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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.

December 2025

Assessing the socioeconomic inequalities in cervical cancer screening in sub-Saharan Africa

Between patients and populations: teaching the social determinants of health at medical school

Changes in vaping trends since the announcement of an impending ban on disposable vapes: a population study in Great Britain

Changes to UK soft drinks tax are a missed opportunity for public health

Does neighborhood redevelopment reduce obesity? Evidence from Jordan Downs in Watts, Los Angeles

Evaluating the impact of vaping facts films on vaping harm perceptions among young adults in the UK: a randomized on‐line experiment

Global prevalence and associated factors of intestinal parasitic infections among institutionalized populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Global, regional, national burden, trends and health inequality of neglected tropical diseases and malaria from 1990 to 2021

How e-cigarettes compromise children’s human rights

The impact of eating behaviors on ultraprocessed food consumption over 12 months in children

Indoor air pollution exposure and acute respiratory infection among under-five children in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies

Maternal paracetamol (acetaminophen) use during pregnancy and risk of autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in offspring: umbrella review of systematic reviews

A meta‐analytic review of the relationship between racial discrimination and alcohol and other drug use outcomes in minoritised racial/ethnic groups

Microalbuminuria among HIV/AIDS patients in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

PFAS exposure and postoperative weight regain in adolescents after bariatric surgery (Teen-LABS study)

The physiological impact of viewing original artworks vs. reprints – see also: The positive impact of art on the body

Policies to halt and reverse the rise in ultra-processed food production, marketing, and consumption

Prevalence of clinical obesity in US adults, 2017–2020

Projecting global trends and inequalities in adult overweight and obesity, 2023–2040: findings from the NCD-RisC database

Protecting children from ultra-processed foods

Towards unified global action on ultra-processed foods: understanding commercial determinants, countering corporate power, and mobilising a public health response

Ultra-processed foods and human health: the main thesis and the evidence

Viral etiology of acute respiratory infections in Sub-Saharan Africa during the pre-COVID-19 period (2006–2019): a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sources

Addiction (Sep-Dec); BMC Infectious Diseases (Nov); BMJ (Nov); Internal Medicine Journal (Sep); International Journal for Equity in Health (Oct); King’s College London website (Oct); Lancet (Nov); Obesity (Sep-Nov)

November 2025

Achieving cervical cancer elimination: an ecological assessment of global determinants using a policy determinant model

Causes and risk factors for deaths in young infants in South Asia: the ANISA prospective population-based observational cohort study

Developing the 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema in infants and children: key reflections on processes and methods

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation (updated Cochrane review)

Embedding research capacity strengthening in multicountry sexual health research

Financing policies to sustain improved prevention, control, and management of non-communicable diseases and mental health conditions

A global analysis of quarantine and isolation policies governing outbreak responses

Global antibiotic consumption and regional antimicrobial resistance, 2010–21: an analysis of pharmaceutical sales and antimicrobial resistance surveillance data

The global, regional, and national burden of cancer, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Health worker unemployment in countries with critical health worker shortages: a rapid synthesis of evidence from 33 countries

Impact of scaling up breastfeeding on reducing the global burden of non-communicable diseases in mothers and children: a population-based modelling analysis for 132 low-income and middle-income countries

A landscape analysis of the vaccine ecosystem in Africa: research and development funding, clinical trials, regulation, and manufacturing readiness

Mapping inequities in global vaccine sentiment research

Optimising small island developing states and overseas countries and territories classification for comparative public health research: an alternative methodological approach

Oral nicotine pouches for cessation or reduction of use of other tobacco or nicotine products (new Cochrane review)

Progress towards universal health coverage in South Asia, 2000–2030: an examination of the twin elements of primary healthcare provision and financial protection

Protein powders and shakes contain high levels of lead

Sheltered yet unscreened: exploring cancer screening rates and barriers in the unhoused (homeless) population

Wartime food availability in the Gaza Strip, October 2023 to August 2024: a retrospective analysis

Sources

American Journal of Surgery (Oct); BMJ Global Health (Oct-Nov); Cochrane Library (Oct); Consumer Reports website (Oct); Lancet (Oct); Lancet Global Health (Nov)

October 2025

Breast cancer overall survival, annual risks of death, and survival gap apportionment in sub-Saharan Africa (ABC-DO): 7-year follow-up of a prospective cohort study

Cross-sectional survey to assess hospital system readiness for hemorrhage during and after Cesarean delivery in Africa

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)

Effectiveness of measures taken by governments to support hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review

Effects of reductions in US foreign assistance on HIV, tuberculosis, family planning, and maternal and child health: a modelling study

Epidemiological and demographic trends and projections in global health from 1970 to 2050: a descriptive analysis from the third Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, Global Health 2050

Health justice in fragile and shock-prone settings: from theory to practice towards building resilient health systems

Heatwaves: how air pollution is worsening effects on health

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics

Implementation strategies to increase the uptake and impact of molecular WHO-recommended rapid diagnostic tests: evidence from a mixed-methods systematic review

Medical oxygen service readiness and service coverage in seven countries in Africa and Asia: a cross-sectional survey and clinical audit

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

Progress in epidemic-ready primary health care: early pilot results from four African countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda), December 2023 – October 2024

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

What’s next for sugar taxes?

Sources

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)

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