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  • Can pandemic threats justify border closure for island nations like NZ?

    … Countries prepare for future pandemic risks because of pandemic influenza, novel emerging infectious agents and … published in a journal, we explored the costs and benefits of complete border closure in NZ in response to new pandemic … Additionally, there is now very active international development of unmanned cargo ships controlled from land in …
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  • The Crisis in youth mental health: what can be done?

    … (WHR24) found a steep decline in the mental wellbeing of youth. Findings from New Zealand-specific research paint a … a priority, and has the potential to create tangible and sustainable change to mental health and wellbeing. 13   The … or low-cost primary healthcare, mental health, and social development services to young people. Despite evidence of …
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  • The maths and ethics of minimising COVID-19 deaths in NZ

    … But to do so means understanding the maths and ethics of both these strategies. In this blog we adapt our work for … ratcheting up its control measures to deal with the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in our view at least, there is … piece published in The Conversation by Prof John Daley of the Grattan Institute, he argues that there is a need in …
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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … methods to improve the quality and causal inference of our research – more of that below.  During the week, the Australian Broadcasting … death in countries with saturated fat intake.  The criticism?  When you put more than just the seven studies on …
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  • Digesting things further: High dietary salt intakes are almost certainly problematic

    … concerns regarding other aspects). Here we update some of our thinking and conclude that the totality of the available evidence is sufficient for health authorities to continue taking a range of evidence-based actions to reduce the hazard of high salt …
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  • We need rapid progress on digital solutions to help eliminate COVID-19 from New Zealand

    …   In this blog we discuss some of the emerging technologies New Zealand could adopt to … elimination strategy. We argue for the prioritisation of technologies to assist with contact tracing, border … to get right. The NZ Government has signalled the development of a digital solution that will integrate the …
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  • Protecting children and young people from unethical junk food marketing: Upgrading the advertising codes

    … generally favour a regulatory approach (given the lack of evidence for an industry-controlled process and voluntary codes (1)), the current review of the voluntary Advertising Codes in NZ does present another … junior football – Coca Cola: contributes funding to youth development programmes and awards  & developed the Move60 …
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  • A public health perspective on taxing harmful products

    … has set up a Tax Working Group to consider reforms of the tax system. In this blog we briefly discuss some of the opportunities for tax reform that will potentially … and enhance environmental sustainability. Regular reviews of the tax system are important given that taxation has a …
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  • Vaping very likely to be improving health in NZ – but how does this compare with other options?

    … a replacement for tobacco smoking, will improve the health of the NZ population. The estimated health gain is about the … cancer screening programme. Considering all sources of uncertainty, our study supports cautious liberalisation of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes – as NZ is doing. In this …
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  • “Action for Healthy Waterways”: some big ticket actions that the Government has neglected

    … document with many good ideas for improving the health of waterways in New Zealand. But there are important gaps. In … price signals such as via dairy/meat taxes. Basic economic theory would suggest that such dairy/ruminant meat taxes … for livestock grazing. The type of forestry needed for sustainable climate change mitigation, and for water …
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