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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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
A global analysis of quarantine and isolation policies governing outbreak responses
Mapping inequities in global vaccine sentiment research
Oral nicotine pouches for cessation or reduction of use of other tobacco or nicotine products (new Cochrane review)
Protein powders and shakes contain high levels of lead
Wartime food availability in the Gaza Strip, October 2023 to August 2024: a retrospective analysis
American Journal of Surgery (Oct); BMJ Global Health (Oct-Nov); Cochrane Library (Oct); Consumer Reports website (Oct); Lancet (Oct); Lancet Global Health (Nov)
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)
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