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COVID-19 in Aotearoa: what does public health do now?
… in case and contact management for Auckland cases. How long COVID-19 can be kept out of further regions is unclear, … becoming seriously unwell from their life-threatening long-term conditions, presenting to hospital later or not at …
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Emphasis on indigenous forests in ETS would benefit public health
… stored in exotic plantation forests is less secure in the long term than in indigenous forests. Trees like pines “may … ones…” 14 This susceptibility to fires also degrades the long-term carbon capture of plantation forests relative to …
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Regulating vaping and new nicotine products: Are tobacco companies’ goals aligned with public health objectives?
… will soon have the opportunity to make submissions on the long-awaited Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products … evidence that suggests these products could have similar long-term health effects to smoked tobacco.[5-8] Figure 4. Source: …
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Cyclone Gabrielle joins list of Aotearoa NZ’s ‘sudden mass fatality events’
… other impacts on human health and wellbeing. In the short term these would be due to evacuations, power outages, and … are some key potential measures: A major shift to long-term thinking by governments with the appropriate … previous Briefing 6 ). In particular, there is a need for long-term thinking around resilient infrastructure (ie, …
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Improving the health of our children: Project Energize bang for the health $
… (QALY). [Editorial note: it is always hard to estimate the long-term health impacts (largely non-communicable disease rates … simply have to accept that there is uncertainty about the long-term health impacts of childhood interventions]. How did …
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Increases in speed limits: Unjust and unjustifiable
… to which our vehicles are configured that takes a longer-term view of societal, environmental and economic wellbeing. … cannot happen in narrow sector silos and must take a long-term view that fosters public good. Setting road speed … address risks on our roads there needs to be a long term plan to reduce road injury in Aotearoa New Zealand …
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Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa
… the necessity of survival restricting agency; and the long-term effect of concealing identities and coping with shame, … and bolstering renters' rights significantly would make long-term renting a more viable option. Many of the findings …
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Making tobacco less available is both necessary and feasible – New NZ study
… to ask in relation to a product range about which the long-term health effects are still largely unknown. Yet the … meaning those retailers can continue selling tobacco as long as they stay in business. Our just published [1] …
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Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing
… 4,131 transitional houses, but these houses have shorter term leases compared to public housing and mean the children … 2023 Wellbeing Budget has now taken an even more long-sighted view by expanding the Warmer Kiwi Homes … not necessarily reflect Board policy. … Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing …
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The health impacts of the First World War for NZ: A Review
… the high level of wounded personnel (41,000), and the long-term burden of disabilities as suggested by war pension … to veterans in 1921 (32,000). The war also cast a very long shadow and NZ military personnel kept dying from …
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