Changing lifestyle habits: advertising, taxes, behavioural counselling, incentives, text messages, apps, scared straight, genetic information, city design // Delaying the second COVID-19 vaccine dose // COVID-19 update: colchicine, rapid tests, children and variants.

 

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References:

 

1) Food marketing to children: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416565/

 

2) Generalizable and robust TV advertising effects: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3273476, https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-1/, https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/

 

3) American Heart Association’s 7 ideal lifestyle factors: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4556343/

 

4) Cigarette taxes: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0204416

 

5) Cigarette tax in Colombia: https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/28/4/374

 

6) Cigarette tax in China: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(15)70095-1/fulltext

 

7) Cigarette tax in Lebanon: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5115647/

 

8) Cigarette tax in Korea: https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/25/2/141

 

9) Sugar tax in Philadelphia: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2733208

 

10) Sugar tax in Spain: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7908-5

 

11) Cochrane review on smoking cessation: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD013229.pub2/abstract

 

12) Review of smoking cessation apps: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21335258/

 

13) Cochrane review on encouraging exercise: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010392.pub2/full

 

14) Implementing sidewalks: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24380471/

 

15) The walking school bus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3164094/

 

16) Impact of new bike lanes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23334767/

 

17) Recess in elementary school: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074953/

 

18) Gym class: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17328052/

 

19) Chris’ Montreal Gazette article on delaying the second vaccine dose: https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-risks-of-altering-vaccination-protocols-are-unknown

 

20) Annals of Internal Medicine modelling study on alternative dose allocation strategies: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-8137

 

21) McGill OSS live stream with Dr. Don Sheppard: https://youtu.be/peursUpKnx8

 

22) Report from Israel about effectiveness of one dose: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n217

 

23) BBC article about Israel vaccine fears ‘out of context and inaccurate’: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55734257

 

24) Press release for colchicine trial: https://www.icm-mhi.org/en/pressroom/news/colchicine-reduces-risk-covid-19-related-complications

 

25) Pre-print manuscript for colchicine trial: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.26.21250494v1

 

26) Spartan Bioscience says Health Canada approves rapid COVID-19 test: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/spartan-bioscience-covid-19-test-approved-1.5885284

 

 

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