JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Optimizing sentinel surveillance site allocation for early pathogen detection remains a challenge, particularly in ensuring coverage of vulnerable and underserved populations.

Black cisgender women (BCW) account for 2% of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)-eligible people in the United States who use PrEP to prevent HIV. In correlation with low PrEP use, BCW continue to contract HIV more than women from every other racial group. Intervention efforts that can bridge the link between knowing that PrEP prevents HIV and support with access to PrEP are necessary for BCW.

Adoption of eHealth accelerated during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Inequalities in adoption of eHealth during the COVID-19 pandemic have been reported, but there are few such studies among people with impairment.

Immunization is a cost-effective way to prevent infectious diseases in children, but parental hesitancy leads to low vaccination rates, leaving children at risk. Caregivers of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) are more hesitant about vaccines than those of healthy children.

Emerging pathogens and zoonotic spillover highlight the need for One Health surveillance to detect outbreaks as early as possible. Participatory surveillance empowers communities to collect data at the source on the health of animals, people, and the environment. Technological advances increase the use and scope of these systems. This initiative sought to collate information from active participatory surveillance systems to better understand parameters collected across the One Health spectrum.

To address the challenges of population ageing, WHO has made a great effort to promote Age-Friendly Communities Initiatives(AFCIs). Previous researches discussed the construction of Age-Friendly Communities(AFCs) in urban cities, evaluating AFCs often rooted on the WHO’s Checklist and focused on a single subject, namely older adults, which ignored the initiative of community residents in other age groups.

Infectious diseases (ID) have a significant detrimental impact on global health. Timely and accurate infectious disease forecasting can result in more informed implementation of control measures and prevention policies.

Cervical cancer remains a major global health issue. Personalized, data-driven cervical cancer prevention (CCP) strategies tailored to phenotypic profiles may improve prevention and reduce disease burden.

Young men who have sex with men (YMSM) have a higher risk of HIV infection. However, the evidence of HIV incidence from a large cohort was limited in this key population, especially among Chinese YMSM.

Well-designed public health messages can help people make informed choices, while poorly designed messages or persuasive messages can confuse, lead to poorly informed decisions, and diminish trust in health authorities and research. Communicating uncertainties to the public about the results of health research is challenging, necessitating research on effective ways to disseminate this important aspect of randomized trials.

Increased ageing and accelerated urbanization have led to the migration of older adults in China. The migration older adults (MOA) suffered physical and psychological discomfort in influx cities, and they are a vulnerable group that has emerged in the course of fast urbanization. Previous studies have confirmed the association between oral health and loneliness as well as the relationship between social support and loneliness; however, no research has been done to clarify the underlying mechanisms and the migrant-local difference between oral health, social support and loneliness.

COVID-19 has caused over 46,000 deaths in New York City, with a disproportional impact on certain communities. As part of the COVID-19 response, the city has directly administered over six million COVID-19 tests (not including millions of indirectly administered tests not covered in this analysis), at no cost to the individual, resulting in nearly half a million positive results. Given that testing throughout the pandemic has tended to be higher in more affluent areas, these tests were targeted to areas with fewer resources.