The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on non-COVID-associated mortality: A descriptive longitudinal study of UK data.

Background: It has been previously reported in the literature that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in overall excess deaths and an increase in non-COVID deaths during the pandemic period.Specifically, our research elucidates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on non-COVID associated mortality.

Study Aim: To compare mortality rates in non-COVID conditions before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales.

Pertussis immunisation strategies to optimise infant pertussis control: A narrative systematic review.

Objective: Countries routinely offering acellular pertussis vaccine, where long-term protection is not sustained, have the challenge of selecting an optimal schedule to minimise disease among young infants. We conducted a narrative systematic review and synthesis of information to evaluate different pertussis immunisation strategies at controlling pertussis disease, hospitalisation, deaths, and vaccine effectiveness among young infants.

Methods: We conducted a review of the literature on studies about the primary, booster, and/or maternal vaccination series and synthesised findings narratively.

The relationship between Quality and Outcomes Framework scores and socioeconomic deprivation: a longitudinal study.

Background: The Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a pay incentive scheme in England designed to improve and standardise general practice. QOF attainment has been used as a proxy for primary care quality in previous research.

Aim: To investigate whether there is a relationship between socioeconomic deprivation and QOF attainment in primary care in England.

A systematic review of the burden of, access to services for and perceptions of patients with overweight and obesity, in humanitarian crisis settings.

Introduction: Excess body weight causes 4 million deaths annually across the world. The number of people affected by humanitarian crises stands at a record high level with 1 in 95 people being forcibly displaced. These epidemics overlap.

Impact of national COVID-19 restrictions on incidence of notifiable communicable diseases in England: an interrupted time series analysis.

Background: Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), such as travel restrictions, social distancing and isolation policies, aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19 may have reduced transmission of other endemic communicable diseases, such as measles, mumps and meningitis in England.

Methods: An interrupted time series analysis was conducted to examine whether NPIs was associated with trends in endemic communicable diseases, using weekly reported cases of seven notifiable communicable diseases (food poisoning, measles, meningitis, mumps, scarlet fever and pertussis) between 02/01/2017 to 02/01/2021 for England.

Results: Following the introduction of COVID-19 restrictions, there was an 81.