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  • Charting our way back to normal

    … elimination – approximating the responses by New South Wales to outbreaks (later to lockdown, earlier out, rely more … using the  COVID-19 Pandemic Trade-off  web tool, and make your own interpretations. As our knowledge improves – …
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  • Being forced to leave your rental home can harm health

    … or friends or important places. Participants struggled to make sense of what had happened, often emphasising how well … of legal action: ‘getting compensation isn’t going to get me another home…It’s time I don’t have’ (Kaia). Eviction can …
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  • Smart party pill law makes tobacco & alcohol regulation look pathetic

    … psychoactive substance”. However, subsequent sub-sections make it clear that this definition does not include alcohol … By contrast, party pills do not feature on this list, and make a relatively minor contribution to New Zealand’s burden …
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  • Advance Care Planning – good for patient care and better use of health dollars?

    … a rest home. I remember visiting her there and her telling me that she really did not want to be there and that there … something as simple as a conversation had the potential to make such a difference? Author: Dr Ben Gray,   General …
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  • Introducing the Public Health Solutions Blog Series

    … to contribute short blogs on the interventions that would make a real and immediate difference to our health services. … controversial, some will seem common sense, but all would make a much-needed difference to our health services. New …
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  • The Two-Faced Tobacco Industry: Transformation and Cigarillos

    … the economic pressure to decrease tobacco consumption or make a quit attempt. The availability of Chesterfield Leaf … all smoked tobacco products. However, policy makers should make at least three other responses. First, they should … on the Bill made by tobacco companies or groups they fund make should be treated separately from other submissions and …
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  • Protecting hapu māmā and newborn babies through immunisation during pregnancy in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … the information and services to them so whānau are able to make informed decisions and then access the services they … , Women’s And Children’s Health | Te Tari Hauora Wāhine me te Tamariki, Dunedin School of Medicine | Te Kura Whaiora … , Women’s And Children’s Health | Te Tari Hauora Wāhine me te Tamariki, Dunedin School of Medicine | Te Kura Whaiora …
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  • High levels of CO2 found in small study of early childhood centres: Improving ventilation in the time of COVID-19

    … in the results and what actions they could take to make the children’s environments healthier. This is … related to disease transmission they at least help “make an invisible problem visible” 10 . Two main …
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  • Proposals to reduce youth vaping: Important steps but a more comprehensive approach needed

    …  Post-legislation, promotions have continued as marketers make sophisticated use of social media to create personally … smoke access vapes or e-liquids. Second, this step would make vaping products less visible to young people, who often … noted that “ 86% of 14-17 years old from New South Wales had tried disposable vapes ”, it is not clear why she …
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  • Lessons learned from a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa

    … smartphone application (app), a tool to help people make lower-salt food choices when shopping for food (Figure … pieces of technology i.e., their ability to exchange and make best use of study information: we had a web-based …
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