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Global prevalence, years lived with disability, and trends in anemia burden by severity and cause, 1990–2021

3 Aug, 2023 | 13:43h | UTC

Prevalence, years lived with disability, and trends in anaemia burden by severity and cause, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 – The Lancet Haematology

News Release: New study reveals global anemia cases remain persistently high among women and children. Anemia rates decline for men – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

 

Commentary on Twitter

 


WHO | Seven out of 10 people protected by at least one tobacco control measure

2 Aug, 2023 | 14:14h | UTC

News Release: Seven out of 10 people protected by at least one tobacco control measure – World Health Organization

See also: MPOWER measures

Report: WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2023: protect people from tobacco smoke – World Health Organization

Commentaries:

While Anti-Smoking Policies Cover 70% of Global Population, Taxation is Under-Utilised – Health Policy Watch

Expert reaction to WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2023 – Science Media Centre

 

Commentary on Twitter

 


Study | Childhood deaths in high-mortality settings mostly preventable; infection, malnutrition top causes

31 Jul, 2023 | 14:05h | UTC

Causes of Death Among Infants and Children in the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Network – JAMA Network Open

Invited Commentary: Need for a Structural Approach to Promote Child Survival – JAMA Network Open

News Release: Eight out of ten child deaths in low-income countries could be prevented – Barcelona Institute for Global Health

 


New WHO lists of essential medicines

28 Jul, 2023 | 14:23h | UTC

News Release: WHO endorses landmark public health decisions on Essential Medicines for Multiple Sclerosis – World Health Organization

Lists of Essential Medicines

Model Lists of Essential Medicines – World Health Organization

Model Lists of Essential Medicines for Children – World Health Organization

 

Commentary on Twitter

 


WHO world drowning prevention day 2023

27 Jul, 2023 | 13:12h | UTC

World Drowning Prevention Day 2023 – World Health Organization

Report: Hidden depths: the global investment case for drowning prevention – World Health Organization

Related:

Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment and Prevention of Drowning: 2019 Update

Tracing the emergence of drowning prevention on the global health and development agenda: a policy analysis – The Lancet Global Health

WHO Guideline on the prevention of drowning through provision of day-care and basic swimming and water safety skills – World health Organization

Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment and Prevention of Drowning: 2019 Update

Prevention of Drowning – Pediatrics

The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study – Injury Prevention

Preventing drowning: an implementation guide – World Health Organization

Global report on drowning: preventing a leading killer – World Health Organization

Hidden Hazards: An Exploration of Open Water Drowning and Risks for Children – Safe Kids Worldwide

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 


Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis and its etiologies, 1990–2019

25 Jul, 2023 | 13:55h | UTC

Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis and its aetiologies, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 – The Lancet Neurology

 

Commentary on Twitter

 


Key factors associated with quality of postnatal care: a pooled analysis of 23 countries

25 Jul, 2023 | 13:50h | UTC

Key factors associated with quality of postnatal care: a pooled analysis of 23 countries – eClinicalMedicine

 


New WHO guidance on the role of HIV viral suppression in improving individual health and reducing transmission

24 Jul, 2023 | 13:17h | UTC

News Release: New WHO guidance on HIV viral suppression and scientific updates released at IAS 2023 – World Health Organization

WHO Guidance: The role of HIV viral suppression in improving individual health and reducing transmission – Word Health Organization

Related WHO Guidelines:

WHO recommends optimizing HIV testing services – World Health Organization

Primary health care and HIV: convergent actions – World Health Organization

 


Systematic Review | Low-level HIV viremia (below 1000 copies/mL) linked to minimal sexual transmission risk

24 Jul, 2023 | 13:15h | UTC

The risk of sexual transmission of HIV in individuals with low-level HIV viraemia – The Lancet

Editorial: HIV is sexually untransmittable when viral load is undetectable – The Lancet

Related: Study: Growing Acceptability of “Undetectable = Untransmittable” but Widespread Misunderstanding of HIV Transmission Risk Persists (several texts on the subject)

