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  1. Health Technology Assessment (HTA) plays a crucial role in informing healthcare policy and decision-making, especially in low- and middle-income countries like Iran. Despite its potential, the development of H...

    Authors: Meysam Behzadifar, Saeed Shahabi, Ahad Bakhtiari, Samad Azari, Mohammad Yarahmadi, Aidin Aryankhesal, Banafsheh Darvishi Teli and Masoud Behzadifar
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:83
  2. The number of reported maternal mental health (MH) difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic was higher than during the pre-pandemic period. Findings on the link between the COVID-19 pandemic and children’s de...

    Authors: Kenneth Okelo, Louise Marryat, Aja Murray, Josiah King, Iain Hardie, James P. Boardman, Michael V. Lombardo, Sarah Stock, Rachael Wood and Bonnie Auyeung
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:82
  3. Air pollutants and meteorological conditions have shown significant adverse effects on human health; however, their impact on mental health remains inconclusive and underexplored. Thus, this study aimed to inv...

    Authors: Shiva Raj Acharya, Jeevan Bhatta, Diwash Timilsina, Navin Ray and Sandip Pahari
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:81
  4. Despite its potential with regard to the prevention and early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC), participation in the organized CRC screening programme of the Belgian region of Flanders is suboptimal. The r...

    Authors: Simon Van den bergh, Lidia Casas, Gökhan Ertaylan, Guido Van Hal and Jos Bessems
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:79
  5. Knowledge translation (KT) interventions encompass a variety of activities, platforms, tools, approaches, and strategies designed to leverage research evidence to enhance health policy and practice. This study...

    Authors: Resham B. Khatri, Aklilu Endalamaw, Tesfaye Mengistu, Daniel Erku, Eskinder Wolka, Frehiwot Nigatu, Anteneh Zewdie and Yibeltal Assefa
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:78
  6. The association between possible sarcopenia, sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity on multimorbidity risk remains poorly investigating. We aimed to evaluate the associations between possible sarcopenia, sarcopenia...

    Authors: Kaixin Zhang, Xiaowei Zheng and Tao Ma
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:77
  7. The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected vulnerable populations in terms of comorbidity and socioeconomic disadvantage, both between and within countries. This retrospective population-based cohort st...

    Authors: Alice Corsaro, Federico Banchelli, Rossella Buttazzi, Enrico Ricchizzi, Carlo Gagliotti, Elisa Fabbri, Elisa Gentilotti, Maurizia Rolli, Evelina Tacconelli, Maria Luisa Moro, Nicola Caranci and Elena Berti
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:76
  8. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours, including unhealthy alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, smoking, and nonadherence to dietary recommendations, are major contributors to non-communicable diseases and morta...

    Authors: Leonie Klompstra, Marie Löf, Cecilia Björkelund, Mai-Lis Hellenius, Lena V. Kallings, Marju Orho-Melander, Patrik Wennberg, Preben Bendtsen and Marcus Bendtsen
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:75
  9. This study analyzed the status of research trends in pediatric diseases in North Korea, as reported in North Korean medical journals. Despite the censorship and control exerted by the North Korean government, ...

    Authors: I Re Lee, Hae Won Lee, Hanna Jung, Songyi Han, Shinki An and Woo Taek Jeon
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:74
  10. Assessing the burden of mental health disorders is critical for planning the best healthcare services and responding to community needs. This study aimed to assess the mental health burden in Abu Dhabi, United...

    Authors: Latifa Baynouna Al Ketbi, Fatima Mohsen Shuaib, Jawaher Mohammed Al Nuaimi, Noura Saeed Al Alawi, Nico Nagelkerke, Amal Abdul Rahim Al Zarooni, Noura AlShamsi, Toqa Fahmawee, Basil AlHashaikeh, Rudina AlKetbi, Muna AlDobaee, Nayla AlAhbabi, AlYazia AlAzeezi, Sanaa AlKalbani, Ekram Saeed, Mohammed AlMansoori…
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:73
  11. In Miami-Dade County Florida (Miami), the rate of newly diagnosed HIV per 100,000 population is four times the national rate with a large majority of transmission due to male-to-male sex. Latinx men are prescr...

