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Abstract Background and objective Climate change significantly impacts human health, particularly worsening diarrhoeal disease burden in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While children under five experience the highest disease burden, climate-health relationships affect all age groups. This systematic review examined how climate change variables (temperature, precipitation, extreme weath…

Abstract Background Common mental health disorders contribute to global disability, yet improving mental health outcomes is rarely a goal of nutrition policy. There is emerging evidence that links food insecurity, diet quality, ultra-processed foods, and microbiota-gut-brain pathways with mental health. This policy document analysis examined how evidence on the relationship between diet and menta…

Abstract This article critically examines uranium mining as a global public and environmental health crisis, rather than merely a technical or industrial activity. It discusses how extractive operations produce cumulative, long-term harms ranging from radioactive exposure and ecological degradation to intergenerational health risks that fall most heavily on communities already marginalised by soc…

Alcohol dependence is often associated with various medical and psychiatric conditions, that influence overall treatment outcomes. Available evidence largely comes from single-centre epidemiological studies with no comprehensive data on comorbidity patterns among treatment-seeking populations. To examine proportion and patterns of medical and psychiatric comorbidities among treatment-seeking pati…

Heavy vehicle drivers encounter a variety of health risks due to the nature of their work. This study synthesizes evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses to examine the health challenges and potential interventions for these drivers. Using systematic review methodologies, a total of 35 systematic reviews and meta-analyses published between 2001 and 2024 were analyzed following PRISMA 2…

Pacific participants’ experience accessing and engaging in pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) education is poorly understood. Talanoa, as a research method, was used to explore the experiences of Pacific people in PR education sessions in Counties Manukau (CM) Health and to identify topics and learning tools that align with what feels important to them and their learning. Purposive sampling was used t…