 

Commentary on Twitter

 


M-A | Exposure to smoke, overcrowding, poor living conditions, and contact with TB cases identified as risk conditions for pediatric TB

24 Jul, 2023 | 12:43h | UTC

Risk factors for the development of tuberculosis among the pediatric population: a systematic review and meta-analysis – European Journal of Pediatrics

 


Systematic Review | Prevalence and risk factors of cardiovascular diseases in young adults across 204 countries, 1990-2019

17 Jul, 2023 | 13:47h | UTC

Global, regional, and national burden of cardiovascular diseases in youths and young adults aged 15–39 years in 204 countries/territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis of Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 – BMC Medicine

 


WHO Guideline | Policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing

12 Jul, 2023 | 13:52h | UTC

Policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing: WHO guideline – World Health Organization

News Release: WHO recommends stronger policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing – World Health Organization

Commentary: WHO Launches New Guideline for Protecting Children from Unhealthy Food Marketing – Health Policy Watch

 


Global Burden of Disease Study | Understanding global trends of infectious diseases in younger population, 1990-2019

10 Jul, 2023 | 13:54h | UTC

The unfinished agenda of communicable diseases among children and adolescents before the COVID-19 pandemic, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 – The Lancet

News Release: Global efforts to reduce infectious diseases must extend beyond early childhood – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

Commentary: Global infectious disease burden shifting from younger to older youth – CIDRAP

 


Global incidence in hospital-associated infections resistant to antibiotics: an analysis of point prevalence surveys from 99 countries

30 Jun, 2023 | 14:33h | UTC

Global incidence in hospital-associated infections resistant to antibiotics: An analysis of point prevalence surveys from 99 countries – PLOS Medicine

 


Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050

26 Jun, 2023 | 01:00h | UTC

Summary: This systematic review analyzed the global burden of diabetes, including trends, projections, and attributions to risk factors. It considered data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), covering 204 countries and territories.

In 2021, an estimated 529 million people worldwide were living with diabetes. Regionally, the highest rates were observed in North Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania. Type 2 diabetes accounted for 96% of diabetes cases and 95.4% of diabetes DALYs (disability-adjusted life-years). More than half of global type 2 diabetes DALYs were attributable to high body mass index (BMI).

Predictions suggest that more than 1.31 billion people will have diabetes by 2050, with high prevalence rates in North Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. The study notes the ongoing challenge of preventing and controlling type 2 diabetes, largely driven by increasing obesity. An understanding of disparities in risk profiles and disease burdens can inform strategies to control diabetes risk factors.

Article: Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 – The Lancet

Editorial: Diabetes: a defining disease of the 21st century – The Lancet

News Release: Global diabetes cases to soar from 529 million to 1.3 billion by 2050 – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 


WHO outlines 40 research priorities on antimicrobial resistance

26 Jun, 2023 | 00:50h | UTC

News release: WHO outlines 40 research priorities on antimicrobial resistance – World Health Organization

Report: Global research agenda for antimicrobial resistance in human health – World Health Organization

 

Commentary on Twitter

 


WHO Report | Water, sanitation, hygiene, waste and electricity services in health care facilities

23 Jun, 2023 | 13:41h | UTC

Water, sanitation, hygiene, waste and electricity services in health care facilities: progress on the fundamentals – World Health Organization

News Release: Frontline health facilities faltering without water, sanitation, hygiene and electricity – WHO, UNICEF new report – World Health Organization

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 


Report | Global, regional, and national prevalence and mortality burden of sickle cell disease, 2000–2021

23 Jun, 2023 | 13:40h | UTC

Global, regional, and national prevalence and mortality burden of sickle cell disease, 2000–2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 – The Lancet Haematology

News Release: Sickle cell disease is 11 times more deadly than previously recorded – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 


Global Analysis | Disease burden linked to unsafe domestic water, sanitation, and hygiene

