384 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 paper presents the design and pilot clinical evaluation of BreathAlert, a low-cost, continuous respiratory monitor using abdominal motion sensors that demonstrated accurate respiratory rate measurement for preterm newborns in both US and Malawian hospital settings, offering a viable solution for low-resource environments where manual counting is infeasible.
This experimental hut trial in Tanzania demonstrates that dual-active ingredient long-lasting insecticidal nets, particularly Interceptor G2 and Veeralin, significantly outperform pyrethroid-only nets against highly resistant *Anopheles funestus* populations but show no significant advantage against predominantly *An. arabiensis* populations.
This qualitative study explores how complex political dynamics, governance challenges, and stakeholder interactions shaped the implementation of Ghana's COVID-19 mass vaccination programme, highlighting the critical need for transparent governance, improved coordination, and local manufacturing capacity to strengthen future pandemic preparedness in resource-constrained settings.
A 2025 cross-sectional study of 555 medical students in Northern Vietnam reveals that exposure to both contact and non-contact sexual violence is a significant, independent predictor of increased psychological distress and post-traumatic stress symptoms, underscoring the urgent need for trauma-informed mental health support in the region.
This cross-sectional study of 1,056 adolescents in Bangladesh reveals that residing in high-salinity coastal areas since birth is independently associated with significantly elevated systolic blood pressure, even after adjusting for confounding factors like diet and body mass index.
Although 93.7% of at-risk middle-aged adults in a semi-urban Nigerian community were aware of stroke, only 35.4% possessed adequate combined knowledge of its symptoms and risk factors, with good heart disease knowledge and a prior hypertension diagnosis identified as key positive predictors of comprehensive stroke literacy.
This qualitative study in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo reveals how conflict-disrupted sociocultural practices, including stigmatized burial rituals and spiritual attributions of blame, hinder the disclosure and reporting of maternal and perinatal deaths, thereby undermining surveillance systems and necessitating culturally responsive, community-engaged interventions.
This 24-month retrospective cohort study demonstrates that while a dedicated diabetes and hypertension clinic is feasible to establish in rural Haiti and yields significant blood pressure improvements among returning patients, it faces critical challenges with high early attrition (54% single-visit rate) and limited durable glycemic control, highlighting the urgent need to prioritize patient retention and health-system investment.
This study of 804 women in rural Pakistan reveals that while adverse childhood experiences increase the risk of maternal depression, benevolent childhood experiences independently reduce depressive symptoms and buffer the negative impact of low-to-moderate adversity, highlighting the importance of fostering positive developmental resources alongside reducing exposure to trauma.
This study analyzes YouTube comments regarding the 2026 Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda, revealing that public discourse is characterized by a complex mix of mistrust, misinformation, and geopolitical anxiety alongside religious and cultural interpretations, thereby highlighting the urgent need for health communication strategies that address these multifaceted dimensions to rebuild public trust.