233 papers
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 of Massachusetts correctional officers reveals that higher trust in vaccines and a prior positive COVID-19 test are the strongest predictors of voluntary vaccine uptake, while low trust and lack of prior infection correlate with hesitancy despite the severe risks posed by the pandemic in correctional settings.
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.
This cross-sectional study of 707 Indian district hospitals reveals that widespread, co-occurring workforce deficits across multiple health cadres severely constrain the health systems-level feasibility of implementing surgical task-sharing and shifting, suggesting that policy adoption must account for systemic staffing limitations beyond mere clinical effectiveness.
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 cross-sectional study of Johnson & Johnson-sponsored trials shared via the YODA Project demonstrates that data sharing generates substantial, sustained secondary research, with external investigators increasingly contributing over time through diverse analytical approaches that achieve comparable scientific impact to internal studies.
The study introduces the Generative AI Meta-Evaluation (GAME) framework to systematically quantify global disparities in high BMI intervention difficulty across 226 locations, revealing that lower socio-demographic development and specific socio-cultural factors significantly increase intervention challenges while identifying "Cognition and Awareness" as the most critical determinant.
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 large-scale multivariate meta-analysis of over 1.4 million participants reveals that subjective social disconnection, particularly loneliness, is a robust and clinically significant correlate of pain across diverse populations and dimensions, outperforming objective social isolation as a predictor and highlighting social connectedness as a vital non-pharmacological target for pain management.
This study demonstrates that applying Bayesian phylodynamic methods to longitudinal wastewater genomic data enables the early detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants, the identification of cryptic transmission missed by clinical surveillance, and the reconstruction of viral spread dynamics in a population affected by seasonal student mobility.
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.
This study proposes a novel two-stage hybrid framework that combines deep learning for capturing latent weather dynamics with a hurdle model using Extreme Gradient Boosting to effectively forecast climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and dysentery in data-scarce regions, demonstrating superior performance over traditional baselines in handling zero-inflated incidence data.
Based on 2024–2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey data, overall nicotine and tobacco use among US middle and high school students slightly declined, yet the landscape shifted significantly toward increased disposable e-cigarette use, frequent consumption, and dominant preferences for specific brands and flavors.
This study analyzes global preterm birth trends from 1990 to 2023 and projects them to 2050, revealing that while mortality and disability-adjusted life years have significantly declined, prevalence is rising and the burden remains disproportionately high in low socio-demographic index regions, necessitating targeted interventions for vulnerable populations.
A quality improvement initiative assessing unsheltered adults in San Francisco revealed a high prevalence of acute cardiovascular risks, particularly severe hypertension, underscoring the urgent need for targeted outreach, primary care referrals, and health education to mitigate future cardiovascular events.