16 Jun, 2023 | 13:52h | UTC

Burden of disease attributable to unsafe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene in domestic settings: a global analysis for selected adverse health outcomes – The Lancet

 


Opinion | Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence

14 Jun, 2023 | 14:47h | UTC

Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence – BMJ Global Health

News Release: Doctors and public health experts join calls for halt to AI R&D until it’s regulated – BMJ Newsroom

 


Review | Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems

13 Jun, 2023 | 14:07h | UTC

Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems – The Lancet Global Health

Related:

Use of Wastewater for Mpox Outbreak Surveillance in California – New England Journal of Medicine

Wastewater network infrastructure in public health: Applications and learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic – PLOS Global Public Health

Opinion: Wastewater analysis can be a powerful public health tool—if it’s done sensibly.

CDC unveils its latest weapon in Covid-19 detection: wastewater.

CDC Report: Using Wastewater Surveillance Data to Support the COVID-19 Response — United States, 2020–2021.

Rapid, large-scale wastewater surveillance and automated reporting system enabled early detection of nearly 85% of COVID-19 cases on a University campus.

[Preprint] Wastewater genomic testing can effectively track COVID-19 variants of concern.

Human Waste Could Be The Next Big Weapon in Controlling COVID-19 – TIME

Next steps for wastewater testing to help end this pandemic — and prevent the next one – STAT

Sewage sleuths helped an Arizona town beat back Covid-19. For wastewater epidemiology, that’s just the start – STAT

The myriad ways sewage surveillance is helping fight COVID around the world – Nature

Testing sewage can give school districts, campuses and businesses a heads-up on the spread of COVID-19 – The Conversation

It’s time to begin a national wastewater testing program for Covid-19 – STAT

Coronavirus: Testing sewage an ‘easy win’ – BBC

Development of wastewater pooled surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 from congregate living settings – high sensitivity, but unable to distinguish new infectious cases from persistent convalescent shedding.

 


AHA Scientific Statement | Contaminant metals as cardiovascular risk factors

13 Jun, 2023 | 14:04h | UTC

Contaminant metals as cardiovascular risk factors: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association – Journal of the American Heart Association

News Release: Chronic exposure to lead, cadmium and arsenic increases risk of cardiovascular disease – American Heart Association

Top Things to Know: Contaminant Metals as CV Risk Factors – American Heart Association

Commentary: Toxic Metals: The Poisons that are “Killing Us Softly” – American Heart Association

 

Commentary on Twitter

 


M-A | Kangaroo mother care reduces mortality in preterm and low birth weight infants

13 Jun, 2023 | 13:41h | UTC

Kangaroo mother care for preterm or low birth weight infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis – BMJ Global Health

News Release: Effects of KMC in preterm and low birth weight infants – BMJ / News Medical

Related:

M-A | The efficacy of Kangaroo-Mother care to the clinical outcomes of LBW and premature infants

Immediate “Kangaroo Mother Care” and Survival of Infants with Low Birth Weight – New England Journal of Medicine

Effect of community-initiated kangaroo mother care on survival of infants with low birthweight: a randomised controlled trial – The Lancet

Effect of Community-Initiated Kangaroo Mother Care on Postpartum Depressive Symptoms and Stress Among Mothers of Low-Birth-Weight Infants: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Network Open

Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality in low birthweight infants – Cochrane Library

Preterm care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative risk analysis of neonatal deaths averted by kangaroo mother care versus mortality due to SARS-CoV-2 infection – EclinicalMedicine

 


Review | Drivers of inappropriate antibiotic use in low- and middle-income countries

12 Jun, 2023 | 13:35h | UTC

Drivers of inappropriate antibiotic use in low- and middle-income countries – JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance

 


Review | Integrating eye care in low-income and middle-income settings

6 Jun, 2023 | 14:21h | UTC

Integrating eye care in low-income and middle-income settings: a scoping review – BMJ Open

 


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