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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 systematic review and meta-analysis of 38 studies concludes that school-based interventions, particularly psychological and social-emotional skills training, are effective in reducing youth loneliness, although findings should be interpreted with caution due to significant study heterogeneity and reporting inconsistencies.
This cross-sectional study of over 62,000 older adults in India found that household use of unclean cooking fuels is significantly associated with increased depression symptoms, particularly among those living in urban areas.
This study concludes that while AI-driven disease surveillance at Tanzania's Julius Nyerere International Airport is currently infeasible due to infrastructure deficits, workforce gaps, and policy limitations, strategic investments in these areas could enable future implementation to strengthen public health security in low-resource settings.
This study of Ethiopian caregivers of children with severe acute malnutrition reveals that higher caregiver knowledge, driven by factors like literacy, wealth, and health service utilization but hindered by depression, is significantly associated with improved infant feeding and water, sanitation, and hygiene practices.
This study of 859 secondary school students in Bukavu, DRC, found that young people's intention to use mobile health apps for comprehensive sexuality education is primarily driven by performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and social influence, with age serving as a significant moderator that strengthens these effects among younger adolescents.
This study of nine Southeast Asian countries from 2013 to 2022 reveals that while aggregate health spending does not significantly impact HIV incidence, targeted infectious disease service coverage effectively reduces new infections, whereas expanded reproductive health coverage and out-of-pocket expenditures correlate with increased incidence due to improved case detection and access barriers, respectively.
A quasi-experimental study in Cameroon found that a theory-driven health education intervention significantly improved commercial motorcycle riders' knowledge, attitudes, and helmet use, but failed to increase the adoption of other protective equipment, highlighting the need for complementary structural policies.
This paper introduces the hubverse, a suite of standards and software tools designed to facilitate collaborative infectious disease modeling through centralized hubs, thereby enhancing the relevance, transparency, and robustness of predictions for global decision-makers.
This study finds that while older U.S. smokers encounter e-cigarette content on social media less frequently than younger users, such exposure is positively associated with their intentions to use e-cigarettes in the future, suggesting social media may influence adoption through mechanisms other than altering risk perceptions.
While geostatistical surveys offer significant cost and efficiency gains for schistosomiasis impact assessments in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, the adoption of updated 2022 WHO guidance substantially expands treatment eligibility and resource requirements, making accurate fine-scale data essential for effective planning and budgeting.