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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 study utilizes routine health records from Northwest London to demonstrate that patients with limited English proficiency experience higher rates of cardiometabolic conditions and greater healthcare utilization, highlighting the need for improved language support to address these health inequalities.
This modeling study across Brazil, India, and South Africa demonstrates that while only a few tuberculosis interventions—specifically vaccination, community-wide screening, and prison screening—can significantly reduce incident cases by 2050, many of these high-impact strategies are also cost-effective, necessitating a strategic shift in funding and policy toward broader population targets beyond clinic-diagnosed individuals.
Using a participatory realist evaluation framework, this study develops an initial program theory for peer support groups serving substance-affected family members in Canada, identifying how organizational support, skilled facilitation, and positive group culture interact to foster emotional wellbeing, self-efficacy, and reduced social isolation.
This study demonstrates that the "Parenting with Hope" program, adapted from a Ukrainian model and delivered via home visits to bereaved Colombian families, significantly improved caregiver mental health, parenting practices, and child behavioral outcomes while reducing violence against children in a post-pandemic crisis setting.
This cross-sectional ecological analysis of 2021 U.S. data reveals that higher state-level registered nurse density is significantly associated with lower age-adjusted COVID-19 mortality, explaining nearly 11% of the variability in death rates and underscoring the critical role of the nursing workforce in pandemic response.
A cluster randomised controlled trial in Brazil evaluating the "Growing up without violence" school-based intervention found no statistically significant improvement in adolescents' knowledge regarding child sexual abuse and exploitation risks compared to the control group.
This 2025 Delphi study involving Zambian experts reached a strong consensus on key barriers, facilitators, and digital strategies—such as decentralizing services, integrating mental health into HIV care, and implementing secure, low-data mHealth tools—to improve mental health service access for adolescents and young people living with HIV in Zambia.
This study successfully translated, culturally adapted, and validated the Bangla versions of the Acceptability, Appropriateness, and Feasibility Implementation Measures (AIM, IAM, and FIM) among 549 pregnant women in Bangladesh, demonstrating that the adapted scales possess excellent internal consistency, construct validity, and convergent validity for use in maternal and child health research.
A prospective study of 504 dispensing events in Kakamega County, Kenya, reveals that nearly half of antibiotic sales occur over-the-counter with frequent use of broad-spectrum agents and incomplete courses driven by financial constraints, underscoring the urgent need to integrate community pharmacy data into national antimicrobial stewardship strategies.
The Wellbeing Ways study protocol outlines a three-year, co-designed mixed-methods project in Queensland secondary schools that implements the culturally grounded What Matters 2Youth measure to assess Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students' wellbeing and develop place-based support strategies.