    Authors: Kyle J. Self, Ariana Johnson, Lacey Craker, Rebe Silvey, Stephen Fallon, Suzanne Randolph Cunningham and Mariano Kanamori
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:72
  12. In rural areas of China, the prevalence of obesity in children has grown continuously, becoming a major problem in the field of pediatrics. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between ...

    Authors: Mi Zhou, Yuexun Wang, Sen Yao, Xiuzhe Wen, Jiayi Sun, Yang Wang and Li Huang
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:69
  13. The global aging population is rapidly increasing, which has led to a growing prevalence of obesity among the elderly. Body mass index (BMI) is a crucial measure of obesity and is linked to an increased risk o...

    Authors: Lin Guo, Jia Song, Li Yang, Ziyi Wu, Hengzhi Shi, Lixiang Song, Tianmiao Dong, Linlin Yue, Yunwei Li and Ying Liu
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:68
  14. Studying the spatial pattern of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and its environmental impactors is crucial for both providing timely medical assistance and implementing preventative measures. Existing re...

    Authors: Yitong Liao, Hui Chen, Shuli Zhou, Yuanwei Fu, Qiangrong Zhai, Qingbian Ma, Yan Xiong and Suhong Zhou
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:67
  15. Organ donation requests to families often occur during moments of profound grief and create an emotional burden that is compounded by the varying emotional responses to circumstances surrounding death. These r...

    Authors: Plamena P. Powla, Deekshitha Turaka and Farima Fakhri
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:66
  16. Gender norms shape rights, privileges, and societal roles, impacting health and well-being. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), while young people may reject harmful gender discrimination, they often ...

    Authors: Irene Ifeyinwa Eze, Chinyere Ojiugo Mbachu, Ozioma Nwankpa and Obinna Onwujekwe
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:65
  17. The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected socially vulnerable communities. Some individuals experience persistent symptoms and conditions of COVID-19 illness known as long COVID. As little research...

    Authors: Soomin Ryu, Kristi L. Allgood, Yanmei Xie, Robert C. Orellana and Nancy L. Fleischer
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:64
  18. The COVID-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented worldwide challenge to public health and the economy. However, the effect varied in different population groups and locations. This study examines how the preex...

    Authors: Aindrila Chakraborty and Jaymeen Shah
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:63
  19. Eastern Mediterranean countries, particularly Lebanon, have seen a significant rise in mental disorders, primarily driven by ongoing economic instability, political unrest, and regional conflicts. These condit...

    Authors: Melyssa Assaf, Diana Malaeb, Fouad Sakr, Mariam Dabbous, Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Souheil Hallit and Sahar Obeid
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:62
  20. The community health workers (CHWs)-led model is an important strategy for managing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in China. However, existing community-based dietary and health education interventions in dia...

    Authors: Jinhua Chen, Lixia Lv, Xinyi Zhao, Yan Liu, Shaozheng Zhong, Gu Yu, Yijun Wang, Chunyan Yang, Jun Chen, Yongzhen Ye, Shuqin Zeng, Honglin Luo, Danyao Zhang, Yuelei Wu and Shuyi Liu
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:61
  21. The study aim was to investigate implementation of safety-related statutory information for herbal products under the pharmaceutical legislation between 1965 and 2021 in Finland. The study period covered Finla...

    Authors: Sari M. Koski, Anna Hietikko, Marja Airaksinen and Pirjo Laitinen-Parkkonen
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:60
  22. The CDC National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) lifestyle change program is a nationwide initiative to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes in adults with prediabetes. The CDC recognition ...

