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

Public Health current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Links to articles in the current and previous 2 issues of this bulletin are displayed below.

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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)

July 2024

Bird flu outbreak in dairy cows is widespread, raising public health concerns 10.1001/jama.2024.8886

Bridging the gap between research evidence and its implementation in public health practice: case studies of embedded research model 10.1186/s12889-024-18727-z

Cancer incidence and survival statistics for Northern Ireland: 1993-2021 (new NI Cancer Registry statistics – published 21/05/2024)

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00850-X

Effect of the HPV vaccination programme on incidence of cervical cancer and grade 3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia by socioeconomic deprivation in England 10.1136/bmj-2023-077341

Ensuring progress on sustainable access to effective antibiotics at the 2024 UN General Assembly: a target-based approach 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01019-5

“Excited delirium”: can the world lose this controversial term, which is accused of covering up deaths in police custody? 10.1136/bmj.q1047

Expanding antibiotic, vaccine, and diagnostics development and access to tackle antimicrobial resistance 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00878-X

Hearing protection field attenuation estimation systems and associated training for reducing workers’ exposure to noise (new Cochrane intervention review) 10.1002/14651858.CD015066.pub2

Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old (new Cochrane intervention review) 10.1002/14651858.CD015328.pub2

Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 12 to 18 years old (new Cochrane intervention review) 10.1002/14651858.CD015330.pub2/

Intimate partner violence as a risk factor for venous thromboembolism in women on combined oral contraceptives: an international matched case-control study 10.1016/j.ejim.2023.12.016

Public and dental teams' views about weight management interventions in dental health settings: systematic review and meta-analysis 10.1111/obr.13726

Rates and causes of death after release from incarceration among 1 471 526 people in eight high-income and middle-income countries: an individual participant data meta-analysis 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00344-1

The scope of the antimicrobial resistance challenge 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00876-6

Text vs patient portal messaging to improve influenza vaccination coverage: a health system–wide randomized clinical trial 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.0001

Ultra-processed food and non-communicable diseases in the United Kingdom: a narrative review and thematic synthesis of literature 10.1111/obr.13682

Undernutrition as a risk factor for tuberculosis disease (new Cochrane prognosis review) 10.1002/14651858.CD015890.pub2

Sources

BMC Public Health (May); BMJ, The (15th May); Cochrane Library (May-Jun); European Journal of Internal Medicine (Apr); JAMA (May); JAMA Internal Medicine (May); Lancet, The (May-Jun); NI Cancer Registry website (May); Obesity Reviews (Apr-Jun)