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  • Why don’t we make rental housing safer?

    … interventions? We unpack the narrative around home injury and find progress in addressing safety via rental … institutional arrangements that favour the framing of home injury as a product of individual behaviour and culpability … more likely to be injured 2,3 , in part because of greater injury hazards in rental housing 4,5 . There were nearly …
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  • Why do so many fear the bicycle?

    … we have just published quantifying the risk of cycling injury. We found it to be low compared to other activites … last week we set out to determine how big the risk of injury due to cycle crashes actually is, and how it compares with injury risk of other common activities in New Zealand. What …
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  • Seven decades of severe weather events in Aotearoa New Zealand: What are the human health impacts?

    … to explore patterns in severe weather events causing human injury since 1950 in NZ, and to identify other human impacts … costs from severe weather events that are linked with injury. What did we find? As of 10 February 2022, there were … were identified as being associated with any non-fatal injury or death (Figure 2). While there appeared to be a drop …
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  • Long COVID: a crucial reason for vax, mask, and distance

    … muscles, the immune system, eyes, kidneys, and erectile tissue. There is, to date, quite consistent evidence that … (i) greater reduction in grey matter thickness and tissue-contrast (change in diffusion measures are proxies for … In a small post-COVID-only imaging study of myocardial injury (damage to heart muscle), myocardial inflammation was …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … (as well as other organs) appear to be associated with: tissue damage consequent upon invasion, virus replication and tissue destruction (e.g., encephalitis; myocarditis); the … eight with LGE but without evidence of prior myocardial injury. In a study of 101 patients (average age 49 years) …
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  • Dementia: Update on causes and prevention, including the role of COVID-19

    … . It is a consequence of a variety of brain disorders and injury and one of the major causes of disability among older … and changes in contrast-medium diffusion as a proxy for tissue damage; b) greater evidence of tissue damage in regions functionally connected to the …
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  • A 100 years ago: The worst year of the First World War for New Zealand

    … analysis of deaths in the Roll-of-Honour [1] shows that injury deaths predominated (at 92.8%), followed by deaths … recorded history). Medical (and military) advances Most injury deaths involved outright death: “killed in action”. … (potentially up to weeks/months later). The proportion of injury deaths that were in this category did not trend …
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  • The Government’s transport plans work against our health

    … and doctor visits every year through air pollution, injury, noise pollution and physical inactivity. The policies … we have extremely high levels of harm for both transport injury and transport sourced NO 2 air pollution.  (See … than $10.5 billion. 27  The social costs of road traffic injury are about another $11.5 billion annually. 28 …
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  • How much of Māori:European mortality inequalities are due to socioeconomic position and tobacco?

    … between Māori and European/Other by a quarter. It is hard to think of another intervention that will reduce … The problem is these questions are surprisingly hard to answer. Why? Because of what would generally be … reduces by 15% for males and 24% for females.  It is hard to think of another intervention that would be so …
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  • Fast-track Bill puts NZ on wrong track, threatening public health

    … Minister for Infrastructure Chris Bishop “It is just too hard to do things—too hard to build houses, too hard to build roads, too hard to build public transport, too …
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