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  • Reducing the spread of antibiotic resistance in New Zealand, action is long overdue!

    … Summary Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) has had high rates of community antibiotic dispensing for many years, much of it … benefit.  An unavoidable consequence of the high rate of community antibiotic use in NZ is that the prevalence of … infections that may have a significant impact on the health of the unwell person. Any reductions in this …
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  • Lessons from jurisdictions that are battling their own Delta variant outbreaks

    … The first Delta-variant outbreak in the community brings a new challenge to Aotearoa New Zealand’s … of the pandemic virus. In this blog we discuss public health responses employed in other jurisdictions in response … new bookings in MIQ facilities to free up spaces for community cases. However, with NZ nearly two weeks into its …
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  • New Zealand’s poor pandemic preparedness according to the Global Health Security Index

    … The Global Health Security Index which considers pandemic threats has … country’s defences against pandemic threats. The Global Health Security Index (GHSI) The GHSI is the first ‘comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across the 195 …
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  • Tax policy reform: equity, fairness, and health

    … effectively with a daunting range of economic, social, health and climate change crises . Our tax system does not … More openness in the tax system - disclosure and public access to tax-related information. Tax is critical to … the essential services that support a well-functioning community and enable basic social, health, economic and …
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  • Why don’t we live as long and healthily as we could: social values and decision making

    … Welcome to this Public Health Expert Blog. This blog is going to consider what we … do, and what we probably should not do, to improve public health.  We will traverse the range from birth to end of life … and as evidence-based as possible. If I was Minister of Health (and everything else), I guarantee you that I could …
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  • Five key reasons why NZ should have an official inquiry into the response to the COVID-19 pandemic

    … lessons for the organisation and resourcing of public health more broadly. Fortunately, NZ has a fairly solid track … in improved systems that advance public safety and public health. New Zealand has collectively done an extraordinarily … other countries – which may ultimately reduce the total health and economic fallout from the lockdown and …
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  • Parliamentary voting for smokefree over two decades: Implications for future progress

    … The recent repeal of a key law to reduce the enormous health and economic burden from tobacco in Aotearoa NZ is a health, health equity, and economic tragedy. It occurred … public ,  young people , 8 and  people who smoke . 9 Many community leaders, health organisation leaders and the wider …
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  • Not forgetting the benefits to youth and non-smokers – an example from increases in tobacco taxes

    … the harm they face (eg, via appropriately regulated access to e-cigarettes) remains important. However, we need … it is smokers who suffer most immediately from the deadly health impacts of the tobacco industry’s products, and who … for low-income smokers. For example, smokers with Community Services Cards could get subsidised e-cigarettes …
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  • Decades old nutrition data leave NZ in the dark – updated nutrition survey needed

    … best to improve population eating habits, nutrition and health.  We outline why a new national nutrition survey is … public health policies, food industry actions, and community nutrition initiatives. NNS are also essential to … and monitor community-centred programmes to improve access to healthy food and support equitable health outcomes. …
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  • Preparing for Omicron: A proactive Government response is urgently needed to minimise harms

    … of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 to minimise harms to health and the economy. The first urgent priority is to … Delta variant in NZ. Since reaching a peak of around 200 community cases a day in mid-November 2021, Delta cases have … 1: New Zealand’s 7-day average of Covid-19 cases in the community (confirmed and probable) (from 1 February 2020 to …
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