A key issue the review must traverse is how can we ensure safe and responsible supply of alcohol while reducing the inequities in wellbeing and health to which alcohol significantly contributes.
This paper makes the case for major health employers to become living wage employers. It then presents primary data examining to what extent DHBs engaged with the living wage campaign.
Though stingrays are commonly found in the vast Australasian waters, severe injuries are rare. Ray venom remains a poorly understood phenomenon, and the treatment of barb injuries can be challenging due to envenomation obscuring the clinical picture, as well as delayed presentations with bacterial infections.
Although elevations in AST may indicate hepatic disease, AST elevations are not as liver specific as alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevations, and they are also associated with myositis, rhabdomyolysis, acute myocardial infarction or haemolysis.
Over the past 20 months, many New Zealanders have been wearing face masks to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. Masks are thought to be beneficial in terms of reducing the chance of transmitting respiratory borne viruses including COVID-19.
In every way, it was submitted, the condition of the “illegitimate” was made too hard, and that, however moralists might view the question, it was not for the State to penalise or victimise its members who had erred against social law in complying, perhaps with natural law.