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.
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Dementia in sub-Saharan Africa: risk factors, public perception, and management approaches
Digital payments for healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa (special issue of BMJ Global Health)
Heatwaves: how air pollution is worsening effects on health
The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics
Prevalence and determinants of e-cigarette use in South Asia: a systematic review
Prevalence of female sexual dysfunction in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Quality of maternal and newborn care services in Uganda: a scoping review
A scoping review of person-centred maternity care service in humanitarian and fragile settings
Tropical deforestation is associated with considerable heat-related mortality
Unveiling complexity in blue spaces and life expectancy
The upstream–downstream tension in the global health classroom
Weapons of influence: tactics of a growing global arms industry and needed health actions
Weapons, wealth, and health: the arms industry as a commercial determinant of health
Anesthesia & Analgesia (Sep); BMJ, The (Sep); BMJ Global Health (Sep); Environmental Research (Sep); Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health (Dec); Lancet, The (Aug-Sep); Lancet Global Health, The (Oct); Nature Climate Change (Aug)
A brief overview on the threat of zoonotic viruses
Climate change and workplace heat stress: technical report and guidance (WHO report)
Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity
Effective altruism in global health: doing better, justly
The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics
Monkeypox: a comprehensive review of virology, epidemiology, and global health implications
The path forward for vaccine policy in the United States
Personal night light exposure predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases in >88,000 individuals (preprint)
Restoring the infant mortality rate as a measure of societal health and well-being
Using behavioural science to design public health social media campaigns
Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review
BMJ, The (Aug); BMJ Global Health (Aug); Clinical Breast Cancer (Aug); Journal of Climate Change and Health, The (Sep-Oct); Lancet, The (Aug); medRxiv (Jun); Microbes and Infectious Diseases (Aug); Nature (Aug); NEJM (Aug); Obesity Reviews (Sep); Tobacco Control (Aug); WHO website (Aug)
Africa’s invisible Parkinson’s problem
Aluminum-adsorbed vaccines and chronic diseases in childhood: a nationwide cohort study
An analysis of colorectal cancer in Ghana: implications for low and middle income countries
A decade later, what have we learned from the Zika epidemic in children with intrauterine exposure?
Environmental noise in Europe 2025 (European Environment Agency report)
Global radiology: building equitable and effective partnerships with low and middle-income countries
Hospital ownership and surgical outcomes in East, Central, and Southern Africa
How climate change is threatening Africa by supercharging Rift Valley fever
Incident dementia across neighbourhood material deprivation: implications for underdiagnosis
Long COVID rates higher in women: evidence grows
Medicine’s changemakers—meet the medics fighting for health equity
People are being involuntarily committed, jailed after spiraling into "ChatGPT psychosis"
Rethinking the evidence on COVID-19 in Africa
ACS Central Science (Jun); Addiction (Aug); American Journal of Infection Control (Jul); American Journal of Ophthalmology (Aug); American Journal of Surgery, The (Jul); Annals of Internal Medicine (Jul); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Sep); BMC Infectious Diseases (Jul); BMC Medical Education (Jul); BMJ, The (Jul); Clinical Imaging (Sep-in progress); European Environment Agency website (Jun); Futurism website (Jun); Infectious Diseases Now (Sep); JAMA (Jul); JAMA Surgery (Jul); Lancet, The (Jul); Lancet Infectious Diseases, The (Aug); Medscape (Jul)
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