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  • In the news: PHCC launch

    … Professor Michael Baker explained the Centre aims to improve health, equity and the environment through better … with New Zealand research. Epidemiologist Michael Baker to head new public health communication project RNZ's Morning …
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  • In the news: Call for CO2 monitors for early childhood centres featured

    … (ECEs). As part of a bigger article on the early start to the flu season, Dr Jonathan Jarman was interviewed about the study and the call for CO2 metres to be freely supplied to all ECEs. … In the news: Call for CO2 monitors for early …
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  • In the news: Free school lunch programme should be expanded

    … Professor Boyd Swinburn talked to the Panel on RNZ about the cost-of-healthy- food crisis in … Expanding Ka Ora, Ka Ako is ‘bread and butter’ action to alleviate the cost-of-healthy-food crisis  which describes how the doubling of the free school lunch programme can help …
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  • In the news: Serious water infrastructure funding needed - researchers say

    … interviewed on RNZ’s Morning Report on 26 May in relation to our Briefing - Water infrastructure failures from Cyclone Gabrielle show low resilience to climate change . Marnie also talked about the Briefing …
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  • In the news: PHCC co-hosts political panel on prevention

    … about that in our Briefing .  Stuff's Rachel Thomas spoke to public health experts after the panel to gauge reaction for her article, Reti riles health minister with his pledge to axe Māori Health Authority . The fresh insight into …
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  • In the news: Food poverty for NZ teens creates achievement lag of up to four years

    … on well-being show students who are missing meals are two to four years behind their peers in their PISA results. … poverty for NZ teens creating an achievement lag of up to four years .  … In the news: Food poverty for NZ teens creates achievement lag of up to four years …
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  • In the news: Winter jump in deaths expected

    … biggest drivers remain. “The things that are more likely to kill people in winter, compared to other seasons, are respiratory illnesses,” said study … influenza – pre-Covid modelling attributed the flu to 500 deaths in New Zealand each year – and others like …
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  • Submission: Inquiry into climate adaptation

    … Read the PHCC submission to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee on the … ecosystem health and equity as essential principles to achieve this (and other) objectives. Read the full PHCC submission to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee on the …
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  • In the news: New dementia research highlights deprivation as major reason Māori and Pacific people more at risk

    … fuelling the country’s soaring rates of dementia. Dr Ma'u from the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland, spoke to the New Zealand Herald about their findings which indicate … and Pacific people are not at more risk of dementia due to their ethnicity as such, but because they are …
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  • In the news: NZ needs to up its game on invasive strep infections

    … Health experts say NZ needs to track invasive strep A as cases surge offshore  was the … on TodayFM on 23 March. … In the news: NZ needs to up its game on invasive strep infections …
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