Public's perception of policies reducing tobacco availability by regulating the tobacco retail environment: A case study in Egypt.

Introduction: The tobacco industry presence in the retail environment ensures its access to current and potential tobacco users. Reduction of tobacco retail is an emerging tobacco control measure. Many policies that would potentially lead to reduction in retail are not covered by international tobacco laws and are individually adopted in some jurisdictions.

War and peace in public health education and training: a scoping review.

Background: Armed conflict and war are public health disasters. Public health action has a crucial role in conflict-related emergencies and rehabilitation but also in war prevention and peace promotion. Translating this into public health training and competencies has just started to emerge, especially in Europe.

Capacity building in migration and health in higher education: lessons from five European countries.

Capacity building in migration and health in higher education is key to better, sustainable, and equitable health care provision. However, developments so far have been patchy, non-structural, and often unsustainable. While training programs have been evaluated and competency standards developed, perspectives from individual teachers are hardly accessible.

What Self-Management Skills Do Turkish Caregivers Have in Caring for People with Dementia? Results of a Qualitative Survey.

Family caregivers can be overwhelmed by the care they provide within the family without external support. The development of self-management skills and the associated ability to actively and responsibly manage one's own health or illness situation therefore plays a vital role in the home care of people living with dementia. As part of an individualized intervention for family caregivers of people of Turkish origin with dementia, existing self-management skills were examined through qualitative interviews to gain insight into health literacy and empowerment in caregiving and in interviewees' own practices to maintain their health.

Factors Facilitating and Inhibiting the Implementation of Telerehabilitation-A Scoping Review.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, telerehabilitation has become increasingly important worldwide. While the effectiveness of telerehabilitation is considered proven for many indications, there is comparatively little knowledge about the implementation conditions. Therefore, this scoping review summarises the current state of facilitating and inhibiting factors that may influence the uptake of telerehabilitation.

Barriers and drivers to COVID-19 vaccination among the migrant and non-migrant population in Germany, 2021.

Background: During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, immunization programmes struggled to reach all population groups equally. While migrant groups face multiple barriers to health systems, including vaccination, little is known about their vaccine uptake.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional telephone survey on adults with and without migration history in Germany to investigate barriers and drivers to COVID-19 vaccination (11 April 2021 to 18 December 2021).

Prevention of War: A Scoping Review on Primary Preventive Measures in Public Health.

Wars and armed conflicts have a major impact on population health. As the discipline of public health aims to increase the health at population level, professionals play a significant role in dealing with war and armed conflict. There is need for research on prevention.

A critical review: developing a birth integrity framework for epidemiological studies through meta-ethnography.

Over the past decade, there has been growing evidence that women worldwide experience sub-standard care during facility-based childbirth. With this critical review, we synthesize concepts and measurement approaches used to assess maternity care conditions and provision, birth experiences and perceptions in epidemiological, quantitative research studies (e.g.

[Self-help measures as determinants of emergency department utilization among people with and without a migration history in Germany].

Introduction: We analyzed whether there were differences between people with and without migration history in their implementation of self-help measures before they accessed the services of an emergency department and if there was an association between self-help measures and an appropriate utilization of emergency departments.

Methods: The data basis of this secondary analysis is the EUMaR study, which was conducted from July 2018 to July 2019 and aimed to identify causes contributing to inappropriate and frequent use of emergency departments by migrants. Our study aimed to analyze the differences in self-help measures carried out by the population groups using several multiple logistic regressions.

Type of Refugee Accommodation and Health of Residents: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Cluster Analysis in South-West Germany.

Few studies have assessed whether refugees' health is associated with accommodation characteristics. We aimed to devise a typology of refugee accommodation based on variables on the accommodation and its physical context before assessing its association with health in multivariate analyses. We performed a cluster analysis based on a hierarchal, agglomerative clustering algorithm using Euclidean Distance and Ward's method.

[Supporting rehabilitation facilities in implementing diversity-sensitive care: Development of the DiversityKAT manual].

Background: Expectations regarding health care including rehabilitation differ depending on age, gender, and also the migration history of the patient population. To meet the diverse expectations, health care needs to be diversity-sensitive, which can have a positive effect on the utilization and outcomes of care. Diversity-sensitive care, however, should take into consideration not only the expectations of diverse patient groups but also the opportunities and challenges offered by diversity of staff.

[Othering in the context of migration: how Others emerge from social categories].

'Migrants' and 'refugees' are often categorized as Other, in a process called Othering. Using the example of forced migration, we develop a definition of Othering to make it useful for the analysis of health inequalities. We consider Othering as a social process that constructs and classifies differences in such a way that certain groups become socially visible as essential Others.

[Life course epidemiology in migrant health research].

From free choice to forced flight, there are many reasons for migration. Accordingly, the backgrounds and living conditions of migrating people are also diverse. The different associated exposures affect the health of migrants and their children.

Operationalising masculinities in theories and practices of gender-transformative health interventions: a scoping review.

Gender-transformative health interventions that involve men and boys are gaining global reach, adaptability to specific geographical, population and epidemiological contexts, public endorsement, and conceptual sophistication. However, the ways in which masculinities are conceptualised and operationalised in theory and practice across these interventions remains unclear. The purpose of this scoping review is to map intervention studies that conceptually grapple with masculinities and analyse: a) how the concept of masculinities is adapted and operationalised in gender-transformative interventions, with respect to intervention population and context, b) what the relationship between the concept of masculinities and its wider theoretical embedding is, and c) on which levels transformation can be observed when working with 'masculinities'.

[Consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic: Are there risk groups for reduced subjective well-being after the first lockdown?].

Background: Measures to contain COVID-19 have created burdens that have widened health inequalities. We examine the extent to which risk groups for reduced subjective well-being can be identified after the 2020 lockdown. In doing so, we also consider possible interactions of different social grouping characteristics as part of an intersectional approach.

Exploring the Significance of Legal Status on Refugees' and Asylum Seekers' Access to Health Care in Germany-A Mixed-Method Study.

The study aims to investigate the significance of legal status for well-being and access to and use of needs-based health care by asylum seekers and refugees in Germany. Using a mixed-method-design, we first conducted a cross-sectional study to explore access to health care and unmet needs of refugees and asylum seekers and legal status. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics.

Associations between postmigration living situation and symptoms of common mental disorders in adult refugees in Europe: updating systematic review from 2015 onwards.

Background: Refugees and asylum seekers have a high prevalence of psychiatric disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression. The postmigration context inheres different risk and protective factors for mental health of refugees and asylum seekers in host countries. We conducted a systematic review to update knowledge on the association between characteristics of the postmigration living situation (PMLS) and mental health outcomes in Europe since 2015.

Polio-philanthropy in Africa: A narrative review.

Background And Aim: Polio eradication efforts including polio-philanthropy have been coordinated and sustained since 1988, with the introduction of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). The polio fight is sustained in the name of evidence-based benevolence or beneficent philanthropy from which Africa has benefited immensely. With the recorded polio cases as of 2023, more efforts and funds are required to eradicate polio.

Psychosocial Attributes of Housing and Their Relationship With Health Among Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Populations in High-Income Countries: Systematic Review.

Housing as a social determinant of health should provide not only shelter, but also a feeling of home. We explored psychosocial pathways creating a sense of home and influencing the relationship between housing and health among asylum seekers and refugees (ASR) in high-income countries. We performed a systematic review.