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  • Might a ‘Coasean’ social contract mitigate overall societal harm from COVID-19?

    … strategy: the particular need to protect older people from high death rates and the desirability of maximising freedom from lock-downs and economic wellbeing for nearly everyone … the risk of harm to health, welfare and the economy from the COVID-19 pandemic. Those most at risk of …
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  • Clean ups are not enough: Government policy incoherent on climate change

    … in this country and internationally at increased risk from climate change impacts.  However, the current Government … tough blow for these communities who are still recovering from the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle last year”. 1 While … agricultural productivity, leading to crop failures, food shortages, and ultimately increased food prices. These …
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  • Progress on reducing retail availability of sugary drinks in NZ

    … made some progress in removing the sale of sugary drinks from hospitals and schools. In this blog we look at such … in 2015 from the Ministry of Health that public hospitals remove from sale all SSBs. There has also been encouragement … interventions, and inadequately addressing the role of the food industry (e.g., “Partnership with Industry”, and …
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  • How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    … across 5 facilities” [7]. Unfortunately, that report from the Ministry of Health, which received wide media … the importance of effective error management and learning from failures [8]). In light of this we suggest the following … an extremely small chance it was from an infected imported food product (with our assessment based on the likely extreme …
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  • Proposed vaping regulations for NZ: Strengths and limitations

    … extension of prohibitions on advertising and sponsorship from tobacco products to all vaping and smokeless tobacco … for the Bill to go further to protect young people from vaping uptake. In this blog, we discuss the provisions, … also applies to regulated products. Image by Lindsay Fox from Pixabay The Bill also extends existing smokefree area …
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  • Retailing of vaping products – New NZ Research

    … into smoked tobacco products and then discuss findings from our recently published study that questions the wisdom … product samples and permit vaping onsite. However, aside from setting out the notification process and potential … (the current situation in NZ). Image by  haiberliu  from  Pixabay Balancing smoking initiation among youth with …
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  • Potential for an avian influenza pandemic: Time for NZ to ramp up preparedness

    … update our pandemic plan to incorporate lessons from past pandemic responses, notably the effective use of … the first known case of this virus jumping to humans from another mammal. 2 3   This Briefing provides a … hosts, including humans. 7 Preliminary genomic evidence from the ongoing dairy cattle infections in the United States …
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  • Potential health co-benefits from eradicating rats, stoats and possums in NZ towns and cities

    … concludes that there are many potential health benefits from the eradication or near-complete control of these pest … there has also been the successful eradication of possums from the Miramar Peninsula (officially since 2006) and … may be a counter issue with mice.** Reduced damage to food supplies Possums* and rats can damage domestic gardens …
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  • A 100 years ago today – the likely first NZ death from the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … draw links with the present day pandemic risks (including from synthetic bioweapons). We highlight the importance of … mean that the first New Zealander likely to have died from pandemic influenza was Robert Gordon Torrance, a … preparedness plans (including adequate supplies of stored food etc – see this study we did on low-cost emergency food …
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  • “Achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025”: a response to critiques

    … people who smoke to either quit or to transition fully from smoking to vaping. Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 is a … leaders for a Tupeka Kore (tobacco-free) Aotearoa, freed from the tobacco products introduced to Māori through … harms caused by tobacco smoking. A team of researchers from ASPIRE 2025, supported by leading researchers and …
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