The Lancet Public Health is a new online-only, open access title in The Lancet's growing family of specialty journals. Building on the foundation of The Lancet as a champion of public health research, this monthly journal is committed to publishing high-quality original Research Articles, Editorials, Comments, and Correspondence that contribute to advancing health equity, public health practice and policy making worldwide. The journal is indexed/abstracted in the DOAJ, MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, and in the Journal Citation Reports.
For two decades, the number of Americans who die each year from drug overdoses has steadily risen, from less than 20,000 in 1999 to more than 80,000 in 2020. By studying patterns of these drug-related fatalities, researchers ...
Jun 10, 2021
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Investigators from Trinity College Dublin, the Irish Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory, St James's Hospital, and the Department of Public Health HSE East believe tuberculosis (TB) care in Irish Prisons should be supported, ...
Jun 01, 2021
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The most comprehensive data on global trends in smoking highlight its enormous global health toll. The number of smokers worldwide has increased to 1.1 billion in 2019, with tobacco smoking causing 7.7 million deaths—including ...
May 28, 2021
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Patients may need extra encouragement to attend routine cancer screening appointments, say cancer experts across Canada.
May 18, 2021
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Researchers from the University of Oxford, funded by the National Institute for Health (NIHR) Research Oxford Biomedical Research Center (BRC) and the Oxford Health BRC, tested the responses of a representative group of 18,885 ...
May 14, 2021
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Supporting female survivors of childhood maltreatment is critical to disrupting intergenerational abuse as new research from the University of South Australia shows a clear link between parents who have suffered abuse and ...
May 01, 2021
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A study published this week in The Lancet Public Health examines how we can use our income assistance systems to address drug use and drug-related harm.
Apr 15, 2021
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(HealthDay)—The B.1.1.7 variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is not associated with more severe illness or death but leads to higher viral load and is associated with increased R1, according ...
Apr 14, 2021
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Two new studies, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and The Lancet Public Health, found no evidence that people with the B.1.1.7. variant experience worse symptoms or a heightened risk of developing long COVID compared ...
Apr 13, 2021
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Homelessness and unstable housing are associated with a substantial increase in HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) acquisition risk among people who inject drugs, according to research led by the NIHR Health Protection Research ...
Mar 29, 2021
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