Public Health

Population health, policy and the data behind prevention.

Food Insecurity and Mental Health in South Africa Linked in New Survey

A national South African survey found food insecurity in 37.4% of adults and strong bidirectional links with mental illness, SES, and nicotine use.

A legal and public health analysis finds major regulatory gaps in direct-to-consumer microbiome tests, raising risks of misleading…

Female community health volunteers in rural Nepal showed growing readiness to deliver tobacco cessation counseling, despite training gaps…

In Mexican primary care, later COVID-19 presentation was tied to higher mortality, but the effect weakened after accounting…

Blood-meal profiling in Tanzania found Culex mosquitoes feeding mainly on humans and non-commensal rodents, with no human-pathogenic arboviruses…

Scientists say measles transmission has persisted long enough for the US to lose elimination status again, 26 years…

State and local opioid settlement spending is fueling disputes over whether housing, addiction treatment, and homelessness services fit…

Scientists say the U.S. will lose measles elimination status again after decades, a sign of weakening immunization coverage…

The Senate Health Committee set a Nov. 18 vote on Heidi Overton’s FDA nomination as support remains uncertain…

States are using opioid settlement money for housing programs, but weak oversight leaves room for spending that may…

Public Health

Population health, policy and the data behind prevention.

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