    Authors: Taynara Formagini, Ariba Rezwan, Daphnee Rodriguez, Maya Venkataramani, Matthew James O’Brien, Elva Arredondo and Boon Peng Ng
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:57
  23. Policies in the fields of health and long-term care are constantly under pressure to ensure the balance between economic stability and an adequate quality of life for all the citizens in need, while policy mak...

    Authors: Mihaela Ghența, Aniela Matei, Franziska Rothe, Marja Aartsen and Iuliana Precupetu
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:56
  24. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is essential for promoting health worldwide. Despite governmental support, TCM faces critical challenges, including workforce shortages and high attrition rates, with many cl...

    Authors: Jinying Su, Yichun Gu, Jiaqi Yuan, Botao Tian, Shimeng Liu, Huaxin Yu, Yaqun Wang, Lihang Sun, Yulin Zhang and Da He
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:54
  25. The article addresses two paradoxes related to the vaccination of women in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first paradox lies in the fact that, though women tend to be more concerned about health iss...

    Authors: Libia Santos-Requejo and Obdulia María Torres-González
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:53
  26. In many healthcare contexts globally, where the languages of care providers and service users do not match, miscommunication can lead to inaccurate diagnoses and subpar treatment outcomes. The development and ...

    Authors: Annika Kreienbrinck, Saskia Hanft-Robert, Alina Ioana Forray, Asithandile Nozewu and Mike Mösko
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:52
  27. Given life satisfaction is a key component or indicator of Quality of Life (QoL), previous studies in Canada have made some attempt to analyze its main determinants at population level. However, our knowledge ...

    Authors: Nigatu Regassa Geda, Leah E. Cahill and Cindy Feng
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:51
  28. Secondary use of health data is important for public and individual health due to its potential to drive research and healthcare improvement; however, there are challenges to be managed from a socio-ethical, l...

    Authors: Tina Bedenik, Caitriona Cahir and Kathleen E. Bennett
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:50
  29. Folate is essential for DNA synthesis and cell division, particularly during pregnancy, where insufficient levels can lead to adverse outcomes like neural tube defects and preterm birth. Tobacco smoke exposure...

    Authors: Yang Bao, Cheng Huang, Peng-Qiang Wu, Jie Yan, Shu-Zhen Xiao, Chen Huang, Mao-Hua Wei and Qing-Hong Liu
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:49
  30. The COVID-19 pandemic not only disproportionately impacted the health of immigrants in the US, but led to financial disparities as well. However, few studies to date capture the experience of asylum-seeking an...

    Authors: Eilish W. Carpenter, Claude Rwaganje, Michael Kohut, Elizabeth A. Jacobs, Kathleen M. Fairfield and Gloria D. Sclar
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:48
  31. It is crucial to understand how individuals accumulate wealth over their lifespan and explain the relation with the changes in health by age cohort. This study examines wealth-to-health causality as an explana...

    Authors: Tiantian Tao, Mengru Zhan, Xin Li and Pingyu Chen
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:47
  32. During the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an intensive debate on which strategies would be most effective to minimize the negative societal impact of the pandemic. This study aimed to provid...

    Authors: Adam Hallberg, Mia Aakjaer, Katri Aaltonen, Morten Andersen, Elisabeth Pedersen, Mohammadhossein Hajiebrahimi, Hedvig Nordeng, Fredrik Nyberg, Per-Jostein Samuelsen and Björn Wettermark
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:46
  33. Armed conflict severely impacts children's health, leading to malnutrition and increased child mortality. The republic of South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 and suffered from seven-years civil ...

    Authors: Caroline de Groot, MHD Bahaa Aldin Alhaffar and Anneli Eriksson
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:45
  34. The Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) introduced a broad consent form (MII-BC) encompassing clinical, insurance, and biomaterial data, along with re-contacting options. In the emergency department (ED), out...

