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  • Why do so many fear the bicycle?

    … a paper we have just published quantifying the risk of cycling injury. We found it to be low compared to other … marginalised (the bike is shunted, literally, to the side of the road), and how this might be changed.   “It is too … in New Zealand (Legge and Landtroop, 2013). About half of New Zealand households own one or more bikes in good …
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  • Intensifying Covid-19 Control Measures: 5 Measures for Faster Elimination and 5 Measures to Prevent Future outbreaks

    … for accelerated efforts to ensure more rapid elimination of community transmission. In this blog we look at five … measures to implement immediately, along with a range of other Covid-19 control measures that will help Auckland … medium term.    Image by Luke Pilkinton-Ching, University of Otago Wellington It is critical that Aotearoa NZ continues …
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  • Insights into health system costs of living and dying in New Zealand – New study

    … ). It raises interesting questions about the best use of taxpayer funds for preventing and treating ill health. In this blog we detail the main findings of this study and reflect some of the possible implications.Our study used linked …
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  • The COVID-19 house fire and the unbearable silence of fire alarms

    … Dr Matt Boyd (syndicated from the blog site of “ Adapt Research ” ) WHO? The Emergency Committee The … regulations (IHR) provide for the Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) in appropriate …
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  • Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … for infrastructure, but there is still a shortage of habitable safe housing for low-income households. … an inclusive, more equitable society. The rapidity of climate change bringing wilder weather requires not only an urgent upgrading of the Building Code to establish higher housing standards …
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  • Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

    … this, we need to understand their upstream experiences of housing instability. This Briefing reports the findings and implications of a study focused on LGBTIQ+ people’s experiences of housing instability.  Housing needs to be viewed as a …
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  • How the tobacco industry targets young people to achieve a new generation of smokers

    … focusses on the tobacco industry’s continued targeting of young people, whose addiction to nicotine will help ensure … nicotine free.   Tobacco companies’ sustained deceit of the general public, particularly people who smoke, is a … no benefits, but some risks, to non-smokers who begin vaping. Analysis of ENDS product marketing reveals the same …
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  • Staying safe from COVID-19 over summer and beyond: The need for more NZ Government action

    … risks – which may even be increasing with larger numbers of infected returnees in border facilities. In this final blog of the year we detail the critical actions needed to lower … with these measures being largely the responsibility of the NZ Government. We also highlight the importance of …
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  • A new review on dietary fats: Putting its findings in context

    … heart disease. We have concerns about some aspects of this review, in particular the lack of context around the totality of the evidence. Hence we suggest that the best evidence for …
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  • A National risks assessment should include pandemics and other global catastrophes

    … there is a need to: (i) improve future iterations of the public survey (eg, the next one in February/March … and (iii) explicitly articulate the extreme tail risks of each major trend identified in the LTIB (ie, nuclear war, … Briefing (LTIB) has been produced by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in conjunction with nine …
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