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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Public Health

Public Health current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

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January 2025

Applying an equity lens to social prescribing

Changes over time of fruit, vegetable and sweets consumption among European adolescents and associations with sociodemographic characteristics: an HBSC study

A commentary on forging a path for CHANGE: culturally focused HIV training for the next generation in pursuit of equity

A critical analysis of UK media characterisations of Long Covid in children and young people

Do lead (Pb) content of lipsticks expose a health risk to children? A risk assessment study

The effectiveness of interventions to reduce the transmission of acute respiratory infections in care homes: a systematic review

Exposure to family and domestic violence in the prenatal period is associated with an increased risk of hospitalization for bronchiolitis in children under 2 years

The feasibility and acceptability of an inoculative intervention video for gambling advertising: a focus group study of academics and experts-by-experience

Gender differences in the context of interventions for improving health literacy in migrants: a qualitative evidence synthesis (new Cochrane qualitative review)

A higher mortality in men compared to women with heart failure in primary care and ejection fraction equal to or more than 40%

How the idea of social contagion shaped trans medicine

Mpox clinical presentation, diagnostic approaches, and treatment strategies

Rainfall events and daily mortality across 645 global locations: two stage time series analysis

Safer shared air: a critical accessibility and inclusion issue

Social media discourse on ageism, sexism, and racism: analysis of 150 million tweets over 15 years

Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school‐based policies or practices targeting diet, physical activity, obesity, tobacco or alcohol use (updated Cochrane intervention review)

“They still phone even though they know I'm deaf”: exploring experiences of deaf people in health services in Wales, UK

Time to publication for results of clinical trials (updated Cochrane methodology review)

Unintended consequences of measures implemented in the school setting to contain the COVID‐19 pandemic: a scoping review (updated Cochrane prototype review)

Using narratives to correct politically charged health misinformation and address affective belief echoes

Sources

BMJ, The (Oct); Cochrane Library (Nov-Dec); Critical Public Health (Oct-Dec); JAMA (Nov); Journal of Public Health (Sep-Dec); Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Oct); NEJM (Oct); PLOS Global Public Health (Nov); Safer Air Project website (Nov)

November 2024

Assessing classroom ventilation rates using CO2 data from a nationwide study of UK schools and identifying school-wide correlation factors

Association between depression and ultra-processed food consumption: a population-based study (Vigitel, 2023)

Evaluation indicators for access to cancer screening services: a scoping review

Evaluation of a mobile COVID-19 vaccination van outreach service in an outer South London borough

Factors influencing patients’ engagement with ChatGPT for accessing health-related information

Family poverty over the early life course and adult experiences of intimate partner violence: a cohort study

Food environments and association with household food insecurity: a systematic review

Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050

Global burden of childhood nutritional deficiencies, 1990–2019

Holistic modelling as a catalyst for effective obesity policy (BMJ analysis)

Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Measuring and increasing rates of self-isolation in the context of COVID-19: a systematic review with narrative synthesis

Patient navigator programmes for children and adolescents with chronic diseases (new Cochrane intervention review)

Psychological and educational interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community (new Cochrane intervention review)

The relationship between risk and prevention awareness of infectious diseases and health literacy among prisoners

The relationship of social contacts with prisoners' mental health: a systematic review

The impact of increasing temperatures due to climate change on infectious diseases

Smallpox autoinoculation via tattoo in a soldier

Vaccine hesitancy throughout the COVID-19 vaccination trajectory among immigrant and non-immigrant older adults: a cohort study

Water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Sources

BMJ, The (Sep-Oct); Cochrane Library (Sep-Oct); Critical Public Health (Sep); Developments in the Built Environment (Oct); Journal of Public Health (Jun); Lancet, The (Sep-Oct); Military Medicine (Jul); Public Health (Sep-Oct) 

September 2024

Accuracy of routine laboratory tests to predict mortality and deterioration to severe or critical COVID‐19 in people with SARS‐CoV‐2 (new Cochrane diagnostic review)

COVID-19 among migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons

COVID-19 pandemic school disruptions and acute mental health in children and adolescents

Distribution of tuberculosis in migrant children and young people in Europe

The early impact of the UK's new alcohol taxation system on product strength and price

Educational inequalities in cervical cancer screening participation in 24 European countries

Effects of discounting fruits, vegetables, and noncaloric beverages in New York City supermarkets on purchasing, intake, and weight

Electronic health record–based algorithm for monitoring respiratory virus–like illness

Environment, animals, and food as reservoirs of antibiotic-resistant bacteria for humans

Epidemiological surveillance and infectious disease outbreaks during mass international summertime sports gatherings

Global burden of type 1 diabetes in adults aged 65 years and older, 1990-2019

Household water lead and hematologic toxic effects in chronic kidney disease

Implementation and evaluation of a SARI surveillance system in a tertiary hospital in Scotland in 2021/2022

The implementation of a hepatitis C testing service in community pharmacies: I-COPTIC consensus statement

Modeling the transmission mitigation impact of testing for infectious diseases

The nexus of immigration regulation and health governance: a scoping review of the extent to which right to access healthcare by migrants, refugees and asylum seekers was upheld in the United Kingdom during COVID-19

A public health approach to modern slavery in the United Kingdom

A systematic review of whether Health Impact Assessment frameworks support best practice principles

Text messages with financial incentives for men with obesity: a randomized clinical trial

Trends in long term vaping among adults in England, 2013-23: population based study

Trends in sudden cardiac death in pilots: a post COVID-19 challenging crisis of global perspectives 2011-2023 (preprint)

Sources

BMJ, The (Jun-Jul); Cochrane Library (Jul-Aug); eClinicalMedicine (Jul); Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun); Infectious Diseases Now (Jun); JAMA (Jul); JAMA Internal Medicine (Jul); JAMA Network Open (Aug); medRxiv (Jul); Obesity (Jun); Public Health (Jul-Aug); Science Advances (Jun)

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