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Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand
… in public housing in both urban and regional areas as well as large budget allocations for infrastructure, but there is … had 200,000 interactions with government services. 5 The potential benefits (net of costs) of responding in this …
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Faster mortality decline – slower population ageing. How could this be?
… the radio, where someone is invoking the aging population as a harbringer of doom and gloom due to the tsunami of older … talking about the number of people aged greater than 65 as a marker of some dependency on the state?”. Well, this … a year, the most rapid improvement of any age group (5)! It does not take too much reflection to realise that as …
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COVID-19 and Māori health – when equity is more than a word
… As Māori academics, researchers and health professionals, we … of health inequities within our society, frame equity as an add-on to a substantial list of other ‘equally’ … 4 and almost three times more likely to die than Pākehā. 5 Such outcomes are not only unjust and unfair, they are …
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Where do the parties stand? Taxes to protect health and reduce inequity
… proposed by two parties ( Te Pāti Māori and the Greens); as well as compensating forms of wealth taxes. Although all parties … other hand the party favours a flat income tax rate of 17.5%, 3 which is higher than the current 10.5% level for up to …
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Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes
… also accelerate switching to alternative products such as vaping devices resulting in reduced exposure to toxicants. … tobacco control is rich with initiatives once thought of as impossible but later seen as visionary as measures become … reduced satisfaction with smoking and dependence, 4,5 and increased quit rates. 6-8 These observations are seen …
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Nine things New Zealand must do to tackle the child obesity crisis
… second Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-Epi) (5) conducted in New Zealand in April-May 2017. The Food-EPI as a rigorous tool and process to measure implementation gaps … experts from low, middle and high income countries as well as senior representatives from the World Health …
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Improving NZ Government communication about COVID-19: Five suggestions
… performing countries. 1 2 NZ’s economic indicators, such as GDP impacts, also compare favourably to other countries … 3 4 Furthermore, the communication by leaders such as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been noted for its level … engagement and high quality both by experts in leadership 5 and others. 6 7 Scholars have particularly noted the …
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Media release: New Zealand urged to boost pandemic preparedness as bird flu spreads in US cattle
… A(H5N1) virus. This strain of what is commonly known as ‘bird flu’ has sparked concerns globally as it continues to adapt and infect new hosts, including … is up to scratch and ready for emerging threats such as H5N1. Careful reviewing of our pandemic plan, as well as …
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Perspective: Who is responsible for stopping NZ’s obesity epidemic?
… failures that render (non-regulated) free-market solutions as doomed to fail. The views in this blog are expanded in … are deeply held (1). So when nihilistic biologists such as myself suggest there is no such thing as free will, it’s … in the B4 school check will likely do more harm than good (5). That is, a targeted individual-level approach to tackling …
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What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective
… from “The Pursuit” at Melbourne University, Australia As Australia looks toward opening its international borders, … can help us decide what’s the right risk to tolerate. As Australia inches up its vaccine rollout , the question of … virus in the pre-COVID-19 world with no restrictions of 5.0 and 6.0. 3) The policy settings we use for outbreaks and …
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