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  • Youth vaping addiction: How it happens and why it matters

    … proportion of young people who experiment with vaping are becoming daily users – by 2022, the conversion rate from … after addiction may thus require a lifetime of vigilance. What are the effects of nicotine addiction on young people? … participation in sports; risk of getting caught and associated consequences e.g., school suspension; impact on …
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  • What’s the right Covid-19 risk to live with – an Australian perspective

    … Blog syndicated with permission from “The Pursuit” at Melbourne University, … virus modelling provides scenarios that can help us decide what’s the right risk to tolerate.   As Australia inches up  … at it. Vaccination coverage is very important, but so too are a number of other factors; the expected number of …
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  • Has the time come for a register of AI systems used by government agencies?

    … especially in "generative" AI tools like ChatGPT with new systems emerging frequently. Several recent reports … which can generate images. Products using generative AI are being pushed hard at us, as companies compete for very … How does it fit in, or alter, the current workflow? What are the likely impacts of implementing this AI?  It is …
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  • The changing COVID-19 situation in Taiwan – what can NZ learn from Taiwan’s latest outbreak?

    … 2021 onwards has resulted in an increasing mortality rate, with large scale restrictions imposed to bring the outbreak … the Delta  variant (B.1.617.2, originating in India) which are both more transmissible compared to the original … 470.5 1.1% Taiwan 15,088 14 706 14 23.5 15 30.0 641.7 4.7% What is the state of public health interventions in Taiwan? …
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  • Food taxes and subsidies will probably protect health & reduce inequalities – but the devil is in the detail

    … on food taxes and subsidies – both of which depend on what are called price elasticities.  Timely, in light of the … data (media release here ).  This is entirely consistent with economic theory – and data about price impacts for other …
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  • Potential for an avian influenza pandemic: Time for NZ to ramp up preparedness

    … ). General principles of pandemic risk assessment are based on key attributes of the emerging threat, notably … in the Pacific will increase regional resilience.  What this Briefing adds Influenza has been a cause of human … genes among viral strains with origins in wild birds—a common feature of avian influenza viruses. 34 35  The first …
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  • Clean ups are not enough: Government policy incoherent on climate change

    … vulnerability in the face of climate change. But given what is known about our changing climate, it is important not … reduce the rigour applied to new developments. Yet there are potentially huge public health, social, and economic … we know a warmer climate is our “new normal”, bringing with it more frequent and intense storms, floods, and other …
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  • Warmest New Zealand winter ever recorded – The Government should do more on climate change

    … can be nice for some – but drought may become more common with climate change in some parts of NZ But … the changing seasons for New Zealand and elsewhere are symptomatic of an extremely serious problem, that of … New Zealand can act on to a greater extent – regardless of what other countries do. But when genuine international …
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  • Covid-19 Case-Fatality Risk & Infection-Fatality Risk – important measures to help guide the pandemic response

    … the CFR as ‘the proportion of individuals diagnosed with a disease who die from that disease and is therefore a … when interpreting these statistics, for example, there are different testing levels (along with underreporting), … describes how the IFR is able to address the question of what the likelihood is of dying is for an infected …
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  • Monkeypox has arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand: what is the level of risk and how do we manage it?

    … potentially transmissible here, spread is easily contained with case isolation and contact management. However, this … countries to eliminate it, including in NZ itself.   We are experiencing a global outbreak of monkeypox which has for … … Monkeypox has arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand: what is the level of risk and how do we manage it? …
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