    Authors: Antje Fischer-Rosinský, Larissa Eienbröker, Martin Möckel, Frank Hanses, Felix Patricius Hans, Sebastian Wolfrum, Johannes Drepper, Philipp Heinrich and Anna Slagman
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:44
  35. Medical fraud and abuse represent significant global challenges in healthcare systems, resulting in financial losses estimated at 3% to 15% of total healthcare expenditures annually. These practices compromise...

    Authors: Ali Vafaee Najar, leili Alizamani, Marziye Zarqi and Elaheh Hooshmand
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:43
  36. This study aimed to estimate temporal trends in the burden of vertebral fractures (VFs) caused by falls by gender and age in China and globally from 1990 to 2021.

    Authors: Zhongjiang Lan, Changhao Liu, Haojun Wang, Yewei Wang, Shihu Kan, Yanliang Jiao and Yibin Du
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:42
  37. The amount of physical activity, sleep, and sedentary behaviour affect several age-related diseases. However, no relevant study about their associations with cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases from Eu...

    Authors: Rizwan Qaisar, M Azhar Hussain, Fabio Franzese, Asima Karim, Firdos Ahmad, Atif Awad and Shaea Ayed Alkahtani
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:41
  38. Individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM) have high tuberculosis (TB) prevalence. Currently, the incidence of DM is increasing in low and middle-income countries including Ethiopia where TB is also endemic, whic...

    Authors: Ayinalem Alemu, Getachew Seid, Getu Diriba, Michael Hailu, Biniyam Dange, Shewki Moga, Daniel Melese, Gemechu Tadesse, Solomon H Mariam, Nega Berhe and Balako Gumi
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:40
  39. Information regarding children’s exposure to tobacco smoke, posing significant risks, is usually reliant on parental reports. We aimed to adopt the scale of parental perception of children’s tobacco smoke expo...

    Authors: Seydanur Yaylaoglu and Cihad Dundar
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:39
  40. Dengue cases are on the rise in Thailand, coinciding with increases in flooding events. Studies pertaining to public knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of dengue prevention have frequently been used to ...

    Authors: Julia Crowley, Bowen Liu and Hanan Jan
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:38
  41. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed significant emotional and ethical burdens on healthcare workers (HCWs), leading to the emergence of moral injury (MI). Understanding the pooled mean and factors associated with...

    Authors: Mojtaba Jafari, Asra Nassehi, Javad Jafari and Mehdi Jafari-Oori
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:37
  42. When seeking advice on allergy prevention in early childhood (Early Childhood Allergy Prevention, ECAP), parents often turn to health and social care providers, such as paediatricians, midwives, and family cen...

    Authors: Jonas Lander, Hala Altawil, Christian Apfelbacher, Eva Maria Bitzer, Susanne Brandstetter, Barbara Fillenberg, Marius Hartmann, Christine Holmberg, Julia von Sommoggy and Marie-Luise Dierks
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:36
  43. Traditional healers play a significant role in Sub-Saharan Africa's healthcare system, but little is known about their role across the cancer care continuum in this context. Given the prevalence of patients co...

    Authors: Elizabeth F. Msoka, Sindhu Dwarampudi, Rebecca Billings, Rebecca J. Stone, Rhodes E. Mwageni, Autumn Beavers, Blandina T. Mmbaga and Lily Gutnik
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:35
  44. Globally, alarmingly high rates of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity persist. A constellation of health system and social factors contribute to this, including poor quality and barriers to accessing ...

    Authors: Ashley Gresh, Astrid Van Damme, Deborah L. Billings, Sharon Schindler Rising, Shaimaa Ibrahim, Abiola Ajibola, Ellen Chirwa, Jennyfer Don-Aki, Nastassia Donoho, Manodj Hindori, Nafisa Jiddawi, Emeka Kanebi, Esnath Kapito, Catherine Kay, Tara Kinra, Vlorian Molliqaj…
    Citation: Archives of Public Health 2025 83:34

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