JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Long COVID affects millions worldwide, straining health systems and workforce stability; among civil servants, prolonged illness threatens essential services. This first nationwide survey among French civil servants combines epidemiological assessment with a Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors approach. Long COVID remains a diagnostic and epidemiological challenge in the general population with evolving symptoms and uncertain categorization, particularly among self-suspected cases. Beyond prevalence and risk factors, understanding behavioral dimensions is essential to develop prevention strategies and maintain the workforce resilience.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a critical time for public health and though dashboards remained a source of critical health information for decision makers, key gaps in equity-based decision support were revealed. The Dashboard Instrument to Review Equity (DIRE) Framework and Checklist tool was developed to be a practical tool for public health departments to use in evaluating equity-based decision support mechanisms in their dashboards.

Although RSV membrane protein F has become one of the major target proteins for RSV vaccine development, and previous studies have identified safety issues with RSV vaccines in older adults, the causes of these issues are still unclear so far.

In 2012, the country of Georgia established an electronic integrated disease surveillance system (EIDSS) for acute hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. All medical facilities must report laboratory-confirmed acute HBV cases to the regional public health centres (PHCs) within 24 hours, which are subsequently registered in EIDSS.

Men who have sex with men (MSM) face a disproportionately high risk of mpox infection, and China has recently experienced a rapid increase in the reported cases. This population also has a high prevalence of HIV, which has been identified as a critical factor in understanding the vulnerability to mpox. In addition, metabolic diseases frequently co-occur with HIV and share immunometabolic pathways, raising concerns that they may interact to confer additional risk of mpox infection.

As a high tuberculosis (TB) burden area in China, Dazu District of Chongqing Municipality contains a large rural population and exhibits typical features of TB endemicity.

Long-term follow-up studies investigating the relationship between ambient air pollution and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) in rural Chinese populations remain limited.

Traditional infectious disease surveillance systems face significant limitations, including delayed detection, underreporting of asymptomatic cases, and inequitable healthcare access. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), enhanced with genomic analysis, offers a non-invasive and cost-effective alternative for early pathogen detection and variant characterization, particularly valuable for monitoring international disease transmission.

The relationship between indoor temperature level and mental health is becoming increasingly important as climate change leads to extreme temperature fluctuations. Older adults are particularly vulnerable to indoor temperature changes because of their diminished ability to regulate body temperature and extended time spent indoors.

Despite the wide variety of studies that have focused on the recent COVID-19 infodemic, defining health mis- or disinformation remains a challenge due to the dynamic nature of the social media ecosystem and, in particular, the different terminologies from different fields of knowledge.

In response to the early spread of COVID-19 in Lebanon, the University of Balamand developed the Hayati application, a community-focused, GIS-based digital health platform aimed at enhancing public health surveillance. At the time, while the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health utilized centralized dashboards to report confirmed cases and monitor national trends, no interactive tool existed to engage the public directly in real-time risk assessment and surveillance, especially in underserved regions.

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected the mental health of older adults, particularly through increased loneliness and psychological distress. While various contributing factors have been studied, the role of preferred solitude as a potential predictor and mediator remains poorly understood.