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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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July 2025

Antibiotic prescribing patterns in the community and primary care settings through a gender lens

Association between wealth and mortality in the United States and Europe

Association of fully branded, standardized packaging and limited flavor and brand descriptors of e-liquids with interest in trying products among youths in Great Britain

Associations of smoke-free policies in multi-unit housing with smoking behavior and second-hand smoke exposure: a systematic review

Communication-based interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine willingness and uptake: a systematic review with meta-analysis

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (new Cochrane intervention review)

Driving under viral impairment: linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks

Gardening initiatives as an approach to cancer prevention for children and youth

Global, regional, and national burden of household air pollution, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Growing health concern regarding gambling addiction in the age of sportsbooks

Household income trajectory effect on oral health-related quality of life during the transition from childhood to adolescence

Long COVID clinical evaluation, research and impact on society: a global expert consensus

Measuring the fitted filtration efficiency of cloth masks, medical masks and respirators

A nationwide study of risk factors for long COVID and its economic and mental health consequences in the United States

Removing barriers to COVID-19 vaccine intention in a university population: results of a serial mediation study through the dimensions of the Health Belief Model

Review of mammography screening guidelines of the 5 largest global economies

Trends and patterns of dual use of combustible tobacco and e-cigarettes among adults in England: a population study, 2016–2024

Typhoid conjugate vaccines for preventing typhoid fever (enteric fever) (new Cochrane intervention review)

Using a systems thinking approach to map the global rise of ultra-processed foods in population diets

Utilizing Google Trends data to enhance forecasts and monitor long COVID prevalence

Youth involvement in policy processes in public health, education, and social work—a scoping review

Sources

Addiction (Apr); Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials (Apr); BMJ Open (May); Clinical Imaging (Apr); Cochrane Library (Apr-May); Communications Medicine (May); JAMA Internal Medicine (Apr); Journal of Dentistry (Mar); Lancet, The (Apr); Nature Communications Medicine (Apr); NEJM (Apr); Obesity Reviews (Apr); PLOS Global Public Health (Apr); PLOS One (Apr-May); Public Health (May)

May 2025

Antiretroviral drugs for treatment and prevention of HIV in adults: 2024 recommendations of the International Antiviral Society–USA Panel

Carceral health care

Effects of food and nutrition insecurity on global health

Evolving epidemiology of mpox in Africa in 2024

Exploring barriers and facilitators to feeding children with minimal or no “Junk Food”: insights from Mexican women

From social media to artificial intelligence: improving research on digital harms in youth

Global burden of neonatal preterm birth: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 2019

Global, regional, and national burden of early-onset colorectal cancer and projection to 2050: an analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Health system reform in the context of COVID-19: a policy brief outlining lessons from Ireland’s journey towards the goal of universal healthcare

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infections in humans

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

Low-dose yellow fever vaccine in adults in Africa

Manhattan's street trees: an unfinished public health story

A novel framework for internal responses to detection of pathogens in wastewater by public health agencies

Pandemic monitoring with global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks

Perspectives of the dementia public health exposome

Predictors of persistent COVID-19 vaccine refusal among previously infected patients in Nebraska

Public health interventions targeting the prevention of adolescent vaping: a scoping review

Respiratory benefits of multisetting air purification in children: a cluster randomized crossover trial

Seroprevalence of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5) virus infections among bovine veterinary practitioners — United States, September 2024

Trends in smoking prevalence and socio-economic inequalities across regions in England: a population study, 2006 to 2024

Unlocking the key to HPV prevention: exploring factors influencing HPV vaccination decisions among young people and their parents

What all physicians should know about women’s health: a Delphi study

Sources

Addiction (Mar); American Journal of Public Health (Jan-Mar); BMJ, The (Feb); BMJ Public Health (Jan); CDC website (Feb); Global Health Research and Policy (Feb); JAMA (Feb); JAMA Pediatrics (Feb); Journal of General Internal Medicine (Jan); Lancet, The (Feb); Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, The (Mar); Nature Medicine (Feb); NEJM (Feb); Public Health (Jan); Public Health Nursing (Jan/Feb); Public Health Reports (Jan/Feb)

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)

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