386 papers
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 qualitative study of 15 pharmacy staff reveals that while community pharmacies have significant potential to raise uterine cancer awareness among ethnic minority women through culturally tailored interventions, realizing this potential requires structured staff education and formalized pathways for timely patient referral.
This study utilizes an urban systems framework and hierarchical cluster analysis in Ibagué, Colombia, to demonstrate that dengue risk is significantly influenced by multi-scale socio-environmental typologies, with high-density commercial areas showing increased incidence while diverse, intermixed urban landscapes exhibit protective effects.
This concurrent mixed-methods study of Latino and Hispanic adults near Albuquerque, New Mexico, reveals that higher collective efficacy, informal social control, and specific sociodemographic factors significantly promote firearm safety engagement, while highlighting the need for community-driven interventions to address social ecological barriers and reduce firearm-related harms.
Mathematical modeling projects that unmitigated US funding cuts for TB and HIV programs in South Africa between 2025 and 2035 could reverse years of progress by causing hundreds of thousands of additional infections and deaths, underscoring the urgent need for rapid domestic and programmatic responses to avert these catastrophic outcomes.
This quasi-experimental study demonstrates that the lay provider-delivered Group Problem Management Plus (gPM+) intervention is feasible, acceptable, and effective in significantly reducing depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms among adults in urban informal settlements in Kenya.
This paper describes the successful harmonization of five diverse UK electronic birth cohorts, encompassing over 17.5 million births, into the OMOP Common Data Model to create a standardized, federated resource that enables large-scale, reproducible maternal and child health research across England, Scotland, and Wales without sharing individual-level data.
This systematic review and meta-analysis of 32 studies suggests that certain herbal sedatives, particularly chamomile and Melissa officinalis, may significantly improve insomnia outcomes, though the strength of this evidence is limited by substantial heterogeneity and a high risk of bias in the included trials.
This study utilized a climate-informed mathematical model calibrated with routine surveillance data from Moissala, Chad, to demonstrate that seasonal malaria chemoprevention reduced under-five malaria cases by 26% and identified a five-round schedule starting in mid-June as the optimal strategy for maximizing case reduction.
This study utilizes a hybrid maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylodynamic approach on nearly 10,000 SARS-CoV-2 Delta sequences to reveal that Georgia experienced at least 344 viral introductions with significant detection delays, identifying South Central Georgia as a critical transmission source despite lower case numbers, thereby providing actionable insights for optimizing public health surveillance and resource allocation.
This study reveals significant prevalence and multidrug resistance of Salmonella, Shigella, and Listeria monocytogenes in poultry feeds and ready-to-eat foods within conflict-affected Maiduguri, Nigeria, highlighting critical upstream contamination, matrix-specific resistance patterns, and the urgent need for enhanced One Health surveillance and hygiene interventions.