse, and poor health. 1,2 LGBTIQ+ people have specific needs around … had a strong activist spirit and a strong sense of care and compassion for people who were struggling, driven in … research was funded by a University of Otago Division of Health Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Rule Foundation …
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