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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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March 2025

4 in 10 Minnesota COVID survivors report having at least 1 lingering symptom

            See also: Impact of Long COVID symptoms in Minnesota

The adverse public health effects of non-medical cannabis legalisation in Canada and the USA

Annual versus less frequent mammographic surveillance in people with breast cancer aged 50 years and older in the UK (Mammo-50): a multicentre, randomised, phase 3, non-inferiority trial

Burden of infections in early life and risk of infections and systemic antibiotics use in childhood

Calorie (energy) labelling for changing selection and consumption of food or alcohol (new Cochrane intervention review)

Cancer risk and legalisation of access to cannabis in the USA: overview of the evidence

Demographic, socioeconomic, and social barriers to use of mobility assistive products: a multistate analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Differences in the effectiveness of individual‐level smoking cessation interventions by socioeconomic status (new Cochrane intervention review)

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Even a small dose of physical activity can be good medicine

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research

Incentives for smoking cessation (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Incidence and prevalence of post-COVID-19 myalgic encephalomyelitis (RECOVER-Adult)

Interventions for quitting vaping (new Cochrane intervention review)

Interventions implemented through sporting organisations for promoting healthy behaviour or improving health outcomes (new Cochrane intervention review)

It won’t end with COVID: countering the next phase of American antivaccine activism 2025–29

Long Covid: ‘rest and pacing’ isn’t that easy

The “pandemic of abandonment”: navigating friendships five years into COVID-19

Pasteurisation temperatures effectively inactivate influenza A viruses in milk

Prevalence of severe mental illness among people in prison across 43 countries

The public health risks of counterfeit pills

Sport-related concussion (NEJM review)

Suspected and confirmed mpox cases in DR Congo: a retrospective analysis of national epidemiological and laboratory surveillance data, 2010–23

Sources

Central Bylines website (Jan); CIDRAP website (Jan); Conversation, The (Jan); Cochrane Library (Jan); JAMA Network Open (Jan); Journal of General Internal Medicine (Jan); Journal of Internal Medicine (Dec); Lancet, The (Jan); Lancet Public Health, The (Jan-Feb); Minnesota Department of Health website (Jan); Nature Medicine (Jan); NEJM (Jan); PLOS Global Public Health (Jan)

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) 

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