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Public and global health examines how we protect communities from disease, manage outbreaks, and improve well-being across the world. This vital field connects diverse research on everything from infectious disease control and vaccination strategies to the social factors that shape our collective health. Because these studies often impact policy and daily life, understanding them quickly is more important than ever.
At Gist.Science, we track every new preprint published in this category on medRxiv to ensure you never miss a breakthrough. We process each submission to provide both plain-language explanations for general readers and detailed technical summaries for experts, making complex findings accessible to everyone.
Below are the latest papers in public and global health, freshly summarized from the most recent medRxiv releases.
This cross-sectional study of India's National Family Health Survey-5 data reveals that children who recently migrated are significantly less likely to be fully immunized compared to non-migrant children, regardless of household wealth or social group, highlighting recent migration as a critical barrier to vaccination coverage.
A cross-sectional analysis of over 7,000 maternity appointments in South East London reveals that despite national guidelines recommending universal domestic violence and abuse (DVA) screening, enquiry rates were inconsistent and significantly influenced by demographic and socioeconomic factors, suggesting midwives selectively prioritize screening based on perceived risk rather than adhering to routine protocols for all patients.
This study analyzed 146,000 participants across 48 countries using Bayesian networks to reveal significant regional variations in cardiometabolic risk structures, demonstrating that public health strategies must be tailored to specific geographic contexts rather than relying on generalized models.
This paper outlines the protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial in Australian secondary schools designed to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of the Schools Education Program—a multi-component sexual violence prevention intervention—while integrating realist evaluation methods to understand the mechanisms and contexts driving its outcomes.
A mixed-methods evaluation in Rwanda demonstrates that integrated Early Childhood Development centres located in market and cross-border settings significantly improved child nutrition, developmental outcomes, and household income, despite a noted increase in reports of physical punishment.
This interdisciplinary implementation study demonstrates that the ECAIL childhood obesity prevention trial successfully maintained its reach and acceptability among socially disadvantaged families in France despite the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis, thanks to adaptive strategies like the rapid resumption of home-based visits and flexible implementation approaches.
A sex-stratified analysis of the 2022 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey reveals that despite nearly half of diagnosed adults with hypertension or diabetes having health insurance, substantial treatment gaps persist across all wealth and sex groups, suggesting that expanding insurance enrollment alone is insufficient to improve chronic care access without addressing deeper systemic barriers like medicine availability and affordability.
This study estimates that targeted vaccination of *Mycobacterium tuberculosis*-infected high-risk individuals in the United States with an M72/AS01E-like vaccine would require between 217 and 2,486 vaccinations to prevent a single tuberculosis case, a range comparable to established adult vaccines.
This qualitative study in Mali reveals that while patient associations possess strong experiential legitimacy, their ability to effectively serve as knowledge intermediaries in breast cancer governance is currently constrained by fragmented institutional structures, limited access to data, and epistemic biases favoring biomedical evidence, necessitating coordinated strategies to build structured interfaces and address gendered barriers for sustainable knowledge translation.
A modeling study demonstrates that targeted vaccination strategies focusing on high-risk groups in the United States, particularly non-U.S.-born persons and people living with HIV, could substantially reduce tuberculosis incidence, preventing up to 51.8% of annual cases under optimistic scenarios.