Public Health Solutions Blogs Series – Public Health Expert, University of Otago, New Zealand

Public Health Solutions Series: Where the sun enters, the doctor does not

Thursday, August 11th, 2022 | cooju60p | 1 Comment

Philippa Howden-Chapman, Helen Viggers, Caro Fyfe, Michael Keall*

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 housing sector: energy efficient heaters; reducing avoidable home injuries and improving building standards. Continue reading →

Public Health Solutions Series: Simple transport system changes could quickly relieve the crisis in our hospitals

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 | cooju60p | No Comments

Caroline Shaw, Alistair Woodward, Alex Macmillan*

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 transport sector: low traffic neighbourhoods, creating comprehensive pop-up networks for biking, scooting and wheelchair use and speed limit reductions. Continue reading →

Introducing the Public Health Solutions Blog Series

Monday, August 8th, 2022 | cooju60p | No Comments

For the next few weeks, Public Health Expert blog will be publishing a series of invited blogs on the best public health interventions the government can put in place to reduce pressure on the health system.

Image by Luke Pilkinton-Ching, University of Otago Wellington Continue reading →

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· Peer review process: Where a blog post has a single author, then the content is always peer-reviewed by at least one senior academic in public health. This is to help ensure that statements have a reasonable basis in terms of scientific plausibility and to ensure that uncertainty is appropriately acknowledged where statements have speculative aspects. For multi-authored blogs there can also be additional peer-review. Of note is that the PHE blog posts are often well-referenced so that readers can readily check the background science and arguments.

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· Relationship with the parent institution: Any views expressed in these blog posts are those of the author(s) alone and not their parent institution. This is consistent with the meaning of academic freedom under the NZ Education Act 1989 (section 161). Furthermore, in a free society, it is undesirable for universities to vet or otherwise control statements by academic staff.

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Public Health Solutions Series: Where the sun enters, the doctor does not

Public Health Solutions Series: Simple transport system changes could quickly relieve the crisis in our hospitals

Introducing the Public Health Solutions Blog Series

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