Public Health Solutions Series: Improving the cost, composition and availability of foods can save lives

Thursday, September 1st, 2022 | cooju60p | No Comments

Cristina Cleghorn, Sally Mackay *

This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. This blog looks at solutions in the food system: reducing the cost and increasing the availability of healthy food and reformulation of processed food.

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Public Health Solutions Series: Two Injury Prevention Strategies to Reduce Pressure on the Health System

Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 | cooju60p | No Comments

Prof Nick Wilson* 

This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at reducing pressure on the health system of Aotearoa NZ – this blog briefly considers raising alcohol taxes and further lowering the drink driving limits. There is good scientific evidence supporting both these measures and if political leaders explained the health and economic benefits – majority public support for such measures is quite plausible. 

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Public Health Solutions Series: Protecting the healthcare system: a strategic approach to reducing infectious disease impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand

Thursday, August 25th, 2022 | cooju60p | No Comments

Amanda Kvalsvig, Jennifer Summers, Michael Baker* 

This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. In this blog we outline three immediate approaches to protect people and systems from infectious disease impacts: building on synergies in infectious disease control; applying pandemic infrastructure to address other infections; and supporting safe access to education, work, and social settings. 

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The Covid-19 experience in Aotearoa New Zealand and other comparable high-income jurisdictions and implications for managing the next pandemic phase

Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 | cooju60p | No Comments

Dr Jennifer Summers, Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard, Dr Julie Bennett, Dr Amanda Kvalsvig, Prof Michael Baker*

In this blog we briefly explore the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in several high-income Asia-Pacific jurisdictions: Australia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). These jurisdictions used a mixture of elimination and suppression strategies to achieve low infection and mortality rates until the arrival of the Omicron variant which has forced a revised approach. Based on a comparison of responses we provide updated recommendations for the NZ Government around strengthening existing public health measures to reduce the immediate and long-term impacts from Covid-19.

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Public Health Solutions Series: Good health in childhood is vital for lifelong wellbeing: time for a preventive approach

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 | cooju60p | 1 Comment

Amanda D’Souza, Nikki Turner* 

This blog is part of the Public Health Solutions series looking at effective public health measures to reduce demand on healthcare quickly. This blog looks at solutions to improve child health: a child impact lens on policy, lifting income support, action on childhood immunisation. 

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