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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.

October 2024

Adolescent and youth-friendly health interventions in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review

Advancing collaborative research for health: why does collaboration matter?

Alcohol use and alcohol use disorders in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Beyond high-level recommendations and rule books: doing the ‘hard work’ of global health research – lessons and recommendations from an interdisciplinary global partnership

A call to bridge the diagnostic gap: diagnostic solutions for neonatal sepsis in low- and middle-income countries

Dementia: Africa’s unique opportunity for prevention amid rising cases

Evaluation indicators for access to cancer screening services: a scoping review

Food environments and association with household food insecurity: a systematic review

General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7·5 million participants

Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050

The global health and economic value of COVID-19 vaccination

Integrating social behavioural insights in risk communication and community engagement approaches for better health outcomes in Africa

Nutrition remains a top priority in Ukraine despite the ongoing war: the fight against trans fats

Phylogeography and reassortment patterns of human influenza A viruses in sub-Saharan Africa

Political decision-makers and mathematical modellers of infectious disease outbreaks: the sweet spot for engagement

Prepared for the polycrisis? The need for complexity science and systems thinking to address global and national evidence gap

Prevalence and patterns of gender disparity in workplace violence among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The relationship of social contacts with prisoners' mental health: a systematic review

A systematic review of interventions to promote human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in Africa

Trauma care supported through a global telemedicine initiative during the 2023–24 military assault on the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestinian territory: a case series

Unbearable suffering: mental health consequences of the October 2023 Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip

Sources

Addiction (Sep); BMJ, The (Sep); BMJ Global Health (Sep-Oct); Lancet, The (Aug-Oct); Public Health (Sep-Oct); Scientific Reports (Aug)

September 2024

Applying an equity lens to social prescribing

Changes over time of fruit, vegetable and sweets consumption among European adolescents and associations with sociodemographic characteristics

Chronic respiratory disease in Indigenous peoples

Community priorities in a landscape of environmental lead contamination

Core outcome sets for trials of interventions to prevent and to treat multimorbidity in adults in low and middle-income countries: the COSMOS study

Defining and identifying the critical elements of operational readiness for public health emergency events

Exercise referral schemes in the UK: mapping provision and aims

Female education ban by the Taliban: A descriptive survey study on suicidal ideation, mental health, and health-related quality of life among girls in Afghanistan

Frailty: a global health challenge in need of local action

Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on mental health among married women in Sri Lanka

Impact of urban farming on health: a systematic review

Inclusion of abortion-related care in national health benefit packages

Living labs for migrant health research

Measuring availability of and facility readiness to deliver comprehensive abortion care

A narrative review of challenges related to healthcare worker rights, roles and responsibilities in the provision of sexual and reproductive services in health facilities

The nexus of immigration regulation and health governance

Patterns of physical activity over 34 years in a large sample of adults: the HUNT study, Norway

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus exposure and infection among Indigenous and tribal populations

Problems accessing health care and under-5 mortality: a pooled analysis of 50 LMICs

A systematic review of the epidemiology and the public health implications of stroke in Sub-Saharan Africa

“They still phone even though they know I'm deaf”: exploring experiences of deaf people in health services in Wales, UK

Thirty-year trends of triple burden of disease in the adult population of Pakistan

Using a novel ‘difference-in-differences’ method and syndromic surveillance to estimate the change in local healthcare utilisation during periods of media reporting in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in England

Using narratives to correct politically charged health misinformation and address affective belief echoes

Sources

Advances in Global Health (Aug); BMJ Global Health (Aug); Journal of Public Health (Sep); Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (Aug); Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The (Jul); Public Health (Jul-Aug); Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (Aug)

August 2024

The 2022 symposium on dementia and brain aging in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Brazil should use its G20 leadership to support public health systems and promote decolonisation of global health

The burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Latin America, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease study

Communication disability in low and middle-income countries: a call to action

COVID-19 among migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons

Distribution of tuberculosis in migrant children and young people in Europe

Educational inequalities in cervical cancer screening participation in 24 European countries

Effects of discounting fruits, vegetables, and noncaloric beverages in New York City supermarkets on purchasing, intake, and weight

Germany's role in global health at a critical juncture

Health systems in India: analysing barriers to inclusive health leadership through a gender lens

Household water lead and hematologic toxic effects in chronic kidney disease

National, regional, and global trends in insufficient physical activity among adults from 2000 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 507 population-based surveys with 5·7 million participants

News media as a commercial determinant of health

A population-centered model for public health medicine

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus exposure and infection among Indigenous and tribal populations: a global systematic review and meta-analysis

A systematic review of whether Health Impact Assessment frameworks support best practice principles

Trends in sudden cardiac death in pilots: a post COVID-19 challenging crisis of global perspectives 2011-2023 (preprint)

Twenty years of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) research in low-income and middle-income countries: systematic evaluation of progress made in addressing WHO priorities for research in HSV-2 epidemiology and diagnostics

Weight stigma in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa: a scoping review

Sources

Alzheimer’s and Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association (Jun); BMJ, The (Jul); BMJ Global Health (Jul); eClinicalMedicine (Jul); JAMA Internal Medicine (Jul); Lancet, The (Jul); Lancet Global Health, The (Aug); medRxiv (Jul); Obesity (Jun); Obesity Facts (Jun); Public Health (Aug)