Latest AI and machine learning research in public health & policy for healthcare professionals.
Gender-affirming surgery (GAS) and gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) and are evidence-based components of care that support the health and well-being of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals, with extensive evidence linking them to reduced suicidality, improved mental health, and quality of life. Whereas most studies examine isolated outcomes-often within urban populations-this re...
INTRODUCTION: Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) remains one of the most devastating complications of pediatric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Despite major advances in genetic diagnostics, cardiac imaging, and risk stratification strategies, the prevention of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in children and adolescents with HCM remains an unresolved clinical challenge. Contemporary guideline-based approac...
Adolescent cyberbullying victimization has emerged as a pressing global concern, with complex risk factors spanning across multiple ecological levels....
Routine data from healthcare are gaining importance for evidence generation. In Germany, new structures have been established in recent years to suppo...
Identification of adolescent e-cigarette use could inform prevention and intervention programming and reduce associated consequences. One way to predi...
BACKGROUND: Skin neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as cutaneous leishmaniasis, lymphatic filariasis, mycetoma, and podoconiosis affect millions ...
Acute infectious diseases, particularly lots of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), pose significant public health challenges, especially in resource-...
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to enhance patient safety, particularly in the prevention of in-hospital falls. Recent adva...
BACKGROUND: Accurately mapping social and risk networks is critical for understanding and controlling infectious disease transmission, especially amon...
BACKGROUND: Dengue transmission in Indonesia is shaped by interacting climatic, environmental, and socio-demographic factors, yet most forecasting sys...
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have emerged as important tools for quantifying inherited susceptibility to cancer, and are increasingly combined with env...
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death worldwide, while the rise of electronic nicotine products has sparked a ...
The recurrent outbreak of viral pathogens and the possibility of the new pandemics demand the transition to the predictive and integrative computation...
BACKGROUND: Cardiometabolic multimorbidity (CMM) poses a growing global health burden, yet few studies have combined the Triglyceride-Glucose (TyG) in...
BACKGROUND: Dengue risk is increasingly shaped by climate change and rapid urbanization, yet comprehensive, multidimensional risk assessments grounded...
PURPOSE: To evaluate the feasibility and diagnostic performance of ultra-low-dose CT (ULD-CT) for screening malignant metastasis using super-resolutio...
In the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used as medical reasoning agents. However, the risk of...
Heart failure (HF) remains a major global health challenge, characterized by high morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs despite substantial advan...
Policymakers are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support legislative decision-making, yet there is limited empirical under...
Insurance fraud detection remains challenging to predict in reality because claims data is often uneven among classes, and the information concerning ...