Gu, Jie Xu, Yiyuan Yuan, Jiao Chen, Yuxiang Luo, Jingxia Guo, Cui Zhang, Guanbin
Published in
JMIR public health and surveillance
Hepatitis B poses a significant global public health challenge, with mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) being the primary method of hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission. The prevalence of HBV infection in China is the highest in Asia, and it carries the greatest burden globally. This study aims to critically evaluate the existing local strategies ...
Chen, Yang Jin, Xingsheng Chen, Guochong Wang, Ru Tian, Haili
Published in
JMIR public health and surveillance
Diabetes, a chronic condition affecting various organs, is frequently associated with abnormal lipid metabolism, notably increased cholesterol and triglyceride levels. These lipid abnormalities are closely linked to the development and advancement of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although regular physical activity (PA) has consistently shown benefi...
McDonough, Catherine Li, Yan Chak Vangeepuram, Nita Liu, Bian Pandey, Gaurav
Published in
JMIR public health and surveillance
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and pre-diabetes mellitus (pre-DM) has been increasing among youth in recent decades in the United States, prompting an urgent need for understanding and identifying their associated risk factors. Such efforts, however, have been hindered by the lack of easily accessible youth pre-DM/DM data. We aimed...
Rieckmann, Andreas Nielsen, Sebastian Dworzynski, Piotr Amini, Heresh Mogensen, Søren Wengel Silva, Isaquel Bartolomeu Chang, Angela Y Arah, Onyebuchi A Samek, Wojciech Rod, Naja Hulvej
...
Published in
JMIR public health and surveillance
The decline in global child mortality is an important public health achievement, yet child mortality remains disproportionally high in many low-income countries like Guinea-Bissau. The persisting high mortality rates necessitate targeted research to identify vulnerable subgroups of children and formulate effective interventions. This study aimed to...
Kumwichar, Ponlagrit Poonsiri, Chittawan Botwright, Siobhan Sirichumroonwit, Natchalaikorn Loharjun, Bootsakorn Thawillarp, Supharerk Cheewaruangroj, Nontawit Chokchaisiripakdee, Amorn Teerawattananon, Yot Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi
...
Published in
JMIR public health and surveillance
The durability of heterologous COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) has been primarily studied in high-income countries, while evaluation of heterologous vaccine policies in low- and middle-income countries remains limited. We aimed to evaluate the duration during which the VE of heterologous COVID-19 vaccine regimens in mitigating serious outcomes,...
Liu, Yuanhua Yin, Yun Ward, Michael P Li, Ke Chen, Yue Duan, Mengwei Wong, Paulina P Y Hong, Jie Huang, Jiaqi Shi, Jin
...
Published in
JMIR public health and surveillance
COVID-19 screening is an effective nonpharmaceutical intervention for identifying infected individuals and interrupting viral transmission. However, questions have been raised regarding its effectiveness in controlling the spread of novel variants and its high socioeconomic costs. Therefore, the optimization of COVID-19 screening strategies has att...
Su, Shu Jia, Meng Yu, Yingni Li, Hu Yin, Wenwei Lu, Yi Huang, Rongzhong Xiang, Rong Huang, Huizhe Hu, Peng
...
Published in
JMIR public health and surveillance
The worldwide spread of monkeypox (mpox) has witnessed a significant increase, particularly in nonendemic countries. We aimed to investigate the changing clinical symptoms associated with mpox from 1970 to 2023 and explore their interrelations. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, 3 electronic databases were searched for English peer-review...
Mahmood, Bushra Adu, Prince McKee, Geoffrey Bharmal, Aamir Wilton, James Janjua, Naveed Zafar
Published in
JMIR public health and surveillance
Racialized populations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Higher vaccine hesitancy has been reported among racial and ethnic minorities in some of these countries. In the United Kingdom, for example, higher vaccine hesitancy has been observed among the South Asian population and B...
Macaluso, Maurizio Rothenberg, Marc E Ferkol, Thomas Kuhnell, Pierce Kaminski, Henry J Kimberlin, David W Benatar, Michael Chehade, Mirna
Published in
JMIR public health and surveillance
With more than 103 million cases and 1.1 million deaths, the COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating consequences for the health system and the well-being of the entire US population. The Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network funded by the National Institutes of Health was strategically positioned to study the impact of the pandemic on the large, v...
Wai, Abraham Ka-Chung Yip, Tsz Fung Wong, Yui Hang Chu, Chun Kit Lee, Teddy Yu, Ken Hung On So, Wang Leong Wong, Janet Y H Wong, Carlos King-Ho Ho, Joshua W
...
Published in
JMIR public health and surveillance
Health care avoidance in the COVID-19 pandemic has been widely reported. Yet few studies have investigated the dynamics of hospital avoidance behavior during pandemic waves and inferred its impact on excess non-COVID-19 deaths. This study aimed to measure the impact of hospital avoidance on excess non-COVID-19 deaths in public hospitals in Hong Kon...
