Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

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.

February 2025

An analysis of inequality in physical health status of women in India: 2015‒2021

Assessing health systems’ capacities to provide post-abortion care: insights from seven low- and middle-income countries

Behavioural interventions targeting the prevention and treatment of young children’s mental health problems in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review

Cultural foundations of global health: a critical examination of universal child feeding recommendations

The effect of short-term exposure to air pollution on the admission of ischemic stroke and its interaction with meteorological factors

Effects of population aging on quality of life and disease burden: a population-based study

Even a small dose of physical activity can be good medicine

How is health considered in urban transport planning? A review of the literature

Improving complex health systems and lived environments for maternal and perinatal well-being in urban sub-Saharan Africa: the UrbanBirth Collective

Inclusion of cross-cultural care training in humanitarian aid: a scoping review

Intake of fruit, vegetables and pulses, and all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality: results from a population-based prospective study

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

Population attributable fractions for modifiable risk factors of neonatal, infant, and under-five mortality in 48 low- and middle-income countries

Preferences for breast cancer screening: results of a discrete choice experiment

Race and ethnicity dynamics in survival to 100 years in the United States

Scope of public health workforce: an exploratory analysis on World Health Organization policy and the literature

A taste of ambrosia: do Olympic medalists live longer than Olympic losers?

Vaccine pricing and production capacity in Africa: can Africa move beyond pooled procurement in the face of a future pandemic?

What is wellness? Investigating the importance of different domains of wellness among laypeople and experts: a survey study

Sources

Global Health Journal (Dec); Global Health Research and Policy (Jan); Journal of Global Health (Jan); Journal of Internal Medicine (Dec); Nature Medicine (Jan); PLOS Global Public Health (Jan); Public Health (Feb-/Mar-in progress); Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (Feb)

January 2025

2024 small island developing states report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

The burden, clinical features and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2, Influenza and co-infections during concurrently out-of-season outbreaks in Brazil

The correlates of environmental initiatives in sports organizations with climate change attitudes and subjective well-being

Does going against the norm on women’s economic participation increase intimate partner violence risk? A cross-sectional, multi-national study

Environmental measures to improve pedestrian safety in low- and middle-income countries

Explanations for higher-than-expected all-cause mortality from April 2021: a scoping review

Global burden of neonatal preterm birth: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Global burden of tuberculous meningitis in children aged 0–14 years in 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

Home-based care models for patients with terminal illnesses in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review of randomized and quasi-experimental studies

The impact of COVID-19 mitigation measures on neonatal health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa

The impact of earthquakes on women: assessing women's mental health in aftermath of the Kahramanmaraş-centred earthquake in Türkiye

Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on mental health among married women in Sri Lanka: a study based on Women’s Wellbeing Survey-2019

The impacts of noise and air pollution on breast cancer risk in European and East Asian populations: insights from genetic evidence

Prediction of inpatient mortality in hospitalised children in low- and middle-income countries: an external validation of paediatric mortality risk scores

Redefining health priorities: Sub-Saharan Africa’s new frontier in disease burden

Relating mental health, health-related quality of life and well-being in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional comparison in 14 European countries in early 2023

Should organized sport characteristics be considered as a strategy for meeting physical activity guidelines in children?

Sources

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Dec); Global Health Promotion (Dec); Global Health Research and Policy (Dec); Journal of Global Health (Dec); Journal of Public Health (Sep-Dec); Lancet Global Health, The (Jan); Public Health (Jan)

December 2024

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

Democratise and decolonise to decarbonise: how to reap health and climate benefits of transport infrastructure in Africa

Determinants of pneumococcal vaccination among older adults: a scoping review

The effect of drugs and guns on life expectancy in the United States, 2000–2020

Environmental and occupational exposure to organochlorine pesticides associated with Parkinson's disease risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis based on epidemiological evidence

The epidemiological profile and morbidity-mortality patterns of the natural hazards-related disasters in the Americas from 2000 to 2021

Ethnic inequalities in primary care experiences for people with multiple long-term conditions: evidence from the general practice patient survey

Exploring the quality of urban green spaces and their association with health: an epidemiological study on obesity using Street View technology

Factors affecting detection and estimation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentration of COVID-19 positive cases in wastewater influent: a systematic review

Factors influencing the first dose of measles vaccination uptake in 42 low- and middle-income countries

Global cancer statistics of young adults and its changes in the past decade: incidence and mortality from GLOBOCAN 2022

Global, regional, and national burden of injuries, and burden attributable to injuries risk factors, 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease study 2019

Global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks' gestation or longer in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Impact of local tobacco control policies on the prevalence of smoke-free sports clubs

Individual- and community-level predictors of healthcare-seeking behaviour for acute respiratory tract infections among children under five in 29 low- and middle-income countries: a multilevel analysis

Key stakeholders’ perspectives of public health emergency preparedness in Palestine: a qualitative exploratory study

Safer shared air: a critical accessibility and inclusion issue

Solid fuel combustion and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a nationwide study on stillbirth in India

Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants

Sources

BMJ, The (Nov); Lancet, The (Nov); PLOS Global Public Health (Nov); Public Health (Dec); Safer Air Project website (Nov)

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