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Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Subject guide for all QUB Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences students and staff. Features guides to planning and running database searches, finding grey literature, and using EndNote for reference management.

QUB Global and Public Health current awareness bulletin

This bulletin, for QUB Global and Public Health students and staff, contains links to some of the latest papers on global/public health topics. These might help to trigger research ideas in students who are unsure of topics to pursue for essays, dissertations etc.

To receive new issues of this bulletin via email, please contact Richard Fallis, Subject Librarian for Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences.

July 2025

Advances in the management of hepatitis B

The Black prisoners of Stateville: race, research, and reckoning at the dawn of precision medicine

Community-based mentoring to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality in adolescent pregnancies in Sierra Leone (2YoungLives): a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial

Demographic and socioeconomic determinants of maternal knowledge and confidence in promoting infant and toddler oral health: an exploratory study

Did the United States smokeless tobacco industry use cigarette industry strategies to sponsor and manipulate research?

Digital interventions for common mental health problems among older adults in low- and middle-income countries

Electronic cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking in young people: a systematic review

Environmental risk factors for systemic lupus erythematosus through the lens of social determinants of health

Estimating the potential malaria morbidity and mortality avertable by the US President's Malaria Initiative in 2025

Gender inequality in access to rheumatology care in APLAR countries: outcomes and potential solutions

Human papillomavirus vaccine coverage surveys in low- and middle-income countries: current efforts and future considerations for very young adolescents

The impacts of e-cigarette flavours: an overview of systematic reviews

Implementing public health vending machines on the reservation lands of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa (United States)

Integrating gender-inclusive initiatives in medical school in Rwanda: faculty and student experiences at the University of Global Health Equity

Microbial laden mobile phones from international conference attendees pose potential risks to public health and biosecurity

Prevalence of undernutrition in children with cancer in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

A systematic review and meta-analysis of factors associated with adolescent substance use in Africa, 2000 to 2020

Understanding the influence of abortion on 2024 US elections

Values and preferences regarding the health sector response to interpersonal violence against transgender and gender-diverse individuals: a systematic review

Why should we be concerned by internalised racism in global health?

Sources

Addiction (Jun-Jul); Arthritis Care & Research (Jun); BMJ, The (Jun); BMJ Global Health (Jun); Harm Reduction Journal (May); Infection, Disease & Health (May); International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases (Jun); JAMA (Jun); Lancet, The (Jun); Lancet Psychiatry, The (Jul); Medical Teacher (issue 7); Pediatric Dental Journal (Aug)

June 2025

Adverse childhood experiences and suicidality in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

AI and omics technologies in biobanking: applications and challenges for public health

Confronting global inequities in palliative care

Considerations for improving the relevance, use, and robustness of projections of the health risks of climate change

Design, coverage and utilisation of maternity conditional cash programmes in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review

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

The effect of air pollution exposure on menstrual cycle health using self-reported data from a mobile health app: a prospective, observational study

Growing health concern regarding gambling addiction in the age of sportsbooks

The impact of adverse childhood experiences on health outcomes of indigenous populations over the life course: a systematic review

Impact of climate change on arsenic concentrations in paddy rice and the associated dietary health risks in Asia: an experimental and modelling study

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

Making health insurance responsive to citizens: learning from six low-income and middle-income countries

A methodological review of patient healthcare-seeking journeys from symptom onset to receipt of care

Mosquito and global dengue cases in a warming world

Prevalence of sexual violence against children and age at first exposure: a global analysis by location, age, and sex (1990–2023)

Promoting health through climate change mitigation in Europe

Protecting Africa's children from extreme risk: a runway of sustainability for PEPFAR programmes

Reflections on 50 years of immunisation programmes in the WHO African region: an impetus to build on the progress and address the unfinished immunisation business

Responsible artificial intelligence in public health: a Delphi study on risk communication, community engagement and infodemic management

Trends in population exposure to compound extreme-risk temperature and air pollution across 35 European countries: a modelling study

Trends in socioeconomic inequality in mortality during childhood between 1993 and 2021 in India

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

Virtual cycling in urban green and blue vs gray spaces: the efficacy of mental health and physical activity

WASH and learn: a scoping review of health, education and gender equity outcomes of school-based water, sanitation and hygiene in low-income and middle-income countries

Sources

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials (Apr); BMJ Global Health (May); Cochrane Library (May); JAMA Internal Medicine (Apr); Lancet, The (May); Lancet Planetary Health, The (May); Communications Medicine (May); Obesity Reviews (Apr); Public Health (Jun)

May 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 between main ambient air pollutants and ischaemic heart disease risk in the UK biobank

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

Blood under pressure: how climate change threatens blood safety and supply chains

Differential impacts of cigarette tax increases on health equity in the United States

Effect of video-assisted educational intervention on improving knowledge, attitude and practice among mothers of children below five years on malnutrition: a systematic review

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

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

How to read a paper involving artificial intelligence (AI)

The impact of free subway passes on the social relationships and mental health of urban older people: A segmented regression analysis

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

Playing for understanding: the impact of interactive gaming on young adults’ sexual health education

Preterm birth and public health challenges: Incidence and risk factors

The prevalence and characterisation of energy drink consumption in North America: a systematic review

A review of local global health education in post-graduate medical education

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

Sources

Addiction (Apr); BMJ Medicine (Apr); Clinical Imaging (Apr); Journal of Dentistry (Mar); Lancet, The (Apr); Lancet Planetary Health, The (Apr); Medical Teacher (issue 5); Nature Communications Medicine (Apr); NEJM (Apr); Public Health (May)

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