- Nutritional services in primary healthcare in the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina: strengthening prevention through multidisciplinary approaches. [Journal Article]Int J Public Health. 2026; 71:1609839.IJ
- CONCLUSIONS: Findings from healthcare personnel highlight the need for a systemic reorganization of service provision, the development of standardized nutritional guidelines, and the strengthening of preventive services through multidisciplinary approaches.
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- Joint trajectories of health behaviors and their associations with healthcare utilization and expenditure. [Journal Article]Int J Public Health. 2026; 71:1609686.IJ
- CONCLUSIONS: Sex- and age-specific behavioral trajectories were differentially associated with healthcare utilization and expenditure, underscoring the importance of multidimensional behavioral patterns in developing preventive strategies to reduce healthcare burdens.
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- Evaluating indoor residual spraying in Côte d'Ivoire: the role of routine malaria data quality. [Journal Article]Int J Public Health. 2026; 71:1608766.IJ
- CONCLUSIONS: Improvements in data quality by scrutinizing test positivity rates and health facility reporting can help avoid overly optimistic impact estimations for IRS. Incidence control districts remain inevitable in order to factor out impact confounders.
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- The association between green space, socioeconomic deprivation, and COVID-19 infection: a population-based cross-sectional study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Woodland may provide opportunities for safer social contact while attempting to balance the risk of viral transmission and the potential for positive health behaviors, particularly in more socioeconomically deprived areas. The government should work with urban planners and improve the availability of green spaces as part of future pandemic preparedness strategies.
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- The impact of armed conflict exposure on preterm birth, stillbirth, and neonatal anthropometric measures: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [Systematic Review]Int J Public Health. 2026; 71:1609784.IJ
- CONCLUSIONS: The absence of adverse associations should not be interpreted as evidence of protection. These findings highlight methodological limitations in conflict epidemiology and the urgent need for community-based surveillance systems capturing outcomes among vulnerable populations unable to access healthcare during armed conflicts.
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- Considering young and socially marginalized people in urban revitalization: evidence on enablers and barriers from a mid-size Canadian city. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The factors we identified as enabling and constraining consideration of young and socially marginalized people who experience neighbourhood revitalization firsthand can serve as a springboard to devise solutions for inclusive and health-promoting urban planning.
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- Stress and coping among dual caregivers in China: a grounded theory study of intergenerational caregiving. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Dual caregiving is a dynamic process in which competing demands, resource allocation, and strategy adjustment reinforce one another. Continuous, affordable, and time-matched support may strengthen families' capacity to sustain care.
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- Work ability literacy among managers in the health and social care sector - a qualitative study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: To effectively support work ability, managers need adequate resources and more education on contents of work ability literacy. Especially skills and possibilities to prevent work disability are needed.
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- Deploying artificial intelligence for occupational and environmental health in waste management: a systematic review. [Systematic Review]
- CONCLUSIONS: Current public health research has largely neglected health risk reduction gains from waste management technological innovation. Institutional innovations that can facilitate responsible AI deployment are discussed. This interdisciplinary perspective underscores the necessity of cross-sector collaboration to tackle public health issues.
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- From evidence to action: expert perspectives on stakeholder dialogues in Swiss health policy. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Stakeholder dialogues function as boundary infrastructures that integrate evidence, experience, and values. When deliberately designed, they enhance the quality of reasoning, trust, and coordination, transforming evidence use from a technical exercise into a relational practice in health policymaking.
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- Pharmacy academicians' perception towards public health: a qualitative study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Strengthening public health education in pharmacy curricula and establishing policies that recognise pharmacists as frontline public health practitioners may enhance their contribution to population health.
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- Burden of chronic kidney disease among children and adolescents in the South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions, 1990 to 2021. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: CKD burden in children and adolescents in Asia-Pacific decreased from 1990 to 2021. Gender- and age-specific interventions and early treatment of CKD-related complications may help improve patient care, especially in regions with lower SDI and Pacific Island countries.
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- Burden trends and disparities of metabolic risk-attributable peripheral arterial disease in China (1990-2035): a comparative analysis with G20 countries. [Journal Article]Int J Public Health. 2026; 71:1610164.IJ
- CONCLUSIONS: Our findings reveal a substantial and growing absolute PAD burden attributable to metabolic risks in China and G20 countries, with China exhibiting a distinct epidemiological pattern.
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- Social disparities, navigational health literacy, and unmet needs in Germany: results of a population survey. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Navigational health literacy was unequally distributed across groups and strongly associated with unmet needs but did not reduce the observed social disparities in access to care.
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